The Edmonton Oilers have a special, special player in Connor McDavid.
It is easy to understand that, intellectually. The numbers, the team accomplishments, the draft pedigree, all of it tells anyone who can read most of hat they need to know about a player. But according to me, it never comes completely into focus once you have seen that player, live. It is the art beyond the science. And Connor McDavid was doing the painting, at Edmonton Oilers Development Camp Monday.
I wish I did not feel the need to qualify my comments before I even start, because then I am just playing into the nay-sayers, who have already made their appearance on Edmonton’s sports talk shows this Summer.