A biography for Connor McDavidhasn’t been written yet.
“Obviously as a kid you collect hockey cards.”
“I think I'm a good passer and can make plays, but there's definitely a knack to putting the puck in the net.”
“I think you've just got to have everyone buy in, working towards a common goal. Doesn't matter who gets the credit. Really doesn't.”
“For me, the first thing I do when I know I have to do the fastest skater is check my edges and make sure there's no nicks or anything like that.”
“Even when I wasn't on the ice, I was always on my rollerblades.”
“Everyone cheats.”
“I'm so proud to be in Edmonton.”
“The OHL compared to the NHL playoffs, I don't think they really compare. You can't really rely on that experience.”
“As a kid I wore my team's tracksuit all the time. Splash pants or track pants. I wore a hat every day. And then when I got to the NHL, guys would make fun of me that I had the worse style in the league.”
“It's a weird league in the sense that sometimes you get goals when they definitely shouldn't have gone in, and sometimes you're doing everything right and it's just not going in. It's the way it goes. I think every player who's ever played in this league has gone through it.”
“You can't just go out and buy players and make a super team, because it's so hard to do that. The salary cap doesn't allow it. We have a much smaller salary cap than the NBA, and they only have 12 on a roster.”
“If you're starting to lose the love of the game, it means you're not going to work as hard.”
“It's always tough when you're off the ice for a while when you've got to come back because you can't replicate the type of cardio that you need to play hockey and you can't really replicate skating at all. You can run as many stairs, or bike as many whatever on your spin bike as you want, but you can't replicate it at all.”
“My style was not good. It's definitely something that's grown over time.”
“After going through the playoffs, you definitely get a sense for how important it is to go through it at least once before you win.”
“You look at all the elite players around the League, the guys that are responsible defensively, the guys that can score at will, they kind of do it all.”
“I think I'm a guy that can relate to everyone and is fairly close with everyone on the team and can try to help bring guys together. That's what I tried to focus on when I was in Erie and I felt everyone was a part of the team. I definitely try to lead that way; I'm not the big rah-rah guy.”
“Whenever you trade away a key piece of your organization, somebody who's been there for a long time, it has to change everything.”
“I'm sure personal accolades are nice and you appreciate them very much. But it's about winning Cups and winning Olympics and winning World Cups and that kind of thing.”