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Yahoo
03-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Lauren Kyle McDavid is married to one of the world's most famous hockey players — but she's more than just a WAG
"Edmonton has changed exponentially [since I first moved here]," Lauren Kyle McDavid said on a Wednesday afternoon, donning a bare face and dark-rimmed glasses. Kyle McDavid, the wife of Edmonton Oilers star player Connor McDavid — or The Chosen One, McJesus or McSaviour, as he's referred to in Oil Country — is calling from her Trove Living office. "When I first started dating Connor, [...] the downtown really wasn't developed whatsoever," she said. "Now, with the new rink and all of the new developments and businesses that are flooding into the downtown core, it's a lot more vibrant. More walkable. It's more communal. There's a sense of vibrancy and action. It's changed tremendously." Kyle McDavid, an interior designer and entrepreneur, hopes to contribute to the city's revitalized downtown area with her two new businesses: Bar Trove, a European-inspired bar, and Trove Living, a furniture showroom. Have you ever wondered what the world's most interesting, successful and talented people are adding to their shopping carts? Yahoo Canada's new series, , is exploring just that. From the supplement regime of professional athletes to supermodel-approved skincare, this is what celebrities actually spend their money on. "I want Trove to be a place that you feel really comfortable to walk in, somewhere you feel transported in," she told Yahoo Canada over a video call. "A place that is a go-to spot to spend time, connect and be with friends in the community." Originally from Sudbury, Ont., Kyle McDavid has immersed herself in Edmonton life — and the city's enthusiastic hockey culture — since the Oilers drafted her soon-to-be boyfriend, Connor McDavid, for their 2015-16 season. The couple began dating shortly thereafter in 2016 and married in a "timeless" ceremony in Muskoka, Ont., in July 2024 Edmonton has the "best fans," she said. They're "very passionate people. I love that everyone feels a sense of identity with the team; they feel at home." Attending games as the wife of the Oilers' most famous player — and having a large social media presence of her own — comes with a "built-in pressure," Kyle McDavid said. The McDavids are household names in Edmonton, but the Trove Living founder doesn't let the pressure get to her. "I continue to be myself and not let the public eye affect how I show up for things," she said. "For me, going to the games after I have a really busy day of work, my social battery gets filled." In addition to Bar Trove and Trove Living, Kyle McDavid launched Sports Club Atelier, a premium sportswear brand, in December 2024. "I wanted to create something that I wanted to wear myself. I go to so many games, and it's fun to dress up as a fan, but I want to dress as a fan [in a way] that I feel comfortable and I feel like I'm expressing my personal style," she said. From her favourite Sports Club Atelier jacket to a $110 hand soap that she's "oddly" obsessed with, here are five things Lauren Kyle McDavid is Adding to Cart. "I've adapted to the weather now that I've been here for so long, but as I was going back and forth [to southern Ontario] when I was dating Connor, [Alberta's dry weather] was such a shock to the system. My lips would get so chapped, it would look so bad," she said. "I use this grapeseed oil whenever I'm super dry. It's from First Aid Beauty. It's super hydrating. Anytime I'm a little patchy with dry patches or dry spots, I put that on and it helps tremendously." "I always wear [Alo Yoga's] sweatsuit sets because I feel like they're a bit more dressed up for a sweatsuit set," Kyle McDavid said. "You can almost wear it out or wear it to work. If I don't have a heavy day of meetings, I'll throw that on." "I'm not the best with a skincare routine, but I like using tools, like red light," Kyle McDavid told Yahoo Canada. "I think it's really important. Gua sha is really important. You noticeably see a difference when you use them because your face feels more sculpted and less swollen." "With all the travelling I do, it's important to stay on [top of] those routines," she added. "[I use] NuFace a lot. Medicube is another one that I use for overall skin health. I use my Kala Red Light Face Mask every couple of nights. I use them religiously for skin health." "Oddly, I love my hand soap in our powder room," Kyle McDavid said over a video chat. "It's this tomato hand soap [from Loewe] that smells so unique and fresh. There's also one from Flamingo Estates that has a similar scent that's a little less bougie." Kyle McDavid launched Sports Club Atelier because she "saw a gap in the market that needed to be filled with more fashion-forward athleticwear pieces," she told Yahoo Canada. "I wanted to create something that I wanted to wear myself. I go to so many games and it's fun to dress up as a fan, but I want to dress as a fan [in a way] that I feel comfortable and I feel like I'm expressing my personal style." Currently, Sports Club Atelier includes Edmonton Oilers-themed styles, but eventually, Kyle McDavid hopes to expand to other NHL teams and sports. Her favourite piece right now? "The orange suede jacket or the utility jacket."
