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The more you watch hockey, the more it slows down in a sense because you get the flow down -- like you can sense the movements and and where the puck is about to go even right before it happens. It's times where you're like 'wait...what just happened?" that you know something cool might have just happened because it doesn't match the flow you're used to.
I've played hockey for 25 years and yes, I see the possibilities they have with the puck. Pavel Datsyuk still is the only player that did some things that I didn't see coming. Magic Man was phenomenal!
I love how you put the Canadian flag up when you're watching hockey - it's the little things! And when you're watching live it's actually the easiest to follow the puck. It's a whole different experience in arena
I don't know if hockey fans truly realize how special he is. MJ, Messi, Ohtani - McDavid is the most evolved player the sport has ever seen. Once his team wins a championship or a gold medal for Canada, he'll be up on Mount Rushmore with Gretzky, Lemieux, Orr, and Howe. Thanks for the video, guys!
I've been watching hockey for decades, so I might have less difficulty seeing live what has happened. The replays on the giant screen when you attend an NHL game will show what you missed. But when I go to my nephews' high school games, we have to do it the old-fashioned way, by talking to other fans. For those of us who never played the game, what elite players can do is even more impressive when we are reminded that they are not looking down at the puck most of the time ("keep your head up, or someone will try to remove it").
Referring to number 2, Connor had broken his collarbone earlier in the season during his rookie year and that was his first game back. And also being at the game, everyone is watching the jumbotron to see how the heck he did it
The answer to your question... we watch the screen replay, the other end crowd, and the goal light. I watched Connor live last year. Fastest skater I have EVER seen live. He leaves you just shaking your head at so many things. Best player in the world bar none.
A few commenters said that the more you watch the easier it gets to understand. The trick is to not watch the puck. With McDavid it’s hard to not just stare at him
4:45 Coast to coast has been a very familiar term called in the NHL master of the Coast to Coast i could think of is Denis Savard Chicago Blackhawks star of the 80's
Play number 7 The spinorama assist to Maroon. The player he danced around was Duncan Keith. Hall Of Fame Defenseman and corner stone of 3 Hawks Championships from 2010 to 2015. Keith did everything right on that play. McDavid is truly out of this world
Hey, thanks for this, I (Damo) watched the complete game with everyone on our Discord but Nick hasn’t seen anything so we’ll probably do this one. Ps it was awesome 🔥
The goal at #1 was a very special night. Kevin Lowe who was on the great 80's Oilers teams with Gretzky was nominated to the Hockey Hall of Fame. As is tradition with the Oilers, when one of them gets into the Hall they retire their number which includes a pregame ceremony. Lowe won 5 cups with the Oilers and was one of several former Oilers who were on the Rangers 1994 cup winning team which is why they retired his number on a night they were playing the Rangers. The Oilers were down by a goal late in the third period when McDavid performed the magic that was the number one goal on this list. He then helped set up Leon Draisaitl for the overtime winner.
I don't find myself watching the puck when I go to games live, I'm watching the body language of the players. You can usually tell where the puck is because every player on the ice will be focused on it.
Conner McDavid is the one best Superstar of NHL he's seeking to led Edmonton Oilers to the 6th Stanley cup in their franchise history and first since Mark Messier Team in 1989-90 season
Always love seeing the best players achieve great things. Nick is following the Oilers, but I also wanna see him win the Stanley Cup. Appreciate the comment Erik 🙏
If you want to watch more Mcdavid highlights you guys should check out the video "Draisaitl assisting McDavid compilation". Draisaitl is the best passer in the NHL and the 2nd best player in the league behind Mcdavid and they're teammates!
Drai is a good goal scorer and good offensively but he’s nowhere close to the second best player in the league. His defense and two way game is lacking
@@Childofbhaalyou’re kidding haha he averages the 3rd highest points per game in the playoffs… In the HISTORY of the nhl. He’s definitely the closest guy to mcdavid. Only other guy is Mack who just scored his first 100 point season. You can’t compare anyone to what mcdavid and draisaitl are doing
@@33RoyCorpPorMack is good but not even the best player on his own team. Makar won the Conn Smythe and currently has more points as a defenceman. Mack has just a single 100 point season to Draisaitl’s 4 and another on the way
My gosh, this guy is an artist at work. He makes his opponents look they are playing in the wrong league. Or maybe he is just one of those rare athletes that makes the game look like he knows something the rest of the players don't. Hard to imagine that anyone is better than him. ♠
Hey Nick and Damo! You guys should react to the a video titled "He was the next generation's Michael Vick... but it went horribly wrong." Its a video about the former Redskins QB Robert Griffin III (RG3) who was a very young and talented player but was cut short because of injuries and coaching (the video will go into more detail). I think you guys would enjoy this video and it would also make my day if you guys do react to it since I am a Redskins (now Commanders) fan.
