In its entirety, last night was a great one for both Connor McDavid and the Edmonton Oilers. Another record, achieved in familiarly freakish fashion, for the former in helping the latter come from three back in the third to take a Western Conference powerhouse to an overtime period during which they ultimately prevailed. Nothing not to like about that, until you consider that the only way to factor in on 9 straight goals, spanning four full games, is to play on a team that is basically allergic to scoring without your services...
It's obviously fun to joke about the rest of the Oilers being passengers on the jets that their captain wears on his feet, but through four games three of their lines haven't exactly done anything to help navigate the turbulence of another mediocre start. Hell, if anything, they've just been pressing the panic button in hopes that their savior could successfully put it in auto-pilot while repairing whatever damage they'd done. Consider the typical ebbs and flows of an NHL game, and it's almost unfathomable that someone other than Connor McDavid hadn't accidentally banked in a puck off the ass of a teammate not named Connor McDavid until Darnell Nurse, while appearing to search desperately for Connor McDavid, hesitantly went end-to-end in bringing an end to the most bittersweet of record-breaking streaks...
We're only four games not the season, so it's entirely inconceivable that the Oilers find their footing and prove to be a bit deeper than the face of their franchise. However, for a team whose depth was in question in September, early October hasn't quite quelled any concerns. In fact, all it's really done is make sense of why Connor McDavid chose to do the previously unthinkable in ditching the cliches and publicly lending his support to the use of cannabis for pain management. You'd look for a little reefer-related relief too if you were tasked with carrying an entire organization on your back during each implausibly electric rush down the ice... "I say this more talking about the CBD side of it, obviously: You'd be stupid not to at least look into it," Edmonton Oilers captain Connor McDavid said. "When your body's sore like it is sometimes, you don't want to be taking pain stuff and taking Advil all the time. There's obviously better ways to do it. ... You're seeing a lot of smart guys look into it. You're seeing a lot of really smart doctors look into it. If all the boxes are checked there and it's safe and everything like that, then I think you would maybe hear them out." (h/t TSN)
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