Sherry Bassin sees the intense look on Connor McDavid's face during warmups and knows the best hockey player in the world is going to have one of those games.
He noticed it before the clinching game that sent the Edmonton Oilers to the Stanley Cup Final, when McDavid scored less than five minutes in and set up another goal not long after. That ability to take over started long ago, before he reached the pinnacle of the sport, and Bassin saw it up close as owner of the Ontario Hockey League's Erie Otters when McDavid played there.