It's hard to explain, but once you've watched enough hockey you're able to see exactly whats going on. People who don't watch hockey have trouble picking it up.
This was missing his pivot spin move and then a backhander to the top corner from the hash marks. That definitely belongs in his top 10, probably top 5. Think it was last season (2022-2023)... maybe 2021-2022. And think some reel had it as the goal of the year. Or at least McDavid's greatest goal that year.
On his way up he played for my local minor league team the Erie Otters, leaving in 2015. To this day, almost a decade later, they still sell merch that simply reads “Connor McDavid was an Erie Otter”.
When you watch something enough, you can fill in the Blanks, Some plays Especially McDavids always require 2 or 3 looks to full understand what happened.
This is Auburn vs LSU week. One of the most insane games in the history of college football took place in 1994. Take 30 minutes and look at the game, you won't regret it. Use the you tube video that is 27:16, the announcers add to it. I won't bother you again with this, your decision....
Tbh, it's way easier to track the puck when you're there live. The slow motion replays at the stadium do help though for getting some better angles. But the TV will never do a live game justice, it's just too fast. McDavid's stick handling will always be hard to track, though.
Yes guys! another lovely reaction! Thank you and please keep enjoying hockey, oh yah and please please watch the highlights from this up and coming season, the Oilers will post the highlights (all the goals and big events from the games like 3-8 minutes) of all the game they play this season! He does unbelievable things like this every single game.
As someone that has played hockey as a goalkeeper(not professionally, just in my youth around 17 or 18 yrs old), i feel has given me a unique perspective on whats happening or has happened during a hockey play. The speed at which a player is coming at you is often under looked. How are they coming at you? What angles are they showing you with their skates/blades/edgework? How are they holding their stick? Are they showing you multiple angles? So much i could say here. Mcdavid does so much well at such a high level. As a goalie you have to assess so much, so fast its insane; and i never had to play against nhl guys. I did play against some talented guys though.
Your eyes gets trained after awhile of watching it. Then it's easy to follow. But sometimes they leave you going what happened?!! lol A long time ago the motto was, "Don't blink you'll miss it" lol.
If you went to a live game, u'll notice the difference in ambiance compared to a video playback. Since the ice is all white&reflective, it's too bright and sometimes it's best to watch the replay on the screen. Besides, McDavid is the fastest in the NHL during the AllStars competition. He has the speed, spatial awareness and hockey sense with the positions of other players on the ice. So when ppl say he's the greatest player in the world, u have to realize the mental speed in which the hockey players are thinking and playing especially with their puck control and high speed skating. Hockey is very fast and to think that most of the time, McDavid doesn't look down when he's moving and shooting the puck as he has that much confidence&control on his stick handling&accuracy in shooting the puck to its target.
Everyone complains about not being able to see or keep track of the puck, watching on tv. That's not a problem if you played. As a matter of fact when you're playing the best thing to do is not be looking at the puck or the players, but looking in the middle of the two. Its a helpful technique to use whilst walking around a city and avoiding dog shit too.
6:42 the big screen shows replays, and yes your right. You can’t see nuanced plays happening at one end if you’re on the other end. But sitting behind the opposition goal IMO is the best because for two periods you get the most all encompassing view of the home team playing in the O zone. Can’t beat it.
Most lifelong fans know most of what happens on one look. Yet more so with fans that actually play the game. We don’t generally even have to see the puck to know what’s happened because we know what the body movements of the players mean. You need to see it sometimes of course. There are occasions when replay is needed to clear up whether it was deflected or not, etc, though. PS: going to a game is a different experience because the speed of the players appears different than on TV. It’s something else if you sit close and see them go by and see the hits right in your face. You also learn how big they are. On TV, they’re mostly the same size as each other so you lose the perspective. At a game, you’re there yourself. Plus they’re 3” taller on skates so they end up around 6’5”.
You're still new to hockey. All real hockey fans cheer for the Leafs and definitely not the Habs. If the Leafs don't make the playoffs you can cheer for any Canadian team to win the Stanley Cup.
Yes, even with the slow motion replays you can miss things in person, but there is also more going on than just the individual plays so you also get a lot that you don’t realize with the clips- if that makes sense. Even coaches and experts use replay to catch everything.
