Bold Prediction: Gavin McKenna has a monster rookie season<\/p>\n
It seemed that McKenna lost some of his pre-draft hype this season, even creating some doubt as to whether or not he would still be the No. 1 overall pick. <\/p>\n
A lot of that was due to the fact he chose to go the NCAA route and play against significantly tougher competition. Had he played in the CHL, dominated a bunch of 16, 17, and 18 year-olds and put up 180 points or something similar, he likely would have had the same hype that he did coming into the season. But the NCAA is a higher level of play, and he still had an outstanding season. That is only going to make him more NHL ready. Add in the fact he is joining a team that has Auston Matthews, William Nylander and Matthew Knies on it and he is also going to be in a nice situation with high-level players around him. <\/p>\n
He is not only going to be the Calder Trophy favorite, he might run away with it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bold Prediction: Gavin McKenna has a monster rookie season It seemed that McKenna lost some of his pre-draft…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":782977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-782976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}