In Oshawa, Ont., where General Motors last week announced it was going to cut another 1,000 jobs from its shrinking local operation, tickets to a junior hockey playoff series are becoming a lucrative sideline endeavour: Teenaged hockey at professional prices.
He will almost certainly be the first player taken at the draft in June. Wayne Gretzky told the Edmonton Journal that McDavid would be “the best player to come into the league in the last 30 years,” while retired goaltender Curtis Joseph told Sportsnet: “He’s never needed a coach … Just open the door.