The Cult of Hockey's "Frederic and McDavid shine in win over Mammoth" podcast

On the Oilers front, good news.

6-2 win over the Mammoth of Utah.

just a really huge victory because again, we keep flashing back to last year's team and what might've happened with last year's team under similar circumstances where they lose a game.

They're a bit undermanned.

They're going now into Utah, a tougher arena.

And it just feels like last year's owners would have lost this game because But this year's Oilers didn't lose it.

And again, it's largely on the strength of the superstar players on the team.

But the whole entire team came through in big ways this game.

It was a real team effort, perhaps the biggest team effort of the year.

And I'm going to recognize that in the Two Good Things, Two Bad Things, and Two Numbers podcast here.

McDavid got five points in the game.

Two of them on breakaways.

One where he cut in off the wing early in the game.

Sergachev's cross-checking him or hooking him or getting a stick in there at the very least.

But he just burst through.

That's what I noticed about McDavid tonight again and again and again is his incredible strength on the skates as people are bashing him.

He just controls the puck.

Seemingly uh easily and it's such a difficult thing to do in hockey when people are jostling you pushing you and it just it speaks to his power and his strength on his skates that at such a high speed he's not thrown off but he just went right around Sergachev and put it in and he got he picked off a puck in the neutral zone won a puck and got the last goal as well to make it six to it which completely put the game out of reach so He's not a good thing because he's Connor McDavid.

He's his own thing.

So we'll go with two other players as the good thing tonight.