The Edmonton Oilers will tip off against the Buffalo Sabres tonight in New York. This game will be nationally televised, as it is hyped up to be a contest that pits the two first-round draft picks of 2015 against each other. Connor McDavid and Jack Eichel will meet for the first time.
While this has been leveled up to one of the biggest games of the NHL season, McDavid had some words for the media who keep calling the two “rivals” and seeing this game as a pure comparison between the two forwards.”
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“The media has us pegged as not liking each other and being rivals, but the truth is, we don’t really know each other,” McDavid said.