Time of India
26-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
From Hockey wife to lifestyle queen: The wife of Connor McDavid, Lauren Kyle McDavid, launches new business in Edmonton days after Connor's cup loss
Fans Pour in Love for Lauren Kyle McDavid's new launch (Credit: Instagram/@trovelivingca) Connor McDavid of the Edmonton Oilers kisses his wife Lauren Kyle (Credit: Getty Images) Fans Pour in Love for Lauren Kyle McDavid's new launch (Credit: Instagram/@trovelivingca) Connor McDavid of the Edmonton Oilers kisses his wife Lauren Kyle (Credit: Getty Images) Fans Pour in Love for Lauren Kyle McDavid's new launch (Credit: Instagram/@trovelivingca) 1 2 Lauren Kyle McDavid, known to many as the wife of Edmonton Oilers captain Connor McDavid, is making her mark far beyond the rink. Just days after her husband's heartbreaking Stanley Cup Final loss to the Florida Panthers, she opened Trove Living, a polished 9,000 square foot furniture showroom and lifestyle hub in Edmonton. The wife of Connor McDavid, Lauren Kyle McDavid's interview with Forbes(Credit: Instagram/@laurenkyle1) Why the wife of Connor McDavid, Lauren Kyle McDavid, wanted more than just a studio For years, Lauren Kyle McDavid worked behind the scenes on stylish design projects for private clients. But after growing her business portfolio and gaining national attention, she felt the need for something tangible, something people could experience without needing an appointment. She's candid about how essential it is to have a partner who understands what it means to pursue ambitious goals. With Connor entrenched in playoff mode, Lauren was fully locked into launching her business. Yet, their ability to show up for each other has made both pursuits possible. It's a bold move, but one that suits Lauren's personality and professional ambition. She designed the space to feel elegant but approachable, a place where style meets lifestyle, and where every detail reflects her ethos. The wife of Connor McDavid, Lauren Kyle McDavid's interview with Forbes (Credit: Instagram/@laurenkyle1) How does the wife of Connor McDavid, Lauren Kyle McDavid, balance pressure and passion While Connor McDavid pushed toward a Stanley Cup, Lauren Kyle McDavid was pushing through final construction and launch prep. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Stylish New Mobility Scooters Available for Seniors (Take a Look) Mobility Scooter | Search Ads Search Now Undo The Forbes feature highlights how both share a grind mentality, supporting each other even when their professional paths are at their peak simultaneously. Bar Trove, tucked inside the new showroom, is already building buzz on social media. It's more than a trendy spot; it's a symbol of how Lauren Kyle McDavid has taken her style and turned it into a fully formed brand. Fans Pour in Love for Lauren Kyle McDavid's Bold New Move Fans are raving over Lauren Kyle McDavid's chic new venture, calling it 'so chic' and 'exciting.' From fellow designers to loyal followers, the support has been pouring in with love and celebration. Fans Pour in Love for Lauren Kyle McDavid's new launch (Credit: Instagram/@trovelivingca) She continues to expand her influence in the design and lifestyle world, one thing is clear: she's building a legacy of her own, one room and one glass of wine at a time. Also Read: NHL trade rumor: Mitch Marner and his wife Stephanie Marner reportedly spotted house-hunting in Las Vegas, sparking the latest buzz Game On Season 1 continues with Mirabai Chanu's inspiring story. Watch Episode 2 here.
