Nathan MacKinnon is so quick and so forceful on the ice that sometimes there’s a crunching noise that follows him into the offensive end.
“I don’t know what his ceiling is,” said Avalanche coach Jared Bednar, whose team closes out the regular season Thursday against Edmonton before opening the first round of the playoffs in Winnipeg. “But I wouldn’t bet against him on continuing to improve.”MacKinnon currently has 138 points , just behind Tampa Bay’s Kucherov in the race for the Art Ross Trophy, which goes to the player who leads the league in scoring in the regular season.
“The only way to get better is to do different things,” MacKinnon explained. “I’m always open to new ideas. The growth mindset is just never thinking you’re really there.” MacKinnon’s emerged as a leader, too, with long-time captain Gabriel Landeskog sidelined for a second straight season by a knee injury. Typically one of the first players on and off the ice during practice, MacKinnon’s presence carries a lot of weight.“With Nate, there’s lots of communication when it comes to the structure of the game and what we need him to do,” Bednar explained. “And where we have leeway for him to sort of use his instincts a little bit more because they’re elite.
The 6-foot, 200-pound MacKinnon – who counts Sidney Crosby as a good buddy – has taken a franchise-most 404 shots this season. He became the 10th different player since 1959-60 to reach the 400-shot plateau for a season.
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