Connor McDavid

Honestly, watching Connor McDavid play hockey feels like watching a cheat code in human form — the guy was born in 1997 and by 2017 he was already winning the Hart Trophy as the NHL's most valuable player and leading the league in scoring with two consecutive Art Ross Trophies. He went first overall to Edmonton in 2015, which at the time felt almost unfair to the rest of the league, and he's been making that look like an understatement ever since. His edge work and acceleration are just absurd — he changes direction at full speed in ways that seem physically impossible. I'm not even an Oilers fan but I'll stop whatever I'm doing to watch this guy take the puck end-to-end. There's a genuine argument he's the best player of his generation, maybe ever, and he's not even close to done yet.

Name (English)

Connor McDavid

Name (Japanese)

コナー・マクデイビッド

Reading

こなー・まくでいびっど

Born

January 13, 1997 (age 29)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Ox

Origin

Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada

Height

185 cm

Occupation

ice hockey player

High school

McDowell High School

Awards & achievements

• 2017 Hart Memorial Trophy
• 2017 Art Ross Trophy
• 2018 Art Ross Trophy
• 2017 Ted Lindsay Award
• 2018 Ted Lindsay Award

Motto

Private

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/mcdavid97/
• Xhttps://x.com/cmcdavid97
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B3%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%82%AF%E3%83%87%E3%83%93%E3%83%83%E3%83%89

Tags

• Ontario
• ice hockey player

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.