Connor McDavid has faced 31 NHL franchises. Against one he shoots 22%. Against another he shoots 10%. One club has given up 10 of his game-winners and four have given up none.
All of it comes out of the same table, the full record of which is in our account of Connor McDavid’s points against every NHL team. What follows is that table sorted ten different ways, through the 2025-26 season.
Which team does Connor McDavid score most against?
The Utah Mammoth franchise, at 0.78 goals a game.
| Goals per game | GP | |
|---|---|---|
| Utah Mammoth (mostly as Arizona) | 0.78 | 32 |
| Calgary Flames | 0.65 | 46 |
| Colorado Avalanche | 0.63 | 27 |
| Career | 0.52 | 794 |
Calgary is the one that counts. Forty-six games is McDavid’s joint-largest sample against anybody, and he has scored 30 goals in them. The Battle of Alberta is on the schedule four times a winter, and if you want to watch the next one, our guide to how to watch the Calgary Flames has the channels.
Which team does Connor McDavid score least against?
Montreal, at 0.31 goals a game, less than two thirds of his career rate.
| Goals per game | GP | |
|---|---|---|
| Montreal Canadiens | 0.31 | 29 |
| Winnipeg Jets | 0.34 | 38 |
| St. Louis Blues | 0.37 | 30 |
Hold on to the Winnipeg row. It comes back twice.
Which team does Connor McDavid set up most against?
Columbus, at 1.35 assists a game, with Winnipeg a hundredth behind on nearly twice the sample.
| Assists per game | GP | |
|---|---|---|
| Columbus Blue Jackets | 1.35 | 20 |
| Winnipeg Jets | 1.34 | 38 |
| Nashville Predators | 1.30 | 27 |
| Career | 1.02 | 794 |
At the other end, Minnesota has held him to 0.75 assists a game and Los Angeles to 0.76.
Which team does Connor McDavid shoot best and worst against?
Best against the Utah franchise at 22.5%. Worst against Winnipeg at 10.2%.
| Shooting % | Shots | Goals | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah Mammoth (mostly as Arizona) | 22.5 | 111 | 25 |
| Columbus Blue Jackets | 19.0 | 58 | 11 |
| Calgary Flames | 18.6 | 161 | 30 |
| Career | 15.1 | 2,713 | 409 |
| Chicago Blackhawks | 11.8 | 93 | 11 |
| Montreal Canadiens | 11.0 | 82 | 9 |
| Winnipeg Jets | 10.2 | 127 | 13 |
Winnipeg is now on three of these lists: second-best for assists, second-worst for goals, worst of all for shooting. He has taken 127 shots against the Jets, more than against all but two clubs, and scored 13 times. In the same 38 games he has 51 assists, his joint-highest against anybody. He shoots more, scores less and passes more against Winnipeg than against almost anyone in the league.
Which team does Connor McDavid take the most penalties against?
Vancouver, and not narrowly.
| PIM per game | Total PIM | GP | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vancouver Canucks | 0.98 | 45 | 46 |
| Los Angeles Kings | 0.89 | 33 | 37 |
| Calgary Flames | 0.70 | 32 | 46 |
| Career | 0.42 | 330 | 794 |
All three are Pacific Division clubs. Vancouver alone accounts for 14% of McDavid’s career penalty minutes from 6% of his games.
Keep the numbers in proportion. McDavid’s whole career sits at 330 penalty minutes. Bob Probert took 383 against Toronto alone, and 3,300 in total, which is laid out club by club in Bob Probert’s penalty minutes against every NHL team.
Which teams does Connor McDavid behave himself against?
Four clubs have taken exactly two minutes off him in his entire career: Boston, Detroit, Florida and the New York Rangers. By rate, Minnesota is the cleanest matchup on the board at 0.14 penalty minutes a game, a seventh of his Vancouver figure.
Which team has Connor McDavid beaten most often by himself?
Calgary, with ten game-winning goals out of the 76 he has scored.
| Game-winners | GP | |
|---|---|---|
| Calgary Flames | 10 | 46 |
| Vancouver Canucks | 7 | 46 |
| Utah Mammoth (mostly as Arizona) | 5 | 32 |
Four franchises have never lost a game to a McDavid winner: Boston, Carolina, Dallas and New Jersey. Between them that is 78 games.
Which team does Connor McDavid look worst against on the ice?
Tampa Bay, at minus 13 across 16 games, and it is the strangest row in the whole table.
McDavid has 21 points in those 16 games, which is above his career rate. Tampa Bay is also the only franchise in the league he has scored more goals against than he has set up, at 13 and 8. He produces against Tampa, and Edmonton loses the games anyway.
At the other end, San Jose is plus 30 across 37 games, his best figure against anybody.
READ MORE: How to watch the Edmonton Oilers in 2026-27
Which team does Connor McDavid need the power play against?
Pittsburgh and Washington, where 5 of his 11 goals against each have come with the man advantage, against a career share of 24%.
Columbus is the opposite and the cleanest example of it: 11 goals against the Blue Jackets, none of them on the power play.
Which team does Connor McDavid shoot at most?
Vancouver, 164 shots in 46 games, one more than Calgary’s 161 in the same number of games. By rate it is Ottawa, at 3.93 shots a game against a career 3.42.
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