Steven Stamkos thinks Connor McDavid is already better than he is without playing a single NHL game.
That’s high praise indeed, but it sounds like heresy because the Tampa Bay Lightning captain has twice won the Rocket Richard Trophy for most goals in a single NHL season.
McDavid, the first choice in the 2015 NHL draft who will play his first game with the Edmonton Oilers at the Young Stars Classic at Penticton, B.C., this weekend, was gobsmacked by Stamkos’s comment in an interview with ESPN during the NHL’s media tour Tuesday in Toronto. After all, Stamkos, the first pick in the 2008 draft, has scored 276 goals in only 492 games.