What is wrong with Mcdavid?

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Your obsession with my descriptors is very flattering.

McDavid has an excuse though, so you should be all over that.

But then you would be banished from the Cult of the Penguin if you were being honest.
Are you using the same excuse you've been vehemently fighting against for the last... I don't know... three years probably ?
 
I absolutely pity you.

I'm not an Oilers fan. I'm not a Penguins fan. But I pity anyone who didn't appreciate Crosby and McDavid.

Life is short. Careers are shorter. Hating a player just means you miss out on greatness.

Buddy, this is hockey fandom.

You‘re supposed to hate opposing players.

I don’t hate Crosby, I don’t hate Auston, I don’t hate Oveckin! But as a Flames fan, you’re damn skippy I hate McDavid. I hope he never scores another goal!

The time for praise and love will be after he retires. Which I will gladly do. Just like Gretzky.
 
It’s simply not much of a story, but I’ll admit that the narrative from the detractors is getting pretty old. This make believe tale that he’s at full strength and playing like this is some of the most dishonest stuff I’ve seen from people who supposedly love following sports.

McDavid is playing hurt; it’s obvious, but the most vocal trolls who don’t watch a single shift of his games, have ammo because his season stats say 13 points in 14 games.

For the stat hounds, he has 5 pointless games in the 9 games since he has returned. He had just 7 in all 82 games last season and had a point in 59 out of his final 62 games, which was followed up with a point in all 5 games to start the season before he was injured. Yeah, he’s really fallen off a cliff for no reason; keep telling yourselves that while you’re marching in the hate parade, head-scratchingly led by the Captain.

It’s pretty clear he’s been rushed back; he probably feels it was a mutual decision at worst, because he’s still pretty young, is an elite athlete, and thinks his management cares for anything beyond ‘can he play the next game to cover up our poor decision-making?’

He was originally projected to miss at least 3-6 games. They brought him back after 2 due to desperation. Just another symptom of both short and long-term bad decision making by the Oilers, made necessary by the past, at the expense of the present and futures.

Eventually, McDavid will get healthy and rip the league to shreds again, and most of you will slink back into the shadows and safely vote the negative option in any McDavid poll, anonymously of course.

Is there a single hockey fan that dislikes McDavid? Genuinely curious.
 
I absolutely pity you.

I'm not an Oilers fan. I'm not a Penguins fan. But I pity anyone who didn't appreciate Crosby and McDavid.

Life is short. Careers are shorter. Hating a player just means you miss out on greatness.
And sports are relatively meaningless which means that not having fun with them, ie hating on players, talking trash, embracing rivalries, is a really dumb way to experience it. I disliked Ovechkin 85% of his career and I got way more enjoyment out of doing that than I would have if I was simply neutral about him. You need villains in hockey, thats how you form narratives and actually are entertained. Doesn't mean you have to be a Pejorative Slured brick wall about the facts but there's nothing to feel sorry about here.
 
it can't all be an injury. speed doesn't matter much on the powerplay and he looked like ass there yesterday and just kept giving the puck away.

Eh. If it’s something that significantly affects his hip/core/back there’s a lot more than just skating that can feel limited
 
Anyone who thinks the NHL is a men's league and don't appreciate the way he disgraces the sport with his diving, tantrums, and floating. Great player but I have no respect whatsoever for that gutless coward.

Lmfao tell us all how you reeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaally feel
 
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I used to be excited that Rantanen developed to the second best player of the 2015 draft, but McDavid's struggles during the past weeks has changed that to the best!! 😎 I enjoy that while I can.
 
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I absolutely pity you.

I'm not an Oilers fan. I'm not a Penguins fan. But I pity anyone who didn't appreciate Crosby and McDavid.

Life is short. Careers are shorter. Hating a player just means you miss out on greatness.
Same goes for Karlsson. The amount of hate he gets is just strange.
 
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