During the first game of the OHL semifinal series, Connor McDavid tested Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds goalie Brandon Halverson blocker side on a breakaway and was thwarted.
As they say in the TV highlights business, that would lead to this: McDavid scoring a short-handed breakaway goal with the one-handed Kent Nilsson/Peter Forsberg/Pavel Datsyuk shootout move during the Greyhounds-Erie Otters playoff game on Sunday. After Nick Baptiste cleared the puck high out of the Otters zone, McDavid zoomed past flat-footed defenceman Gustav Bouramann, then plotted how to freeze Halverson.
That was pretty, eh?
No wonder Sportsnet, which typically doesn't go to the Canadian Hockey League's nine U.