Boston – Don't call it a torch passing. At least not around Conor McDavid.
“I think I'll see SID in 12 months,” No. 97 said. “I don't think the torch would pass. He had a great tournament, he's a big part of our group and I think you'll see him a year later.”
That's true. Aside from injuries and some sort of freak event, Sidney Crosby will almost certainly wear the “C” from Team Canada in Milan, just like he did in the last 10 days.
But it's hard for Canada to get more poetic than what things got on Thursday night at 8:18.
Crosby scored a golden goal at the 2010 Olympics. This is a single moment that defined the generation of Canadian hockey.
McDavid held a wrist shot ripped from the slot on Thursday, giving Canada a 3-2 victory in the 4 Nations face-off final against Team USA.
“Really relieved,” McDavid explained his feelings, saying. “I'm excited about our group. Honestly, everyone was really digging in. The management team went and picked a team, the coaching staff came together and obviously from the players who are doing our job. , it starts a few months and months, months in advance. This week it was a big production to put it all together.”
The NHL's return to Best on Best will give you the opportunity to write something memorable in Italy next February, but that's not the Olympics. However, Crosby's goals did not come at a time of high tensions between the US and Canada. And it wouldn't last for 11 years without the true best-on-best competition.
McDavid won the best in memory last summer when he won the rally 3-0 in the Cup final, lost game 7 and sat in the Edmonton dressing room before winning the Conn Smythe trophy It turned out to be something that was a hockey feat. I'm too distraught to gather it.
Between the world junior and world championships, McDavid has won three gold medals for Team Canada in the past, but last summer was his only shot at the Stanley Cup, and he has the opportunity to play in the Best On Best Competition There was no for his country.
Few players have spoken out more about hoping for the Best's latest return, but it hardly matters what McDavid did until he won the game. Those who return home from Boston did more to enhance his legacy.
“It means everything,” he said. “I think we saw everyone put it all on the line. Tkachuk Bros was crushing things, crushing things. Everyone – [Thomas] Harley intervenes again.
“Everyone put everything there and the world means the world to us, finding a way to accomplish that. That's what we do.”
