Connor McDavid

For the fancy stats set, McDavid's Corsi (62.38%), Fenwick (62.09%), shots for (62.43%) and high-danger goals (72.03%) numbers were all career highs this season ...

He posted that number in both Games 1 and 2 versus the Kings. He can still do that too, remember, blazing through the Kings on a solo rush that elicits video game references. He had watched his team get outscored 8-1 in two games coming out of the All-Star break, then fired a coach mid-season for the first time in his 25 years as a manager. Quietly, McDavid has been carrying Jesse Puljujarvi without visible complaint, the kind of thing a true leader does. The Oilers captain has been plus-23 in the 37 games since. Today, McDavid is a human zone entry on the power play. We won lots of games in the first (quarter), we were scoring five goals to win. Well, McDavid has clearly made it a mission to round out his game. That’s right, at age 25, McDavid is playing the best hockey of his life in this very moment, a statement we do not make lightly. For his first six seasons in Edmonton, McDavid put up 1.41 points per game and went a collective plus-64. But as we watched him tune in Kings defencemen on Wednesday night, it brought to bear how far his overall game has come. But there was McDavid early in Game 2, running defenceman Mikey Anderson through the boards from behind, an immediate look of guilt on his face that Messier would never have let slip.