The boy looked like Justin Bieber; howbeit, even in Bieber’s native Canada, he was such a hockey wunderkind, some surely said that it was Bieber who looked like the boy.
His bangs swooped across his forehead like a teenage pop star’s, or an SEC quarterback’s, and his baby face asserted that the only blades he’d ever need were on his feet.
“Hi, my name is Connor McDavid,” he said to the camera. “I play for the Toronto Marlies.”
This was nearly five years ago. He was 15, weighed 155 pounds. He played for the Toronto Marlboros’ Minor Midget team.