Connor McDavid Gave Us The Assist Of The Season...But Can We Talk About Whose Fault It Was?10/20/2017
Look, the only real story here is that Connor McDavid has a freakish skill set that is unlike any the NHL has ever seen before. The sick hands and unfathomable footwork required to spin in protection of the puck at full speed before throwing a no look feed to a teammate cutting backdoor are the only things that should be focused on in this highlight. Unfortunately, far too many hockey fans insisted on displaying the suspect knowledge of the game that makes it difficult to sit within a 5 row radius of them in a stadium setting, so I feel obligated to reference the incompetence of the defense instead of just sitting back and appreciating the absurdity of the offense. Seriously, if your first instinct is to shame Duncan Keith for an attempt that was admittedly less than Norris Trophy-worthy then you need your peripheral vision checked. Not that catching up to the fastest man on two skates and staying in front of him was the best he could have done at keeping the puck out of his net, but if you think that he got taken to school then his defensive partner must have slept right through class. Now, I'm not saying that I too wouldn't find myself mesmerized into a statuesque state if the NHL equivalent of a unicorn were bearing down on me at about a billion miles per hour, but in terms of unforgivable efforts? Brent Seabrook looking like his controller's battery died is first, and - objectively speaking - there is no close second.
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