Who knows what they’ll be like at the next Olympics. If they can even go to the Olympics, given the NHL’s ongoing uncertainty about releasing players. But let’s say they do make it to 2030. McDavid will be 33, on the tail end of his prime but still one of the best players in the world. Celebrini won’t be a teenager anymore — he’ll be 23, presumably hitting his own prime, and that version of him could legitimately be better than that 33-year-old version of McDavid.