Generally if you’ve played the game or at least grew up watching it, it’s not hard to follow cuz you’re less chasing the puck/play and more so “know” where the play is going if that makes sense
To be fair, there really is a difference with European Football, with its big ball and much slower pace, and hockey, with its super fast pace and really tiny puck. We are conditioned to it, but consider yourself lucky: goalies not only have to keep their eyes on the puck but they also have to stop those shots!
Number 2 was his rookie season as an 18/19 year old. He broke his collarbone and missed almost half the season, and then did this in his first game back.
My boy referencing the Vols jerseys! Gotta get yall to Neyland for a game and you’ll never see sports the same again! It’s church for sports fan, but a day early.
Watching hockey live is actually easier if you aren’t sitting in the very back. Hockey arenas are small. 20k seats or less. Sitting in the dark with the ice so bright... picking up sight of the puck isn’t hard. It’s harder on tv to see it than real life.
After playing and watching hockey my whole life I know exactly what’s going on even if I’m in the nosebleeds or watching on a blurry tv it’s mostly the motions and the stick work that gives it away
For some reason didnt expect it from two british sounding guys, but ur takes are on point. McDavid is the best in the game, ur watching hockey at its finest
2:31 it’s funny that his goals are so spectacular that most people don’t even know that he is such an incredible playmaker. It is the fact that he is such a high level threat to pass that makes him so dangerous. It gives him an extra carrot to dangle.
thanks for the video! #2 the welcome back was due to injury. He got put out for a long time due to a collar bone break in his rookie season if my memory serves me right. Here is the video link to the incident. The #2 goal in this video was his first game back and one of the best goals scored i have ever seen, considering his age and anticipation of his return. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kXGHW9OcNoA.html
Most of the time it’s pretty easy to tell what has happened even live at a game personally just due to the amount of hockey I’ve watched but with mcdavid sometimes I need those replays to understand the amazing moves that mcdavid has some how pulled off
The thing is you really get to learn how to track the play and not the puck. In soccer you might look at the ball, but in hockey you more look at the flow of the game and almost stay ahead of where the puck will be next? That might not make sense but it’s the best way to describe it
A couple fun facts about this list. #4 and #3 happened literally 1 week apart during the regular season. My mans was on a heater. #1 has been replayed over and over everywhere and it's been 2(3?) seasons since it happened. It might genuinely be the greatest goal ever scored. Some might be more emotional or more meaningful in terms of context, but pure skill-wise this is a strong contender for top goal of all time.
Great stuuf as always....You must check out "when NHL preseason game got out of hand" by hockey psychology. Just came out. Relates directly to the Unwritten nhl fight rules video you did. Been watching hockey 30+ yrs. Never saw what happened in this video before.
I played hockey for 22 years. My insight to help. Hockey players full sprint about 23mph. That is like watching a football player run a 40m in 1.7 seconds. Connor is special not for the goal scoring or the assist count. It all starts at a young age going to specialized training camps called dry land training & skilled camps. What made us great as kids, 2 practices per day, breakfast, lunch and video training. It would be every winter, every summer. What made Connor even better? He would take his work home with him. While many of us would practice stick handling for 30 minutes before dressing for a game, Connor would practice stick handling for 2-3 hours daily. When he would train in weightlifting rooms, they were not standard equipment. He would train on two treadmills pushed together with a coating on top that simulates the ice. He would wear a harness and be able to skate as fast as he could without risk of falling. The scariest thing to a player who can’t train like Connor, is that full speed potential. In a real game, going full speed slows down your abilities of puck control but not for Mcdavid for some reason. If you went 23 mph in to the boards, you can become paralyzed or die from a concussion. Not many guys I played with, ever tried to operate a game full speed the entire game. Mcdavid does. He also spent continuous years in power skating. One of the biggest reasons for his speed, is how strong his strides are and quick crossovers. He used his blades to sharpen the ice and cut through like butter, as he crosses over, it begins to function like a wheel on a chain…more build up, more speed. Now, what makes an athlete in hockey different from guys like us who played for 20+ years since age 3? Injuries. When you sustain an injury in hockey bad enough or to a position of the body that requires significant surgery, time is against you. My brother played against Patrick Kane in the Junior days and Select 17’s. My brother passed me once I got injured. My injury, cost me 2 years of shoulder recovery and 2 years of a potential career. Mcdavid, only ever hurt his hand so he has been allowed to get better and better each year. The NFL is similar. If a guy in college D1 messed up his MCL or UCL in his thumb, his career will likely never be in the NFL bc the recovery time, puts you years behind everyone else.
