66 Facts About Connor McDavid

Connor McDavid spent his childhood playing ice hockey against older children.

Connor McDavid was granted exceptional player status in 2012 by Hockey Canada, which allowed him to begin playing junior ice hockey at the age of 15.

Connor McDavid represented Canada at several international competitions during this time, winning gold medals at the 2013 IIHF World U18 Championships and 2015 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships.

Connor McDavid was awarded the Hart Memorial Trophy, Ted Lindsay Award, and was selected to the NHL First All-Star Team.

Connor McDavid is considered one of the best players in the NHL by other players, fans, and journalists, and he has drawn comparisons to players such as Sidney Crosby and Wayne Gretzky.

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Connor McDavid's opponents have praised his speed on the ice, and McDavid has won Fastest Skater at the NHL All-Star Skills Competition three times.

Connor McDavid's mother Kelly played one year of recreational ice hockey as a child before turning her attention towards skiing, while his father Brian was a high school ice hockey player and dedicated Boston Bruins fan.

Connor McDavid began playing hockey around the age of three, practicing on rollerblades in the family basement.

Connor McDavid began playing organized youth hockey the next year, as his parents lied about his age to allow him to play with the other five-year-olds.

In 2009, Connor McDavid participated in the Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with his York Simcoe team, which featured future professional ice hockey player Sam Bennett.

In 2011, Connor McDavid left the Express for the Toronto Marlboros of the Greater Toronto Hockey League, the team that he and his father had defeated in the previous year's Ontario Hockey Federation championship.

Connor McDavid won the GTHL Player of the Year Award in 2012 after scoring 33 goals and recording 39 assists in 33 regular-season games.

Connor McDavid added another 19 points in seven OHL Cup games, the most by any player since Sam Gagner recorded 17 points in five games during the 2005 tournament.

Connor McDavid applied for exceptional player status through Hockey Canada, and after passing through evaluations of his athleticism, academics, and maturity, he was allowed to enter the junior hockey draft at the age of 15 rather than 16.

Connor McDavid was only the third Ontario Hockey League player to be granted such an exception, following John Tavares in 2005 and Aaron Ekblad in 2011.

That same month, Connor McDavid became the youngest OHL player ever to participate in the Subway Super Series.

Connor McDavid went on to record four more points in the regular season, breaking Connolly's record.

Connor McDavid finished his rookie season with 25 goals and 41 assists in 63 regular-season games, second in scoring to Nikolay Goldobin among all OHL rookies.

Connor McDavid was a finalist for CHL Rookie of the Year, a title which ultimately went to Valentin Zykov of the Baie-Comeau Drakkar.

Connor McDavid finished the regular season fourth in the OHL with 99 points in 56 games.

Connor McDavid was named to the OHL Second All-Star Team alongside Otters defenceman Adam Pelech and coach Kris Knoblauch.

The Otters, meanwhile, finished the regular season second in the OHL, and Connor McDavid added an additional four goals and 19 points in 14 postseason games before Erie fell to the Guelph Storm in the Western Conference finals.

Connor McDavid had already recorded a goal and assist at the time of his injury, giving him a Gordie Howe hat trick, but was forced to miss both the Subway Super Series and several regular season games.

Connor McDavid finished the regular season with 44 goals and 120 points in 47 games, with at least one point in all but two of those games, and he led the OHL with a +60 plus–minus rating.

Altogether, Connor McDavid had 285 points in his career with the Otters, 24 fewer than franchise leader Brad Boyes, and led the franchise with 188 assists.

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At 19 years and 266 days old, Connor McDavid became the youngest captain in NHL history, unseating Gabriel Landeskog, who was 20 days older when he became captain of the Colorado Avalanche in 2012.

Connor McDavid reached the milestone in only 92 games, following Wayne Gretzky and Blair MacDonald as the third-fastest Oiler to reach 100 career points.

Connor McDavid won Fastest Skater at the NHL All-Star Skills Competition with a time of 13.

Connor McDavid added five goals and nine points in 13 playoff games before elimination.

Once the Stanley Cup playoffs concluded, Connor McDavid was honoured at the 2017 NHL Awards with the Hart Memorial Trophy for the most valuable player in the NHL, the Ted Lindsay Award for the most outstanding player as decided by the National Hockey League Players' Association, and a selection to the NHL First All-Star Team at centre.

Connor McDavid successfully defended his Fastest Skater title at the Skills Competition, completing the course in 13.

Connor McDavid additionally took home the Ted Lindsay Award and was named to the NHL First All-Star Team.

