'McDavid ain't doin' anything right now': Iconic U.S. sports host rips Oilers superstar
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Fellow commentator P.K. Subban played down McDavid's poor play in the game, noting that it's easy to point the fingers at the superstars like McDavid and Leon Draisaitl but the entire Oilers team was dominated from top to bottom.
Smith was having none of that. 'Let me tell you why I have a problem with what you're saying,' he said to Subban. ' Connor McDavid, 13 shots, no goals. Zero? Nothing in the Stanley Cup? And oh, by the way, this is the three time league M.V.P. No champion. He may be the greatest who has never won. These are the kinds of things you were talking about him from last year. So here we are again. Same opponent, same situation, same problem. When do you get to hold a superstar accountable tha not under these conditions?'
Smith also blasted the Oilers rough stuff at the end of the game as them being 'sore losers because you're getting your ass kicked… They were seem worse than they were last year.'
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