Connor McDavid Talks Shooting More, Expectations For Oilers & More | 32 Thoughts 

The one thing I've always loved about Hockey is the humility of it's superstars compared to other sports, this dude is arguably the most talented player to ever touch a puck, and he's polite not talking a bunch of crap, ups his teamates and other players. Lets go McJesus hope you win a cup someday.

This is the most personality he’s ever shown in an interview. Great questions. He looks relaxed here.

I love McDavid. He’s never making waves or causing problems. Just focused and positive!

“Start by scoring 50”. Buddies at 57 in 69 games…..😂. He’s unreal and I hope he gets to 70!

Connor seems a lot more comfortable in front of the camera these days. Nice to hear him open up more.

I love how McDavid & Matthews have so much respect for each other, they always watch each other’s plays & learn off each other’s games instead of choosing to be rivals.

He looks leaner . I bet his speed and stamina are even more off the charts this season ...

Great interview guys. You could tell he was as comfortable as he’s going to be in this type of setting. Nice to see. Sometimes it’s nice to see the media have nice chill sit downs with the stars who are more comfortable rather than in a scrum or out in public when they are trying to shop.

Rare McDavid personality shining through

Don’t give up kids. This guy is the best player in the NHL and he looks like an average dude. You don’t need to look like a bodybuilder to be good at hockey. No matter your body type, work on skating, stick skills and stamina. Train hard and you can become great.

One of his most honest interviews to date! Real answers

Well he lived up to it...52 goals and counting...not to mention 5 straight multi goal games

Great interview from both sides.

This is my first time seeing him in a nice chill interview environment and I like him a lot better

As a Flyers fan facing another train wreck season , I’m excited to watch Connor have a banner year. He is so mesmerizing and exciting to watch and has brought the game to another level.

Spanking the snot out of CGY with a one leg Drai will always be a lasting memory lol

Elliotte Friedman seems like such a beauty...also great series with all these players.

Love how humble majority of hockey players are.

As a Canucks fan all I can say is McDavid is fun to watch and reminds me of Pavel Bure. Tremendous talent very humbled.

how can he be so humble when he is the best of the best...wow im just so impressive by this man

Stay healthy McDavid, ya got a bright future young man!

This guy trains like hes avoiding the cut list. Absolute animal. Its not all God given talent, its mostly hard work. All you kids take note. Practice when you get home from practice.

It's awesome to hear what's on mcdavid's mind

McDavid should hit 50 goals this year

I love that he asked that sherwood question

Loven this team!! Go Oilers!

Some great scorers really thrive on setting up scoring outcomes. Gaudreau has expressed a preference for assisting .

Dude you ARE one of the best athletes of all time

Nice to see decent questions for a change from Edmonton media! He needs to shoot more and faceoff work still.

Nice improvement on the faceoff wins this past season... adding Kane sure as heck helped.

The flow and beard, grow it back please

And here we are. 62 goals. Unbelievable what this guy can do

Can you imagine Makar playing in Edmonton and having McDavid as a linemate. Good Grief that team would be unstoppable.

This is the first entertaining McDavid interview ever

I know right now is his "Prime" but seriously imagine how good he will be in his 30's once he hits his full man strength

50 goals tonight and 60 looks like a given.

played on his team when I was 6, my mom said I was always pissed cause I never touched the puck he never passed! haha but we still won 20-0 every game, even in tournaments 2 years up!! crazy.. remember seeing him at 6 on a breakaway from the bench and he shot it over the net and wrapped around his own shot before they caught up. i couldnt even raise the puck lol

Connor dressed like he's about to go into an interview for some tech company.

Its interesting to listen to him talking about the Captaincy here. I have always believed he was given the Captaincy too young. He already had an immense amount of pressure and huge expectations put onto him because he was "The Next One" and then the Oilers organisation decides to heap on the role of Captain? He was too young and too inexperienced at that time. He deserved the chance to simply be a player first and foremost and develop himself at the NHL level. Then, gradually take on a leadership role starting with becoming an Alternate Captain before eventually getting the Captaincy. How much of the losing problems after the 2017 playoffs could be attributed to the lack of experienced leaders on the team? Probably a good amount of the issues were having such a young and inexperienced core. I don't think it is a coincidence that they have only become a consistently competitive team AFTER all these core players aged up and became older more experienced players. McDavid could still be the Captain at this point, you can even see how last season 2021-2022 and this season 2022-2023 he has really stepped up to the plate and grabbed onto this role with more confidence. I think he will continue to improve as the leader of the Oiles year over year going forward. But if they would have held off for the first few seasons, then gone to an Alternate role for another few seasons, and finally give him the Captaincy at this point now then at least he would have built up to that responsibility. This would have been better for his overall development and likely his stress levels too. I sincerely doubt that he was able to positively lead his team in the role of the "Captain" until much more recently and was probably deferring to the more veteran players or the Alternates because he didn't know what to do or how to take control on a team that had people much more experienced who understood and were capable of performing the leadership roles better than himself. It is very difficult to step up and become a leader and it shouldn't be something that is just handed to people who have neither earned it nor shown that they are capable of handling it. That is not helpful to anyone. It is certainly not helpful to McDavid himself! You can see in this interview he did not think he was ready. There is no need for it to have happened in the first place. Sports teams need to think about these choices more carefully in the future and be sure that they are properly structuring the leadership groups of their teams in a way that is actually helpful to the team and to the individuals on the team. They should not just give out leadership roles because they think they can sell more jerseys to the fans if they have a "C" on it or whatever nonsense went into the management's decision making process for McDavid's Captaincy at such a young age. It is a vital role that has a real life impact on the player and on the team and it should not be handed out willy-nilly.

