EDMONTON, Alberta -- If the Edmonton Oilers were handing out superlatives, then Ryan Nugent-Hopkins would be their (not-so) secret weapon.
Don't take just anyone's word for it, though. It's the sort of distinction only a team's captain -- and arguably the NHL's best player -- can hand out in a statement that seemed to reverberate among those following the Oilers' playoff run.
"He's our Swiss Army knife," Connor McDavid said of Nugent-Hopkins after the Oilers' 6-1 drubbing of the Dallas Stars in Game 3 of the Western Conference finals on Sunday.