Connor McDavid is the best hockey player in the world and the biggest reason the Edmonton Oilers are in the Stanley Cup Final.
The reigning NHL MVP, face of the franchise and face of the sport is also the Oilers’ best hope of winning a championship for the first time since 1990 and ending Canada’s 31-year drought.
While McDavid is the league’s best player, longtime running mate Leon Draisaitl might also be in the top five. The imposing 28-year-old German can skate alongside McDavid or run his own line, giving Knoblauch an embarrassment of talent at the top of his lineup. A bugaboo for the Oilers has been the struggles of Darnell Nurse, which the rest of the team has been able to compensate for. Knoblauch also switched out Vincent Desharnais for Philip Broberg down 2-1 in the West final, and his team has not lost since.
Knoblauch is a first-time NHL head coach, hired in November after the Oilers lost 10 of their first 13 games, but no stranger to long playoff runs. He won the Western Hockey League championship in 2011 and the Ontario Hockey League championship in 2017.
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