Connor McDavid to Montreal speculation reaches a new level after insider's surprising comments
Renaud Lavoie just shut down the Connor McDavid-to-Montreal house-hunting story. The Edmonton Oilers captain never set foot at the Grand Prix.
The TVA Sports insider went on JiC Monday night and put a clean line through the weekend chatter. McDavid was not in Montreal. His wife was, for a separate event.
So the viral version, the one with the captain quietly touring properties between F1 sessions, gets buried before it ever had legs.
But the bigger conversation does not die that easily. Because Lavoie did not stop at the denial.
He pointed back to a September chat with an influential agent who told him there are not many rooms in the league where McDavid can lift a Stanley Cup. Montreal, in that agent's read, sits higher on the list than Pittsburgh.
Is that enough to move the needle? Not yet. But it explains why every Quebec radio hit, every podcast, every bar argument keeps circling back to the same name.
Why the Oilers captain keeps being linked to Montreal
The math is doing the talking. Edmonton finished 41-30-11 for 93 points and ranked 14th overall in the league this season, with a goal differential of plus-13.
That is not a contender's profile. That is a team that grinded its way in and ran into a wall, and McDavid felt it in his playoff numbers.
The Oilers captain produced 1 goal, 5 assists and a -8 rating in 6 playoff games before the season ended. For a player carrying a $12.5 million cap hit, that is the kind of exit that lingers all summer.
Meanwhile, the Canadiens finished 48-24-10 for 106 points, sixth overall, and 24-9-8 on the road. Different runway, different ceiling.
Kent Hughes and Martin St-Louis have spent the last two seasons turning a rebuild into a postseason team, with a young core that just played playoff hockey twice in a row.
And that is the part nobody can ignore. McDavid does not become a UFA until the summer of 2028, which is a long road, but the conversation has clearly started inside the industry.
Lavoie himself said it Monday: if McDavid ever gets fed up, does he steer toward a team with no chance, or toward one with a real shot? That question is not going away.
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For now, the only confirmed visitor to the Bell Centre region was Mrs. McDavid. The captain stayed home. The noise did not.
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