Connor McDavid 101: Is He the Next Great One?

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4.6 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Edmonton Oilers captain Connor McDavid is having his best season yet, having already netted a pair of viral highlight goals that have broken the internet. But looking beyond the mind blowing moves and hockey accolades and comparisons to Edmonton’s last Great One, who is Connor McDavid? Emily Kaplan asks John Buccigross to give us Connor McDavid 101, and tells us why this might finally be the year the hockey megastar brings the Stanley Cup back to Edmonton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:13.5	Oilers got the matchup they wanted. Rangers having trouble changing here.
0:18.4	McDavid, beautiful move.
0:19.7	He's a.
0:40.3	Even if you're not a hockey fan, you've seen the highlights. Connor McDavid scoring what has to be the goal of the year in the NHL.
0:45.3	Until, you know, he goes out and does it again.
0:48.3	The Edmonton-Oyler Center is, quite simply, one of the most dominant athletes in sports at this moment, and fulfilling
0:55.7	his promise not just as a hockey prodigy, but as one of the game's all-time greats.
1:02.4	So today, ESPN's resident puckhead John Bucci Gras is here to explain to the hockey faithful,
1:09.1	the hockey casuals, the hockey curious, everything you need to know about the game's biggest star.
1:15.9	I'm Emily Kaplan, in for Pablo Torre.
1:18.6	It's Tuesday, November 23rd.
1:21.1	This is ESPN Daily.
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