from the CP at the Calgary Herald,
Ask players around the league who’s the fastest skater in the NHL and the same handful of names come up: Taylor Hall, Michael Grabner, Blake Wheeler, Andrew Cogliano and Carl Hagelin.
Hall likes Grabner’s speed, but he brought up another name without hesitation.
“Nathan MacKinnon,” the Edmonton Oilers winger said. “When we played against him last year he took off at one point during the game and I’d never seen anything like that.”
MacKinnon, last year’s Calder Trophy winner as rookie of the year with 24 goals and 39 assists, might be the best combination of speed and skill hockey has seen since Pavel Bure.
Hall believes if he raced against MacKinnon and Grabner, something that could potentially happen at the All-Star skills competition in Columbus in January, that the 19-year-old budding Colorado Avalanche star would win.
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