Oilers sing the 3-1 Blues in season opener

I haven’t been around an 18-year-old who has had to deal with that. For the Edmonton Oilers, that future is centered entirely around Connor McDavid, who is possibly the best first overall draft pick since Sidney Crosby.

In the mid-to-late 1980s, an National Hockey League fan’s day often started with a survey of the scoring summaries in the morning newspaper to see how many points Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux had racked up the night before.

“The Blues are tough, and this is a hard place to play”. As Davidson continued to build his dream of being an NHLer, that dream almost turned into a nightmare as he would battle and beat testicular cancer in his first professional season in Oklahoma City. In 57 games with the New York Rangers spanning the last two seasons, Talbot compiled a 33-15-5 record with.

“The work ain’t over yet”.

That’s what I see in McDavid and Eichel – the imaginative thinking and the molten drive to be the best.

“I came off the bench and saw the play there and I wasn’t sure if he saw or heard me”, Fabbri said. “Being a physical contributor helped me as well”. From a coaching standpoint, he might have played it too safe. The 6-foot-2, 215 pound left-shooting defencmen uses his big frame to box out opponents to win puck battles, takes the body and fill shooting lanes.

Oilers coach Todd McLellan, hired in May after spending seven seasons with the San Jose Sharks, has already gotten accustomed to receiving questions about McDavid. And with good reason: The future of the game will be on display this Sunday evening. Reinhart and partner Eric Gryba combined to give the coaching staff a solid third pairing option and to their credit, McLellan and company used it to their advantage…limiting the workload of Mark Fayne, Oscar Klefbom, Justin Schultz, and Andrej Sekera. I hope he’s up to the challenge. I was just trying to get it out of the zone short-handed. Out is former GM Craig MacTavish and in is new GM Peter Chiarelli who jettisoned struggling players like goalie Ben Scrivens and Nikita Nikitin who were waive despite hefty contracts.

Fellow rookie Robby Fabbri scored what proved to be the eventual game-winner midway through the third period, as the Oilers dropped their season opener 3-1 to the reigning Central Division winners. Lindros was the National Hockey League MVP in his third season, but the Flyers were swept by Detroit in their only Finals appearance with him.

“I didn’t need to look I knew it was going in”, laughed Pietrangelo. This is going to be RNH’s story all year, I believe. The No. 1 and No. 2 draft picks of 2015, one a Canadian and the other an American. “I’ve never had a player whose arrival has been anticipated like this and things have changed even since then”.

Raised in the Toronto suburbs, McDavid received special permission to enter the OHL as a 15-year-old and became the circuit’s most dominant player. He has the skill, the character and the leadership. “He can defend. He can play your power play, very versatile”. “With all the new adjustments we’ve made, things should go well”. The only goal Nashville has surrendered in two outings this year came when the Carolina Hurricanes had a sixth attacker on the ice late in the Predators’ 2-1 victory earlier in the week. It has been a general black and white with how he wants his defencemen to play.