Time of India
26-06-2025
- Business
- Time of India
Lauren Kyle McDavid drops game-changing business launch as Connor McDavid's future stays unclear
Lauren Kyle drops game-changing business launch as Connor McDavid's future stays unclear (Image via Getty) A surprising new project from Edmonton Oilers captain Connor McDavid's wife, Lauren Kyle McDavid, has quietly become a local hit. While Connor's on the ice dominating games, Kyle has opened Trove Living, a furniture showroom and cozy gathering spot in downtown Edmonton. Her fresh take on design is winning fans and giving Edmonton a new reason to talk style. Connor McDavid's wife Lauren Kyle McDavid builds Trove Living and Bar Trove with bold vision Lauren Kyle McDavid opened her showroom, Trove Living, this spring in the historic Canada Permanent building in Edmonton. She designed the 9,000-square-foot space to house her interior design firm, Kyle & Co, and Bar Trove, a place for guests to sip and shop. 'I wanted people to experience what I create,' she told the Edmonton Journal on June 24, 2025. Renovation work brought her vision to life, blending historic charm with modern design. She said the space fits her love of hosting. From client meetings to lunch with friends, the showroom doubles as a warm community hub. Kyle uses it to show off both furniture and her flair for cozy, inviting spaces. Connor McDavid's wife Lauren Kyle McDavid expands into fashion and community support Kyle didn't stop at furniture. Earlier this year, she launched Sports Club Atelier, a sportswear brand featuring elevated unisex apparel. The brand has released two limited collections of Oilers gear. It plans to add more NHL teams this fall and will collaborate with Team Canada ahead of the 2026 Winter Olympics. Also Read: NHL Trade Rumors: Connor McDavid Sparks Debate As Tampa Bay Targets $76 Million Brayden Point In Blockbuster Swap Lauren also sits on the Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation board alongside Leon Draisaitl's wife, Celeste Desjardins. The group has donated over $2.5 million and supports youth and vulnerable families in Edmonton. Kyle credits her interior design and fashion efforts to her creative roots in her Toronto days at Toronto Metropolitan University. Even while balancing her businesses, she makes time for Connor's hockey journey. She shared that Connor began gifting her business-coaching sessions early on to help her grow. 'He's coached me for four years now,' she shared in a May 2025 interview with Vogue Australia . With Trove Living, Sports Club Atelier, and community work, Lauren Kyle McDavid is proving she's just as dedicated to Edmonton as her husband is to hockey. Game On Season 1 continues with Mirabai Chanu's inspiring story. Watch Episode 2 here.
Forbes
25-06-2025
- Business
- Forbes
Edmonton Oilers Captain's Wife Lauren Kyle McDavid Is All Business
Connor McDavid and Lauren Kyle pose together at the 2023 NHL Awards in Nashville. (Photo by Bruce ...) While Connor McDavid skates circles around opponents as one of the top players in the National Hockey League, his wife Lauren Kyle McDavid is on a mission to share her style sensibilities in their home market of Edmonton. Kyle's latest venture is a furniture showroom, Trove Living, which opened this spring. The space also houses the offices of her interior design company, Kyle & Co, and an intimate gathering space, Bar Trove. 'I've always wanted to have a brick and mortar,' Kyle said last week, just days after McDavid's Edmonton Oilers fell to the Florida Panthers in the 2025 Stanley Cup Final. 'I feel like everything that I work on with clients, it was kind of behind the scenes. I wanted the general public to experience something that I created, so it was really inspired by my ethos and I think that's where Trove Living was a natural extension from our design firm.' Lauren Kyle McDavid (l) and business partner Brittany Schulz (r) at their Edmonton furniture ... More showroom, Trove Living. Once she settled on the historic Canada Permanent building in downtown Edmonton, the renovation brought her vision to life. 'The building itself, I think, really set a precedent for what I was doing,' she said. 'We had so much space in that building — it's, like, 9,000 square feet. So moving the design firm made sense. Then we had so much extra space and we were like, 'It would be nice to have somewhere where people can go.' Maybe do a little shopping for a small gift, and then they can go have lunch. Or they're coming from a meeting at our office and we can get them a reservation downstairs. It just made sense. And myself, as a person — I love hosting. I love making people feel good. I love cooking. So it it was a natural extension of that as well.' While rumors swirl about whether or not McDavid will sign a contract extension with the Oilers after he becomes eligible on July 1, his wife is putting down strong roots in the city with her many ventures. After meeting McDavid as a 19-year-old in 2016, the interior design student at what is now known as Toronto Metropolitan University used her education to design the couple's Edmonton home, which was featured in a 2021 spread in Architectural Digest. As it turns out, the collarbone injury that cost McDavid 37 games in his rookie season in 2015-16 came with a silver lining. While he was out of action and going through rehab, McDavid's NHL housemate Luke Gazdic happened to be dating Kyle's cousin. 'One night on FaceTime, Connor was in the background and was like, 'Do you have anyone you can set me up with?' She's like, 'Oh, my cousin. You might really like her.' They set us up on, I would say, a blind-ish date in Toronto, and that's how we met.' The relationship progressed quickly. 'We had gone on a dinner date. We saw each other next day, and then the timing worked out that he was rehabbing in Edmonton and I had a break from school so I was like, 'I'll come visit you,'' she recalled. 