Connor McDavid
Connor McDavid was born on January 13, 1997, in Canada. He attended McDowell High School, which formed part of his educational background during his formative years. A Canadian citizen who communicates in English, McDavid grew up within a national context that shaped the early stages of his life and career.
McDavid's occupation is that of an ice hockey player, and his career has been marked by the receipt of several individual honors within the sport. He received the Art Ross Trophy, the Hart Memorial Trophy, and the Ted Lindsay Award. These three awards represent distinct forms of recognition within professional ice hockey, and McDavid has received all of them over the course of his career as a player.
The combination of the Art Ross Trophy, the Hart Memorial Trophy, and the Ted Lindsay Award situates McDavid among those ice hockey players who have accumulated multiple forms of individual distinction. His Canadian citizenship and his background at McDowell High School mark the personal and geographic coordinates from which his career as a professional ice hockey player developed.
Quotes by Connor McDavid
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.
Every year is a new year, and when you look at the turnover year to year, teams that made the playoffs last year aren't a guarantee to make the playoffs this year.
I think when I first came into the League, I was blowing the zone all the time, just kind of expecting pucks to get out. You learn very quickly that you can't be doing that.
Being solid in your own zone, being a good faceoff guy, those are things that are all important as you go deep in the playoffs.
Whenever you trade away a key piece of your organization, somebody who's been there for a long time, it has to change everything.
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.
I'm trying to work on it - not cheating, stopping in the 'D' zone, all that kind of stuff.
