TORONTO -- One of the fastest minutes in hockey history starts with Connor McDavid picking up the puck in his own zone, maybe 15 feet behind his blue line, 17 seconds into the first period. Freeze him in that moment, and he is hockey and youth and everything they might become: already in full stride, head up, brimming with possibility. He narrows the ice between his right skate and the boards in front of Team North America's bench and leaves Sweden's iconic Daniel Sedin, closing in from center ice, an ocean behind. "Had a lot of speed," McDavid says. Two seconds after he first touched the puck, the 19-year-old blurs past Henrik Sedin, who waves his stick in McDavid's general direction like an old man trying to push a cat away with a broom. "It's tough when you're standing still, and the guy comes 200 miles per hour at you," Sedin says. "I just tried to get to the middle as fast as I could," McDavid says. One second later, McDavid splits Anton...