This Was By Far The Meanest Goal Of Connor McDavid's Career
Elsa. Getty Images.Connor McDavid is the nastiest hockey player on the planet. He is constantly making other ridiculously good hockey players look like complete and utter fools out there. But at no point has Connor McDavid ever come off as mean-spirited. He's just disgusting at the game of hockey, and a by-product of that is that he makes NHL defensemen look like a bunch of beer leaguers.
But this goal last night was the first time in Connor McDavid's career where he really seemed to be a dick about it. The first time he ever scored a goal that seemed like he used his powers for evil.
This had the makings of an all-time Stanley Cup Final moment from Matthew Tkachuk. The Rat King went into game 5 already making a guarantee that the Cats were going to go out and clinch the Cup. So he goes out there and makes one of the greatest desperation plays these eyes have ever seen to keep the game alive in the dying moments.
I'm not saying the Panthers would have for sure gone down and sent the game to overtime, but it would have been nice to at least see what would happen. A ridiculous desperation save at the goal line, maybe one last rush down the ice with the home crowd buzzing, anything is possible. But Connor McDavid had to be a dick about it. He doesn't care how great of a play that was by Tkachuk, he was still going to bury it anyway. Such a prick that he made Bill Zito launch his water bottle into Bolivian.
And with that goal he's now had the best 2 game stretch out of quite literally anyone to ever play in the Stanley Cup Final.
Gretzky, Lemieux, Newsy Lalonde. All guys who were just enjoying their Tuesday night and then out of nowhere, Connor McDavid has to come around and break their records. I mean it's sickening. Down 3-0 in the series and Connor McDavid decides to turn it on and have the greatest 2-game stretch the Final has ever seen to send the series back to Edmonton for a game 6. He had a goal and 3 assists in game 4 to set the single Stanley Cup Playoffs assist record. And then 2 goals and 2 assists last night, with this assist to The Worm being the filthiest of the bunch.
I'm starting to think this sick bastard just wanted to make sure this series went to 7 games so he could break the single postseason points record, and the only way that was possible was by losing the first 3.