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Oh No, Connor McDavid’s Home Is Unspeakably Chilling

https://defector.com/oh-no-connor-mc...ably-chilling/

Connor McDavid’s 8,000-square foot house was designed to entertain guests, as his girlfriend, interior designer Lauren Kyle, told the Edmonton lifestyle magazine Edify in July. By “guests,” she means, of course, various foot soldiers and associates of the Galactic Empire, who will feel at home indeed in this cavernous, grayscale, and kind of tragic abode.

Wealthy, 23 years old, and lacking a personality is a combination of traits in a homeowner that can only yield Bad Things, and oh, how it has. We must hurry and look at it quickly before its transfixing awfulness drains us of our capacity for human connection. The McDavid manse is home to, among many silly amenities, a wine bar, a frightening closet, a melancholy basketball court, half the world’s marble reserves, and “unfettered views” of the famed North Saskatchewan River valley.

Star of the kitchen—don’t stare too long—is this enormous hunk of “Calacutta Porcelain” that seats nine “people.” If you, say, lived here and from time to time required a sharp and firm surface to bash someone’s head into while murdering them in a grisly yet cinematic way, this would also probably do.