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PENTICTON, B.C. — A passerby might have mistakenly figured that Mason McDonald was boasting about the firepower on his fantasy team.

“Crosby, Marchand, Bergeron, Duchene, Tavares, Seguin, van Riemsdyk,” said McDonald, rattling off a who’s who of World-Cuppers and some of the NHL’s most frequent scoresheet-fillers. “There are more guys, but those are the standouts. That’s who was there.”

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McDonald was there, too.

You see, the Calgary Flames’ puck-stopping prospect was not listing a fantasy squad, but a firing squad.

For more than a month, the 20-year-old McDonald was one of the masked men at informal skates attended by Sidney Crosby, Brad Marchand, Nathan MacKinnon — “Yeah, MacKinnon was there too, another World Cup guy” — and other NHL stars who were hanging out in the Halifax area this summer.

For one week in late August, as part of an elite-level training pow-wow, the likes of Patrice Bergeron, Matt Duchene, Tyler Seguin and John Tavares joined the fray.