He’s also a very talented hockey player
The drought is over! After a grueling one-year absence from the cover of EA’s hockey video game, a young Canadian man is once again the athlete on the front ofNHL. (Not to be confused witha Canadien man.)
At tonight’s NHL Awards, Edmonton Oilers captain Connor McDavid was named the cover star ofNHL 18. McDavid is coming off a 100 point season in which he won the Art Ross trophy for being the league’s leading scorer. Although he’s only two years into his career, McDavid is already considered a generational talent by many — the kind of superstar that comes around maybe once a decade. He was probably bound to end up onNHL‘s cover sooner or later.
As for Canada’s return to cover athlete prominence,NHL 17featured Russian-born Vladimir Tarasenko. Before that,NHL 10‘s Patrick Kane was the last time a non-Canuck (not the team) graced the cover. Between 2011 and 2016 the athletes were, in order: Jonathan Toews, Steven Stamkos, Claude Giroux, Martin Brodeur, Patrice Bergeron, and Jonathan Toews again.
Canada has good luck getting on the cover ofNHLgames; too bad it doesn’t have the same luck winning the Stanley Cup.
