Watch: Connor McDavid’s OT aim lifts Canada to 4 Nations Face-Off championship

Connor McDavid ( Edmonton Oilers) is probably the most dominant offensive participant within the NHL and one of many league’s greatest stars. However for all of his particular person awards, huge numbers and highlight-reel performs, his profession has nonetheless been lacking a signature second.

He delivered that signature second on Thursday night time.

That was when he scored the game-winning aim in time beyond regulation of the 4 Nations Face-Off to provide Canada a 3-2 win over the US.

Here’s a have a look at the play.

McDavid was not at his greatest on Thursday night time and was oddly quiet for a lot of the sport. He nonetheless managed to ship on the greatest second.

McDavid’s aim got here only a few minutes after Canada goalie Jordan Binnington (St. Louis Blues) made a sequence of highlight-reel saves on the different finish of the rink to maintain his group within the recreation, robbing each Brady Tkachuk (Ottawa Senators) and Auston Matthews (Toronto Maple Leafs) on a number of prime scoring probabilities. 

This was the primary best-on-best event involving NHL gamers because the 2016 World Cup of Hockey, and it greater than delivered. Now we get to see it once more in 2026 when the NHL makes its return to the Winter Olympics. 

Canada and the US will each be among the many gold-medal favorites. If these two video games on this event had been any indication of what’s forward, these video games is also classics. 

Adam Gretz

Adam Gretz is a contract author primarily based in Pittsburgh. He covers the NHL, NFL, MLB and NBA. Baseball is his favourite sport — he’s almost midway by means of his aim of seeing a recreation in each MLB ballpark. Catch him on Twitter @AGretz