imagine Leon and Connor both 60 goals holly

“It’s nice to come to Toronto, it’s even better leaving” Connor Mcdavid 2020

oilers 2023 cup champs baby

Elliot is so right about that “McDavid glare” lol

insane watching this interview for the first time now that he's had the season that he had.

Wayne Gretzky summed it up like this and I quote ( This is my puck, go get your own )

Didn't McDavid have that knee injury in the following season? The prior season to 16-17 it was his Clavicle right. The 15-16 Oilers followed by the 16-17/17-18 squads, didn't they suffer from defensive-itis - reason they needed to improve D? By that I mean, Bakersfield was new in 15-16 (brand new AHL club from Okla Cit), multiple players injured in 15-16 onward, they couldn't rely on their D nor their farm team ... it was brand spanking new.

It is tough to compare yourself to one of the greatest athlete of all time but you are also one of the greatest athletes of all time so it should be acceptable

The only area we got worse in this off-season is emotional leadership, Mike Smith was so important for mentoring and leadership which made him easy to cheer for a love for me; so I wanted to him to stick around (don't get me wrong, I love Skinner and I'm sure I'll love Campbell). He is technically with the team being on LTIR. He was hugely underrated last season and the playoffs. Yeah he had his uh... "moments" but he also had his MOMENTS. I'll miss him and I hope the Oilers can make up for the emotional loss of Smitty and Keith.

Like how clean looking he is. Quite professional. Keep it up bud

This aged really well, he hit 50 and 60

Best player of all time.

64 goals and 151 points in 80 games. Insanity. 2 games left

My captain 💙🧡💙🧡💙🧡

nice of mr dahmer to sit down for an interview !

Amazing person

A good healthy relationship 😊

He should grow out his hair, he had a sick flow

you are the best l watch you when you play in Belleville l was goal judgu

Go oilers 😊

Only difference between him and other elite players is that he's been elite since day one.

HE GONNA BE SUCCESSFUL

He did not joke when he said he is practicing his shot and want to score more.... 12 goals in 12 games

I wonder who the younger player is that he said he pushed too hard at one point. Yamamoto? McLeod? Puljujärvi?

Worlds best hockey player!!

WOW 👏 ❤

Man when he talked Makar I was brought back to the stupid offside goal (if you read the rule book the refs got it wrong) that lead to the challenge that lead to the penalty that led to the goal which made the avs win that game

Such a clean cut kid. Did Connor grow up over the summer?

And just like that, he looks 19 again.

Congratulations Connor

For someone who says he's blunt ( at least to Leon) he gives the most greyist answers to every question.

It's great that McDavid and Draisaitl are better than they think but it's also annoying watching them give up an easy to goal to pass it to someone else (and it's also very nice of them and great for team chemistry, but come on just shoot it)

GOAT

This aged well. Mcsixty!

Талановита людина!!!

This McDavid kid could be quite the player

This guy is about to get over 45 goals again, just an whole complete player.

165pts this Season. Calling it

Should’ve asked what he got up to in the summer 👀

Big Hockey Canada guy

Go Oilers !!!

McDavid makes all other players…..including Matthews’ look average!!

Shout out the Erie Otters

Mcdavid is going to go off this year if he shoots more and passes less.

Conner is the best in the nhl

The Best player in the league....Jesus Christ 97

Starting to look a lot like his dad, especially with the clean cut

Kadri vs McDavid let's go

Welp this was prophetic

60 with 10 games left

He looks like he’s about to score 150pts

Looks like zack from little people, big world!

At look at him now, 60goals scored with 10games remaining, 70? lets go

Connor Mcdavid

Mcdavid is gonna be the next gretzky to win the cup

He’s gonna break Gretzkys record for the most art Ross trophies

not to be the grammar police but it's not "Leo and I's" it's "mine and Leo's" We're taught to put the other person first but it's not always the case!

Sorry 1st time I’ve seen McJesus since the drunken hand holding video, are we not going there?

Messi of hockey

Alpha stud

60 goals at least for 97!