Connor McDavid continued his remarkable playoff run with an overtime goal Thursday night to eliminate the Calgary Flames and punch the Edmonton Oilers' ticket to the Western Conference Finals.
Edmonton OilersIt just had to be Connor. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LetsGoOilers?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LetsGoOilers</a> <a href="https://t.co/HXXA3eNCIa">pic.twitter.com/HXXA3eNCIa</a>
If McDavid hadn't already established himself as the NHL's best player before this year's Stanley Cup playoffs, he's done it over the past month with 26 points (seven goals and 19 assists) in 12 postseason games to put the Oilers within eight wins of a title.
Hall of Fame winger Teemu Selanne is among those who've taken notice:
Teemu Selanneud83dudc4fud83dudc4fud83dudc4fNHL playoffs have been exactly as good as we thought, so many unbelievable games and so many great players playing ud83dudcaaud83dudcaaud83dudcaa and how good is Connor McDavid,his body language is that he is willing to win the games by himself if he has to ,by far the best player in this planetud83dude0a
Dom Luszczyszyn of The Athletic analyzed McDavid's performance before Game 5.