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The McDavid effect : Connor McDavid and the new hope for hockey / Marty Klinkenberg.

by Klinkenberg, Marty.

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Simon & Schuster Canada, 2016.

796.962092 M134k

McDavid, Connor, 1997-

Edmonton Oilers (Hockey team)

Hockey players -- Alberta -- Edmonton -- Biography.

Hockey -- Social aspects -- Alberta -- Edmonton.

9781501146039 (hc.)

Simon & Schuster Canada edition

232 pages, [16] pages of plates : colour illustrations ; 24 cm.

Step into the streets, arenas, coffee shops, and offices of Edmonton, and witness how the arrival of a teenage hockey phenomenon is changing the city's fortunes. Once known as the City of Champions, Edmonton is at a crossroads. As oil prices continue to plummet, the economic outlook grows bleaker by the day. As though mirroring the city's fortunes, the Edmonton Oilers continue to struggle on the ice, offering little solace or escape to the city's long-suffering hockey fans. But on June 26, 2015, with the first overall pick in the NHL Entry Draft, the Edmonton Oilers selected Connor McDavid, a once-in-a-generation talent who, at only eighteen years old, was already being compared to the Great One who had preceded him twenty-five years earlier. Sparked by the arrival of McDavid, the construction of a new state-of-the-art hockey arena, and the development of a revitalized downtown core, a new sensibility began to emerge in Edmonton.

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