TORONTO — Connor McDavid won’t bid adieu to his teenage years for another five months, but he certainly doesn’t talk or act like a kid.
Or, for that matter, play like one.
“I’m not some 18-year-old kid anymore,” declared McDavid, who must feel like a grizzled NHL veteran with the amount of life-rattling experiences he has gone through over such a short span.
Always known as a kid who flashed maturity far beyond his age, the past 19 months have brought with it a mixture of concentrated highs and lows that would have left the heads of most ordinary teens spinning with confusion.