McDavid on concussion protocol

McDavid tripped over Wild defenceman Jared Spurgeon's stick and hit his chin. The National Hockey League's concussion spotters requested him to be pulled from the game temporarily to ensure he did not sustain a concussion on the play.
McDavid was surprised when he was told he had to leave the ice.
"I was pretty shocked, to be honest," he said. "I hit my mouth on the ice, you reach up and grab your mouth when you get hit in your mouth. I think it's a pretty normal thing. Obviously, the (concussion) spotter thought he knew how I was feeling. He pulled me off."
The Oilers were on the man-advantage with only 6:28 left in the second frame at the time.
"It's a little bit of a partial 5-on-3 and then a power play after late in the second period, where if you capitalize it could change the game," he said. "It kind of sucks because that's the rule. I hit my head - well hit my mouth - reached up, grabbed my mouth and they took that as something that it wasn't, and I guess that's the rule."
McDavid noted some details of the process.
"Before the season starts you go through a concussion test - kind of your baseline - you do that and it takes 20 minutes or so, so it's a bit of a process and pretty inconvenient."
Head Coach Todd McLellan also commented on the concussion protocol.
"I don't write the rules; we abide by them," he said. "It's compounded when you have a 5-on-3 and you lose arguably one of the best players in the world. I understand and I get and I support the attention that's being paid to head injuries.
"Sometimes it's the inconsistency that's a little bit frustrating: Ryan Kesler went down the other day and he went down pretty hard. No one wants to see that, even with an opponent but there wasn't a call from anywhere. It's there for a reason and we have to live with it."