McDavid, Weber, Marchessault named NHL’s three stars for October

The Leafs recalled RW Nikita Soshnikov from the Toronto Marlies of the American Hockey League. We seem to find a way to adapt to the system better and goaltending’s been great.

Go back a couple of generations. “Throw that in with a bunch of other kids who are playing really well.it’s exciting for both Toronto and Edmonton, not just Auston and Connor”, said Gretzky, who is serving as an NHL ambassador during the league’s centennial season and is widely regarded as the best to ever play the game.

Meanwhile, the Maple Leafs have been struggling defensively.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – Minnesota center Zac Dalpe will miss the next four to six weeks after undergoing arthroscopic surgery to fix a meniscus tear in his right knee.

It was not your typical game day morning skate at the Air Canada Centre.

Thus, expectations couldn’t be higher than when Connor McDavid and the Edmonton Oilers stepped out onto the ice at the foot of Bay Street Tuesday night.

There has been little or no contact between the McDavid and Matthews since the World Cup.

McDavid, the Oilers’ 19-year-old captain, had five goals and seven assists in nine games to power Edmonton to the top of the Pacific Division and Western Conference. He’s lived through some dark days, including the never-forgotten Game 7 loss against the Boston Bruins in the 2013 playoffs, a handful of suspensions over the past two years and a number of losing seasons to boot.

“Records are made to be broken”, said Gretzky. Game time tonight is 5pm.

Leafs coach Mike Babcock publicly prodded Kadri to work on the quality of his shot a year ago, and Kadri said he tried to address both the mechanics and release of his attempts.

“One thing that I saw watching them is that they’re way more competitive, like feisty, than people might think”, said Ferraro.

“The concern is about the team, but you get fired up”. Your future versus ours. “They’re eager to get better”.

This fall, Kadri hasn’t become an afterthought, per se. Or maybe William Nylander, who was the NHL’s rookie of the month, will have to be traded for a defenceman.

Is Kadri anybody’s idea of a third-liner? Chicago left wing Artemi Panarin, who turned 25 this week, scored 77 points in 80 games to beat out McDavid for the Calder Trophy. There wasn’t much he could do the last two games, as the Kings got shut out by the Blues, 1-0, and Blackhawks, 3-0, over the weekend. It was a strategy McDavid often laughed off and the type of play he’s probably used to seeing with his elite skill level, but it worked.

It’ll be the first time that Connor McDavid will play in his home town of Toronto. The Oilers looked unable to gain any momentum for large parts of the first half of this one, and were unable to solve Anderson along the way.

“We had so many turnovers, it was a real bad start, it was a bad period”, Julien said.

Kadri stole the show and the Leafs managed to come away with two points, despite netminder Frederik Andersen giving up a goal by Darnell Nurse in the third period that was as soft as three-ply facial tissue. “I like to score goals too”. I definitely don’t consider him a rival. Both rookies have stuck in Philadelphia, and Konecny had seven points in his first 10 games.

McLellan certainly did his best to spring McDavid loose by double-shifting him a number of times – I mean, you rarely see that in the National Hockey League nowadays – including a whopping 14 shifts and 8:07 minutes in the opening period alone.