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McDavid vs. Matthews is the rivalry the NHL deserves

I know Auston Matthews is two inches taller and roughly 30 pounds heavier than Connor McDavid. I know he's roughly eight months younger than Connor McDavid. I know he has nine goals in five games this season, putting him on pace for 148 goals in the 2018-19 season, or roughly Nikita Kucherov's career total. (Alas, one assumes his 50 percent shooting percentage will have to regress to the mean at some point.) I know that I prefer Auston Matthews photoshoots to Connor McDavid photoshoots because he goes a bit more "Zoolander" and is willing to drape himself in an M.