No. 208: CONNOR McDAVID II / A day in the family home with the phenom, age 18.

In the tumult around the the brightest talent to come along in a decade (& probably in decades), how was it that the least impressed person in the room was the kid himself? It's like he knew.

With the Edmonton Oilers set to face the Florida Panthers in the Stanley Cup Final, I figure it was time to revisit a couple of stories that I wrote about Connor McDavid. On Monday, I wrote about McDavid at 16 and the fallout from the display copy on the cover of Sportsnet Magazine. Check out No. 207: CONNOR McDAVID I / Yeah, "Better than Crosby" was a burden for a teen.

Today I’m looking back at a story that I wrote not quite two years after the fact. I tracked McDavid during the Erie Otters’ run to the OHL final, which they wound up drop…