Connor McDavid

Connor McDavid is in a relationship with a Canadian girl named Lauren Kyle who is currently studying business. They reportedly met by chance after arriving at the wrong birthday party.

Connor McDavid was born on January 13, 1997 in Richmond Hill, Ontario to Brian and Kelly McDavid. His father was a youth hockey coach and he has an older brother named Cameron who is an Ivey Business School graduate.

He started skating when he was three and at four, began playing hockey with children older than him. After the hockey association in his hometown Newmarket barred him from playing with older children when he was six, his parents enrolled him into a team in nearby Aurora, allowing him to play with 9-year-olds.

He was later coached by his father at York-Simcoe Express, a team in Aurora, Ontario, which went on to win four Ontario Minor Hockey Association championships. He briefly considered playing for the Terriers while attending Boston University, but decided to play in OHL to develop his skills fully.

Connor McDavid began playing minor hockey with the York-Simcoe Express of the Ontario Minor Hockey Association (OMHA) and later played bantam and minor midget hockey at Toronto Marlboros of the Greater Toronto Hockey League (GTHL). At minor midget level, he scored 209 points in 88 games with 79 goals and 130 assists during the 2011-12 season and was named the GTHL ‘Player of the Year’.

Thanks to his performance, he was granted ‘Exceptional Player’ status by Hockey Canada, the governing body for amateur hockey in Canada. This allowed him to play in the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) despite being one year junior, making him the third player to achieve that status after John Tavares and Aaron Ekblad.

Entering the 2012 OHL Priority Selection at age 15, he was selected first overall by the Erie Otters and was honored with the 'Jack Ferguson Award'. During his inaugural season, he scored points in 15 consecutive games except his debut match, which helped him earn the 'OHL Rookie of the Month' honor twice.

Throughout his first season, he recorded 41 assists, the most by an OHL rookie, for which he received the 'Emms Family Award', and finished as the second top scorer among first-year players, with 66 points. Moreover, his exceptional performance secured him a spot on the 'OHL First All-Rookie Team' and made him a finalist for 'CHL Rookie of the Year'.

The 2013-14 season was no less exciting for him as he won the 'William Hanley Trophy' for being OHL's most sportsmanlike player and the 'Bobby Smith Trophy' for being 'OHL Scholastic Player of the Year'. He was also named to the 'OHL Second All Star Team' that year.

Connor McDavid was drafted first overall in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft by the Edmonton Oilers, following which he signed a three-year entry-level contract with the team on July 3rd. His professional career had a rough start as his first two matches against St. Louis Blues and Dallas Stars ended in losses, and he subsequently broke his clavicle which kept him out of 37 games.

He made his return to the ice memorable with a goal and two assists against Columbus Blue Jackets on February 2, 2016 and recorded his first five-point night against Toronto Maple Leafs, his boyhood team. Despite playing only 45 games that season, he was voted third for the Calder Memorial Trophy as the NHL's 'Rookie of the Year'.

At 19 years and 266 days, he became the youngest captain in NHL history after being named captain of the Oilers on October 5, 2016. During the end of the year, after 10 goal-less games, he scored his first hat-trick in a 5-2 win against the Dallas Stars on November 19, 2016.

In 2016-17, he helped his team to the playoffs and became the fourth fastest active player to reach 100 points after scoring one on his 92nd game, and finished the season as the top scorer. He signed an 8-year extension with the Edmonton Oilers on July 5, 2017 for $100 million, which made him the highest paid player in NHL history.