Sudbury-born wife of superstar shares superstitions, how she'll be watching Game 6

Ottawa Citizen

5 hours ago

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EDMONTON — Lauren Kyle McDavid plans to stand by the fireplace in her downtown Edmonton bar while watching Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final.
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It's the same spot where she watched her husband — Edmonton Oilers captain and superstar Connor McDavid — stickhandle a puck into a net in Game 5.
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'It's a feeling and, if anything positive happens, you got to stay in that position,' Kyle McDavid said with a laugh during an interview at her business on Monday.
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'It's really silly, but everyone has superstitions.'
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The 28-year-old interior designer and business owner says ensuring she's in the same position when the Oilers are playing, and wearing the same heels with the same red handbag, is a silly thing.
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But it goes to show how invested she is in the games, she said.
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So is her husband.
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'(Connor) does a lot of things before a game. He is extremely, extremely ritual-based. But I'm going to actually leave that as a secret.'
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The Oilers play the Florida Panthers in a make-or-break Game 6 on Tuesday. The Panthers, leading the series 3-2, could clinch the Cup on home ice, or the Oilers could push it to Game 7 in Edmonton on Friday.
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The Oilers lost to the Panthers in Game 7 during the Stanley Cup Final in 2024.
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'Now we're in the same position we are in last year, so there's more pressure around it,' said Kyle McDavid. 'At that same time, we've been here before … and we know what to do and we're prepared for this.'
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She said wives and girlfriends of other Oilers players will be joining her in watching Tuesday's game projected up on a wall at Bar Trove, which she opened earlier this month.
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She also owns an interior design firm, a furniture showroom and designs clothing for the Oilers. She also plans to release a cookbook this summer.
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Kyle McDavid said watching Oilers games with her girlfriends and generally spending time with them helps her get through the pressure of being in the limelight.
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'There's misconceptions around being a hockey wife and that's just an easy narrative for people to chime into. People assume that it's really easy. Our husbands are playing hockey, making money,' she said.
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'But it's actually very difficult. There's a lot of stress. There is such a strain on your family. People don't know about the struggles that are on the inside … I just quiet that noise, because there's a lot more positivity than negativity out there.'