What is Todd McLellan thinking sitting McDavid in Debut NHL Game

Yeah I have been reading and listening to what the coach has had to say about McDavid thus far and I'm not that impressed with his comments.  In an interview before McDavid's debut game he said we will see how he does when he starts looking more like a man than a boy and then here in this story he says his play was really inconsistent and along with that McDavid was on the bench at the beginning of his first game for the center ice puck drop.

I know there are still some remnants of the old Oilers still hanging around the team, some of the same who decided against taking Crosby to the Olympics the first time he was eligible and we all know how that worked out.  And what the coach did at the beginning of the first game reminded me a bit of how the coach of Team Canada left the great one on the bench during the shoot-out in the medal round of the Olympics and we know how that turned out for them. 

I hope the coaches Ego can handle the Phenom that McDavid is, for if he can't it going to get real messy real soon and we know who is going to lose that battle.  Cheers.