😂 McDavid, Draisaitl play in beer league game

Imagine being a brew league hockey subordinate and seeing Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl, the NHL's top dynamic duo, amusement up arsenic ringers for your crippled that night.

Now ideate outscoring them.

The Edmonton Oilers superstars suited up for a Wednesday nighttime pickup crippled astatine the Magna Centre successful Newmarket, Ontario, astir wherever McDavid grew up playing hockey. McDavid and Draisaitl deed the crystal wearing Oilers signifier jerseys to the delight of fans.

But if those fans were expecting the erstwhile NHL MVPs to crush the locals similar they were playing a video crippled acceptable to "easy" mode, that wasn't the case. In fact, according to reports, neither McDavid nor Draisaitl had a extremity successful the game.

Granted, they were playing astatine offseason speeds and looking to acceptable up others. McDavid wasn't precisely dipping into his bag of tricks erstwhile helium got breakaway chances against the opposing goaltender. Not that the goaltender astir apt minded, having been talented the communicative of stopping Connor McDavid connected aggregate breakaways.

According to reports, McDavid and Draisaitl recovered themselves down 4-0 aft the extremity of the archetypal period. They yet mislaid the crippled 6-2.

On-ice officials said they were fixed a heads-up that McDavid and Draisaitl were going to play that night, according to TSN. They were inactive a small "starstruck" but admitted the refs worked harder for the juncture "even though it's a summertime league crippled successful July."

This isn't the archetypal clip McDavid has dropped successful to play summertime hockey. He caused a disturbance backmost successful 2023 erstwhile helium suited up for a title last crippled against a squad that had Los Angeles Kings prima Quinton Byfield arsenic a ringer.

"That's a league I played successful with my buddies for implicit 10 years now. We joined that league backmost erstwhile I played inferior hockey. I was a small spot amazed to spot it get blown up," helium told ESPN. "I've been playing successful those games for implicit a decennary now. So it's beauteous comic that it conscionable benignant of came up."

McDavid and Draisaitl volition tally it backmost with the Oilers adjacent play arsenic they question a 3rd consecutive travel to the Stanley Cup Final and their archetypal title together. But earlier that, Edmonton fans -- and fans astir the NHL -- are waiting to perceive McDavid's determination connected a caller declaration with the Oilers, arsenic he's scheduled to go an unrestricted escaped cause adjacent summer.