Oilers captain Connor McDavid will get engaged to longtime girlfriend Lauren Kyle

One in every of Edmonton’s most high-profile {couples} is getting married.

Hockey celebrity Connor McDavid proposed to his longtime girlfriend Lauren Kyle final Thursday.

“I can’t put into phrases how glad I’m to be spending the remainder of our lives collectively,” Kyle wrote in a publish asserting the engagement.

“Virtually eight years of progress, happiness and a lot love and I can’t consider we’ve a lot extra to look ahead to.”

The 26-year-old Edmonton Oilers captain and Kyle, who’s an inside designer and turned 27 on Monday, have been collectively since they had been 19.

“I knew you had been my particular person from the day we met and I can’t await the gorgeous life we’re going to create collectively,” she wrote.

Kyle moved to Edmonton after graduating from Ontario’s Toronto Metropolitan College in 2019. The couple has a miniature bernedoodle canine named Lenard, who has a sizeable 19K Instagram following.

She based her personal agency, Kyle and Co Design Studio, and designed the couple’s dwelling overlooking the North Saskatchewan River in Edmonton’s Laurier Heights space which was featured in Architectural Digest.

McDavid proposed in Muskoka, a cottage nation space in Ontario, the place Kyle has shared Instagram tales exhibiting a trip dwelling they’re constructing there. Each grew up in Ontario.

McDavid advised 630 CHED they had been spending a pleasant weekend with household at their place in Muskoka when he popped the query.

“Clearly numerous celebrating occurring now,” he mentioned, noting Kyle additionally turned 27 on Monday. “So heaps occurring with us.”

The hockey participant additionally posted concerning the engagement on Instagram.

“Excited to see what our future holds. You’re the most loving, passionate and superb particular person. I’m a really fortunate man,” McDavid wrote in his publish, by which he additionally wished his fiancee a cheerful birthday.

“Right here’s to many extra collectively. Love you heaps.”

Skilled pictures confirmed Kyle sporting a pear-shaped engagement ring after the proposal, the place the couple posed with their canine on a patio at sundown (Scroll down for extra pictures.)

The Oilers congratulated the couple on their respective Instagram posts.

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