Connor McDavid
Oilers C Connor McDavid is now in a position “to become bigger than hockey” — something that has not happened with an NHL player since the days of Wayne Gretzky — and while being famous may not be McDavid’s primary goal in life, it is the “not-so-secret hope of everyone he’s in business with,” according to Cathal Kelly of the GLOBE & MAIL. And to get to that point, Amazon can be the “right vehicle” for McDavid. The most important part of that process is Amazon’s new “Faceoff: Inside the NHL” series, which debuts Friday. The docuseries focuses on more than a dozen players, “but it’s McDavid’s show.” The six-part series does not focus on McDavid until the fifth episode, but the footage shows that the star player is the “erratic wildman the NHL needs, even if it doesn’t know that.” These next 16 months are “so perfectly set up to turn McDavid from a hockey concern into an entertainment concern” that you would think Prime Video and the NHL “planned it this way.” Along with the 4 Nations Face-Off in February and the NHL playoffs, McDavid and the Oilers “don’t have to win,” they just “have to get close again” (GLOBE & MAIL, 10/3
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