What Would a Stanley Cup Win Mean for Connor McDavid's Legacy?

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00:00Connor McDavid leads the Oilers into their second consecutive Stanley Cup final.

00:04The career resume already for McDavid, Pete, is sensational.

00:08He won the Conn Smythe as the playoff MVP a season ago without his team even winning that Stanley Cup.

00:15He has been the Hart Trophy winner three times, the NHL MVP hardware.

00:20But as the native Canadian, what would it mean, Pete, for his legacy, that of Connor McDavid,

00:26for the prodigal son to return Lord Stanley's Cup to the Great White North?

00:32Oh, it would mean everything for sure.

00:34And it would mirror the same type of thing as Wayne Gretzky, Sidney Crosby, right?

00:39They got to the Cup final the first time and lost.

00:41And that's a pretty rare thing to get back there the next year.

00:45And those two all-time greats, Crosby and Gretzky, both won it the second time around

00:51and learn from, of course, what went wrong in the prior Cup final appearances.

00:58So I think that it's nice for McDavid to get back here, especially after, remember,

01:02in the Four Nations tournament, he scored the game-winning goal for Canada to beat the U.S.

01:07in the championship game just a couple of months ago.

01:09So it would kind of be riding that momentum.

01:12And make no mistake about it, I think that tournament kind of reinvigorated McDavid a little bit

01:18because the season was not going on the right track prior to that.

01:22And then that has had a ripple effect on his entire team, whether it's Drysaddle,

01:26who led the league in goals in the regular season, especially the goaltender, Stuart Skinner.

01:31He has been sensational of late for the Oilers.