SUNRISE, Fla. - So, the hope is that Connor McDavid will be able to do what Kevin Lowe, Craig MacTavish, Pat Quinn, Tom Renney, Steve Tambellini, Dallas Eakins, Ralph Krueger and Daryl Katz couldn’t do in nine years worth of trying.
He is supposed to do what Taylor Hall, Jordan Eberle, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Justin Schultz, Nail Yakupov and an assembly line of interchangeable parts couldn’t do combined.
He is supposed to make the Edmonton Oilers a winner. Rescue them from the National Hockey League’s cold, dark dungeon and return them to their mid-’80s greatness.
That’s all.