It's difficult to see sometimes live like you guys say. But you learn to follow the puck with their movement and almost anticipate a little bit what is going to happen even though you might get faked out the same way a defender does. You might not also see details of a move the same way you would on a replay if bodies are covering your view. Redirections are incredibly hard to follow live, at least for me, and then you just look at the jumbotron and hope to catch what happened. You know someone got a stick on it but it's hard to catch, especially multiple redirections (stick into skate into whatever). So don't feel bad!
theyve got jumbotrons (massive screens suspended over the ice) so you can watch replays right after, but when you go to the game you see the puck so clearly because the ice is so perfectly white, and then you got the black puck. if you played the sport or watched it alot youll start seeing it. but weve never seen anyone like mcdavid, gretzky is still the best of all time in my opinion for now, but his style was very different to mcdavid.
ill give you a football reference to compare them. even though im canadian im a massive football fan, wake up every weekend 5 am to watch chelsea play like shit. anyways. mcdavid is like mbappe/henry type. fast and unbelieveable control at speed, gretzky was like if you mixed the vision/playmaking of prime pirlo, but the ability to score whenever he wanted as well. mcdavid is speed and skill like weve never seen, but gretzky was all brain. ill continue to call gretzky the goat until mcdavid wins the cup. then its a conversation. right now its not for me.
Only thing that sucks is the timezone the Oilers are in. Most of their games are going to start VERY late for you guys, if Nick wanted to watch them live.
It's already been answered, but in my experience, you definitely have to be watching to know it went in. It's easy to miss if you look down or elsewhere. The scoreboard will show the replay a few times so you can see what happened. The Oilers are my hometown team, so I have been to a few games all the way back to the 1980s when they were winning all those Stanley Cups. But the current arena, Rogers Place, is amazing. Love that building.
You get used to watching hockey and figure out where the puck is even without seeing it at times. Look at where the players are looking and how they are positioned, how they are reacting. Once you figure out where it is you can follow it. And not really the puck itself, although you can see it, but in general more experienced watchers will tell you what you are really watching is the body language of the guys on the ice.
Appreciate the suggestion James, thank you 🙏 I have a funny feeling we’ve done this one possibly, worth having a search of the NFL Playlist. But I’ll add to the list just in case 👍
The 2nd best goal was during his first game back after a collarbone injury that he sustained earlier in the season, it really is just shocking what he can do.
Gretzky won 9 Harts and 10 Art Rosses on top of 4 Cups, and was winning scoring titles by 30-70% over the 2nd best.... McDavid isnt close. Although, I believe will be 5th greatest player ever whens all said and done.
You need to watch the highlights from the hame that #1 was from. Against NY Rangers. It was an insane game and Mcdavid and Draisaitl had 4 or 5 points each i believe.
You should check out Mitch Marner and Auston Matthews highlights, they play for the Leafs. A very exciting team to watch in the season...and an extreme disappointment in the playoffs lol
@craigy420 Did you read my comment...that's what I said lol Just because they choke in the playoffs doesn't mean Marner and Matthews aren't fun to watch. The way I look at it with the Leafs is I have 82 games worth of exciting, fast paced hockey to watch...and then I prepare to start watching baseball lol
I've been to a 3-4 Buffalo Sabres games each year since 2019. I try to get the same seat near the ice where the home team attacks in the first and third periods. Even with this great view of the net, I don't always see the goal scored.
The reason they said "Welcome back conner" on #2 is that was his first game back after missing almost half the season with a broken collar bone. That was his rookie year.
#5: The defender, Morgan Rielly was playing hurt at the time, and I think it was right after that game he decided enough is enough, and took time off to get right. Which is not to say Rielly would have stopped him if healthy, just would have been beat a little less spectacularly. Maybe.
Rielly broke his foot in a game against Florida a whole week after that goal from Mcdavid. What I remember from it was all the jokes that Mcdavids move broke Riellys ankle and ego lol also if you watch that play very closely you’ll see that Mcdavid (possibly on purpose) crossed over to his left and the very exact moment Rielly lifted his skate to take a crossover the other way. There was zero chance of stopping what was going to happen
First off I want to say I love your videos! As a Canadian who grew up with hockey and have played my whole life it's been really great seeing both of you get invested in the most underrated sport in the world. You should definitely react to Auston Matthews (greatest NHL debut ever) and Nathan MacKinnon (truly the closest thing to McJesus).