'After our first date, it felt like we had known each other for 10 years.' Now they have. She has been by McDavid's side for all five of his scoring titles and his three Hart Trophies as NHL MVP (2017, 2021, 2023). Kyle made the move from Toronto to Edmonton after finishing school in 2019, and launched Kyle & Co soon after. And in the summer of 2024, the couple was married in a stunning ceremony in Ontario's cottage country that earned feature treatment in Australian Vogue. More weddings are on the agenda this summer. McDavid's older brother, Cameron is getting married, and McDavid's Oilers teammate, Leon Draisaitl, is marrying actress Celeste Desjardins — a close friend of Kyle's since their high-school days in Sudbury, Ont. Kyle made that introduction, and believes the relationship has strengthened the bond between the Oilers' two best players. Last September, Draisaitl signed his own eight-year extension to stay in Edmonton. 'I know that they have their own friendship, but I think it's also because we have such a close friendship that they've gotten really close,' she said. 'It's a dream to have your best friend on the team here, and they get along so well. You can't ask for anything better than that.' Kyle, Desjardins and Oilers defenseman Mattias Ekholm's wife, Ida Bjornstad, also serve on the board of the Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation, which has long supported vulnerable residents in the region and delivered youth hockey opportunities to under-represented groups. Earlier this year, Kyle also launched her new clothing brand, Sports Club Atelier. The premium sportswear label offers elevated unisex designs in limited-edition drops. The brand was born from Kyle's involvement in designing the playoff jackets for the Oilers' wives and girlfriends. 'I'm not a graphic designer, but I was starting to learn how to use my programs from back in school and generate designs,' she said. 'I was starting to work with manufacturers, so I had a little bit of knowledge, and then it just made sense to start the collection. I really saw a gap in the market.' Early signs suggest that her intuition was correct. 'I don't see it being NHL, or just hockey,' she said. 'There's a lot of opportunity with the brand.' So far, Sports Club Atelier has dropped two limited-edition collections of Oilers apparel. Several other NHL teams are coming on board this fall, and the company is also collaborating with Canadian Finals Rodeo, which will take place in Edmonton in early October. Perhaps the biggest news is a collaboration with Team Canada ahead of next February's 2026 Winter Olympics. 'The intention is to have a wide variety of offerings for people going to the Olympics and supporting Team Canada next year,' she said. 'And we're going to be in major retailers. We're chatting with major retailers right now for Team Canada stuff.' Though she hadn't started out looking to work in fashion, the field had always been of interest. 'I think, when you're creative, you're interested in everything that that inspires you creatively,' she said. 'For me, I look at fashion to inspire my interiors, everything overlaps each other. So it's natural that I would be interested in art, fashion. Anything that gets my creative mind going.' Kyle's efforts have been fully supported by her husband. In fact, McDavid made a game-changing gesture early on when he gifted his then-girlfriend with some business-coach sessions for her birthday. 'I've been working with her for four years now,' Kyle said. 'We meet three times a month, and I don't think I could open this many businesses without her guidance. I think there's a way of thinking that you need to develop when you're an entrepreneur. I'm a creative — I'm not a business mind first. So I need to train myself in how to build teams properly and how to set myself up for success and to constantly drive myself forward. I wouldn't be here, for sure, without her.' She sees parallels between her ventures and McDavid's quest to win the Stanley Cup and, next February, Olympic gold. 'We both have dreams that we're chasing, and we can relate around that,' she said. 'We both know how we need to show up for each other in those moments and how we need to support each other in order to reach our goals. It's really important to have a partner like that, who does understand and does provide support, because you need all the support you can get when he's grinding through the playoffs and I'm grinding through opening businesses.' The team at Bar Trove Just as NHL players use their summers to train and come back stronger than ever when hockey returns in the fall, Kyle will be working remotely for much of the off-season, checking in with her teams at Trove Living and Bar Trove and moving the fashion line forward. Her plate may look full, but Lauren Kyle McDavid is just getting started.
Ottawa Citizen
17-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Ottawa Citizen
Sudbury-born wife of superstar shares superstitions, how she'll be watching Game 6
Article content EDMONTON — Lauren Kyle McDavid plans to stand by the fireplace in her downtown Edmonton bar while watching Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final. Article content 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. Article content '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. Article content Article content 'It's really silly, but everyone has superstitions.' Article content Article content 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. Article content But it goes to show how invested she is in the games, she said. Article content So is her husband. Article content '(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.' Article content 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. Article content The Oilers lost to the Panthers in Game 7 during the Stanley Cup Final in 2024. Article content '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.' Article content Article content 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. Article content 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. Article content 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. Article content '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. Article content '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.'
