No. 207: CONNOR McDAVID I / Yeah, "Better than Crosby" was a burden for a teen. Ten years later he's playing catch up with Sid. He's almost there.

Lots of legends never won a Stanley Cup, but it wouldn't feel right if the best player of his era didn't. McDavid's greatness was obvious at age 16, although saying 97 > 87 out loud invited criticism.

AFTER a few decades into the business, I gave up telling casual readers that I don’t write the headlines. When I could still be bothered to lay out that inconvenient fact, the discussion was usually spurred by a headline that I wouldn’t have written.

Yeah, sometimes the editor writing the headline or coming up with the title of the magazine story would over-state or over-sell the goods. Sometimes, I didn’t agree with the headline or title at a fundamental level.

This brings us to Connor McDavid, who at age 27 could walk away from the game to…