| Connor McDavid- Dear Canada (The Player's Tribune) [message #849969] |
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 Skookum Jim
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Registered: March 2006
Location: Burnaby, BC
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Just out on Players Tribune..
McDavid talks about Olympics, Oilers, Edmonton
Must read.
Love this guy
https://www.theplayerstribune.com/connor-mcdavid-nhl-hockey- canada-edmonton-oilers
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All I want to do is win. It’s all we think about in our room. It’s all we talk about in the offseason. It’s why I get up every morning. It’s why I’ve stayed in Edmonton for more than a decade.
It’s funny, I get this one question all the time now….
“Connor, do you think about your legacy?”
I’m 11 years into my career. Of course I think about my legacy.
I want to be remembered as a winner.
But not just anywhere. Here. To be in this city during a Cup run, to feel that buzz … it just wouldn’t be the same somewhere else.
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.. I just want to be in Edmonton, playing hockey.
I want to get back there again, whatever it takes.
If that sounds like a robot, then I guess I’m a robot.
But I see it differently.
It doesn’t feel like work to me.
It’s just the game that I love.
Ever since I was a little kid, it’s been the same feeling….
It’s like every time you step onto a fresh sheet of ice, even if it’s at 5 o’clock in the morning, you’re just so excited for that Zamboni to come off and for that barn door to swing open so you can hop out onto the ice..
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PS.. In it he said he played lacrosse.. which backs my hypothesis that most of the greatest NHL players played both sports.. super complimentary skills.. finding open space offensively is a lacrosse art form.
[Updated on: Mon, 02 February 2026 17:35]
McDAVID! Oh YEAH Baby!! (Thank you Lord!)
Tic-Tac-Tao!
Keep on Rockin' in the Free World
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Skookum Jim
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[Updated on: Mon, 02 February 2026 20:57]
McDAVID! Oh YEAH Baby!! (Thank you Lord!)
Tic-Tac-Tao!
Keep on Rockin' in the Free World
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Skookum Jim
Messages: 5729
Registered: March 2006
Location: Burnaby, BC
5 Cups
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McDAVID! Oh YEAH Baby!! (Thank you Lord!)
Tic-Tac-Tao!
Keep on Rockin' in the Free World
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Skookum Jim
Messages: 5729
Registered: March 2006
Location: Burnaby, BC
5 Cups
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McDAVID! Oh YEAH Baby!! (Thank you Lord!)
Tic-Tac-Tao!
Keep on Rockin' in the Free World
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Skookum Jim
Messages: 5729
Registered: March 2006
Location: Burnaby, BC
5 Cups
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McDAVID! Oh YEAH Baby!! (Thank you Lord!)
Tic-Tac-Tao!
Keep on Rockin' in the Free World
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Skookum Jim
Messages: 5729
Registered: March 2006
Location: Burnaby, BC
5 Cups
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McDAVID! Oh YEAH Baby!! (Thank you Lord!)
Tic-Tac-Tao!
Keep on Rockin' in the Free World
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Kr55
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Registered: May 2002
Location: Edmonton
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Well, geez. Sure sounds like he's itching to run off to Toronto!! 
We're all so lucky to get to watch this guy in an Oilers jersey.
Man I hope our management finds a way to actually build a proper team around him that can get the job done.
"We need to get better immediately. That starts today"
- Lowe, 2013
"Next year I would forecast as another developmental year"
- MacT, 2015
5 x $5,000,000
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Skookum Jim
Messages: 5729
Registered: March 2006
Location: Burnaby, BC
5 Cups
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McDAVID! Oh YEAH Baby!! (Thank you Lord!)
Tic-Tac-Tao!
Keep on Rockin' in the Free World
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Skookum Jim
Messages: 5729
Registered: March 2006
Location: Burnaby, BC
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RIDER of the MUST STORM ..
McDAVID! Oh YEAH Baby!! (Thank you Lord!)
Tic-Tac-Tao!
Keep on Rockin' in the Free World
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 Rocksteady
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Registered: March 2007
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What a guy, a true icon for the team we watch and cheer for.
May they find the right pieces so he can get his cup and multiple cups with this team.
Please, for Connor's sake.
The very definition of insanity is doing the exact same thing expecting different results.
Generally Disappointed.
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