NHL star tries to explain bizarre ketchup 'phobia'

NHL prima Connor McDavid peeled backmost the curtain connected his "phobia" of ketchup connected Saturday nighttime pursuing the Edmonton Oilers' 3-2 nonaccomplishment to the Calgary Flames.

McDavid appeared connected Sportsnet’s "After Hours" programme aft a one-goal crippled against the Flames. A instrumentality question came into the broadcast and asked however McDavid is capable to negociate his utmost dislike of the condiment connected the road.

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Edmonton Oilers halfway Connor McDavid (97) skates against the Calgary Flames during the 2nd play astatine Scotiabank Saddledome connected Dec. 27, 2025. (Sergei Belski/Imagn Images)

He said his teammates knew to support it acold distant from him.

McDavid was past asked however the contented developed for him, and helium stated that it conscionable happened during his childhood.

"Honestly, you know, it stems from childhood, "McDavid said. "My brother’s the aforesaid way. Not definite wherever it came from. I’m gonna blasted it connected him. He’s worse than I am. I learned disconnected him, truthful instrumentality it up with him."

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Edmonton Oilers halfway Connor McDavid (97) waits for play to resume during the archetypal play of an NHL hockey crippled against the Minnesota Wild, Saturday, Dec. 20, 2025, successful St. Paul, Minnesota. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)

He couldn’t sanction 1 happening helium liked astir it.

"I don’t cognize what it is," helium said. "The texture, it’s the look of it, it’s everything. … I deliberation it’s a phobia, yeah."

McDavid’s wife, Lauren, archetypal revealed the player’s contented with ketchup during Amazon’s "FACEOFF: Inside the NHL." He was adamant past twelvemonth that it was conscionable thing that helium and his member grew up with.

Edmonton Oilers' Connor McDavid (97) celebrates Zach Hyman's (18) extremity connected the Calgary Flames during 2nd play NHL enactment successful Edmonton, Alberta, Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2025. (Amber Bracken/The Canadian Press via AP)

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Heinz Ketchup’s Canada societal media relationship besides poked amusive astatine McDavid past October.

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