| Connor McDavid- Dear Canada (The Player's Tribune) [message #849969] |
Mon, 02 February 2026 16:44 |
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 Skookum Jim
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Registered: March 2006
Location: Burnaby, BC
5 Cups
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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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