Connor McDavid finished the season with a career-tying 41 goals, as well as a career-high 75 assists and 116 points, and he came in third behind Sidney Crosby and Nikita Kucherov in Hart Trophy voting.

Connor McDavid received his third NHL First All-Star Team selection, finishing ahead of Crosby in voting for centre.

Connor McDavid was diagnosed with a complete tear of the posterior cruciate ligament and popliteus muscle, tears to both the medial and lateral meniscus, and a tibial plateau fracture.

Five days later, Connor McDavid recorded another hat-trick as part of a career-high six-point game against the Colorado Avalanche.

Connor McDavid made his fourth All-Star Game appearance in 2020 as captain of the Pacific Division.

Connor McDavid was kept from a fourth consecutive Fastest Skater win by Mathew Barzal, who finished the course in 13.

Connor McDavid injured his knee in a collision with Dante Fabbro during the second period of that game, and although the knee itself did not suffer any serious damage, MRI scans revealed a quadriceps injury.

Connor McDavid added an additional five goals and nine points in four postseason games before the Chicago Blackhawks eliminated the Oilers in the qualifying round.

Connor McDavid finished the regular season with 33 goals and 72 assists for a league-leading 105 points in 56 games, 21 more than runner-up and teammate Leon Draisaitl, and took home his third career Art Ross Trophy.

Oilers were unexpectedly swept by the Winnipeg Jets in the first round of the 2021 Stanley Cup playoffs, with Connor McDavid recording only one goal and three assists in the four-game series.

The officiating standards during the playoffs subsequently became a public point of contention, with Connor McDavid joining many fans and commentators in saying that referees allowed the Jets' players to foul him with impunity.

Connor McDavid was selected as the captain of the Pacific Division team at the 2022 NHL All-Star Game, where he was upset by Jordan Kyrou of the St Louis Blues in the Fastest Skater competition.

Connor McDavid finished the season with 44 goals and 123 points in 80 games to secure his fourth career Art Ross Trophy.

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Connor McDavid was again named a finalist for both the Hart Trophy and the Ted Lindsay Award.

Connor McDavid scored the series-clinching goal in overtime in Game 5 to send the Oilers to the Western Conference Final for the first time since 2006.

Connor McDavid became the first player since Peter Forsberg in 2002 to be first in scoring without playing in the final round.

The next year, a 16-year-old Connor McDavid was the youngest player in the 2013 IIHF World U18 Championships in Sochi.

In 2014, Connor McDavid became the sixth 16-year-old in history to join the Canadian junior team for that year's World Junior Ice Hockey Championship.

Connor McDavid rejoined the team for the 2015 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships in Canada, serving as an alternate captain and as the only 17-year-old on a team that was otherwise 19 years of age.

Connor McDavid was named to the media all-star team at the end of the championships.

Connor McDavid first joined the Canadian senior team for the 2016 IIHF World Championship in Russia.

Connor McDavid's was the only goal of the game until the final second, when Matt Duchene scored in an empty net.

That same year, Connor McDavid was named captain of Team North America, a team of Canadian and United States players aged 23 or under, at the 2016 World Cup of Hockey.

Centreing a line with Auston Matthews and Mark Scheifele, Connor McDavid had three assists in six games during the pre-tournament and round robin stages of the World Cup.

Two years later, Connor McDavid was named captain of Team Canada at the 2018 IIHF World Championship in Denmark, where he recorded five goals and 13 points through the opening rounds of the tournament.

Connor McDavid, who was joined by Oilers teammates Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Darnell Nurse, finished the tournament third in scoring with five goals and 17 points in 10 games.

Connor McDavid intended to play for Canada again at the 2019 IIHF World Championship, but suffered a leg injury at the end of the NHL season that kept him from participating.

Connor McDavid was one of the first three players named to the Canadian roster for the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, joining Sidney Crosby and Alex Pietrangelo.

Between 2016 and 2021, Connor McDavid ranked first in TSN Hockey's preseason fan poll of the top 50 players in the NHL.

In 2021, Connor McDavid joined Gretzky as the only players to unanimously win the Hart Memorial Trophy, as voted by members of the Professional Hockey Writers' Association.

Connor McDavid described his childhood bedroom as "pretty embarrassing" for its volume of Maple Leafs memorabilia.

In 2022, Connor McDavid was one of several Canadian athletes to appear on boxes of Cheerios cereal as part of their "Be the Cheer" promotion, in which customers could write personalized messages to athletes competing at the Olympic Games.

That same year, Connor McDavid became the first active professional athlete to serve as a brand ambassador for sports betting company BetMGM.

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Connor McDavid is involved in a shuttle program to help sick kids.