02-11-2026, 12:00 PM
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#5541
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Springbank
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
What makes McDavid special is not just his speed/skating - it's his ability to make plays at that speed. No one has been able to do that like he can. There's been guys that can skate like him, but they can't make plays at speed. He is the best player, ever, at that. And it's the part that makes him uniquely dangerous.
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He's elite at skating fast, handling and shooting at top speed, not getting hit while doing so and diving.
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02-11-2026, 12:16 PM
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#5542
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Franchise Player
Join Date: May 2016
Location: ATCO Field, Section 201
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
What makes McDavid special is not just his speed/skating - it's his ability to make plays at that speed. No one has been able to do that like he can. There's been guys that can skate like him, but they can't make plays at speed. He is the best player, ever, at that. And it's the part that makes him uniquely dangerous.
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100% disagree, McDavid is No Good.
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02-11-2026, 02:52 PM
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#5543
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: San Fernando Valley
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
What makes McDavid special is not just his speed/skating - it's his ability to make plays at that speed. No one has been able to do that like he can. There's been guys that can skate like him, but they can't make plays at speed. He is the best player, ever, at that. And it's the part that makes him uniquely dangerous.
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Pavel Bure comes to mind as a burner that could stick handle at top speed but he played at a time when the overall game was played slower.
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02-11-2026, 02:54 PM
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#5544
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: San Fernando Valley
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GioforPM
He's elite at skating fast, handling and shooting at top speed, not getting hit while doing so and diving.
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It's kind of surprising more players haven't been able to line him up for some big hits but it's one of those things where they fear him skating right by them if they take an aggressive angle.
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02-11-2026, 03:13 PM
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#5545
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Springbank
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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
It's kind of surprising more players haven't been able to line him up for some big hits but it's one of those things where they fear him skating right by them if they take an aggressive angle.
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I said in the last game, Bahl plays him as well as anyone. I think the big hit is too risky as you say. You look dumb if he just evades you and you slide into the boards. Bahl's huge wingspan pushed him to the outside so he just had a pass out front play, which you can handle.
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02-11-2026, 03:39 PM
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#5546
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: San Fernando Valley
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Also the league no longer has the Marchment, Cooke, Torres, Samuelsson players that were willing to go out of their way and seek to injure players. If for example Cooke played in today's NHL in the same division as McDavid I could see him going out on the ice with the sole intent to take McDavid's head off as he did with Marc Savard. The league doesn't really have those kind of players any more and is better off for it.
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02-11-2026, 04:51 PM
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#5547
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Also the league no longer has the Marchment, Cooke, Torres, Samuelsson players that were willing to go out of their way and seek to injure players.
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Which reminds me, Cal Clutterbuck probably deserves a spot on that list.
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02-11-2026, 05:00 PM
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#5548
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Springbank
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Wt
Last edited by GioforPM; 02-11-2026 at 05:02 PM.
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02-11-2026, 05:07 PM
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#5549
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Calgary, AB
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Best offensive player maybe but McDavid has a lot of holes in his game. I would take prime Crosby over prime McDavid any day of the week and twice on Sundays.
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02-11-2026, 05:13 PM
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#5550
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: The Pas, MB
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Pissy's headshot for the Olympics looks like a mugshot.
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02-11-2026, 10:36 PM
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#5551
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Vernon, BC
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Pissy looks.... Pissy.
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02-11-2026, 11:58 PM
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#5552
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2021
Location: Richmond upon Thames, London
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
What makes McDavid special is not just his speed/skating - it's his ability to make plays at that speed. No one has been able to do that like he can. There's been guys that can skate like him, but they can't make plays at speed. He is the best player, ever, at that. And it's the part that makes him uniquely dangerous.
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Did you type that without vomiting or soiling yourself?
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