- Another essential for me is my deodorant it's Dove.
I'm pretty sure it's a woman's as well
and I've been using this for like five, six years now.
I can't stop I think it smells pretty nice.
It's a little embarrassing too
but don't fix what's not broken.
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What's up GQ I'm Auston Matthews
and these are my essentials.
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My first item my iPhone, AirPods
take it with me wherever I go,
gym, walking my dog, grocery store
can just strap those things in
and just kind of be on your way
and be in your own little world.
Pre-game I listen to most of the rap music.
I like Drake, Young Thug, Lil Baby, Gunna
kinda top four guys I guess
that I listen to and plenty more.
But for the most part I pretty much just listened to rap
for pre-game stuff.
My next essential is my hockey stick.
I use this pretty much every day
It's what I do, what I love.
So this is my stick CCM
my name bar says Papi 34.
It's kinda my nickname growing up
use this every day.
Kinda have to pretty essential for me
- [Interviewer] growing up in Southern California
and then Arizona.
How does a kid like that get into hockey?
- My uncle actually had season tickets to Coyote's games,
me and my dad would just kind of tag along with him
when I was probably two or three years old.
That's kind of where I first saw the game of hockey
and I guess I just kind of immediately wanted to play.
And that's kinda where it all started,
but neither my parents or family members
grew up playing hockey it was mostly just baseball
basketball and other sports like that.
So I'm the only person in my
I guess my family that I grew up playing hockey.
So some of my cousins started skating
and I think it's pretty amazing.
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Next essential.
My sneakers, my Air Force 1s
probably my favorite shoe.
These are my three favorite ones.
The Cactus Jack, a couple of Off-White ones,
I've always like Nike
I've always like Air Force 1s
they kind of go with everything
and it's just a pretty simple clean shoe.
- [Interviewer] How big is your sneaker collection?
- It's pretty big.
I feel like I kind of split half my shoes here
and half my shoes in Toronto.
I think if I kind of compiled all of them into one
I'd need a lot of space for it.
So it's definitely growing too.
I've always kind of been into jewelry.
And then I guess when I started playing in the NHL,
a lot of guys that I played with
had pretty nice watch collections
so kind of got into it.
This is my favorite one.
It's the GMT Master II Pepsi edition.
Pretty clean watch goes with anything
can wear the suit can wear with a t-shirt.
- [Interviewer] which of your teammates
has the craziest watch collection?
- It'd have to be Patrick Marleau
he has been playing the NHL for 20 plus years now.
So I played with him for a year
and we got really close.
So I've seen his collections of everything
but he's got some really nice watches in there.
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This is my body pillow.
I can't really sleep without it
I have one here I have one in Toronto.
And then usually when we're on the road,
I'll call down and get a couple extra pillows
but I can't really sleep
unless I have something in between my legs and arms.
So it's kind of a perfect fit.
And yeah I usually sleep like a baby
so pretty essential for my day-to-day life.
The next one my golf clubs.
So my off season when I'm not playing a lot of hockey
I play quite a bit of golf.
I stamped it with my initials and numbers there.
I've been playing probably for five, six years now
I'm not very good, but I have a lot of fun out there.
My sister actually plays
and she's a D1 golf player.
So I try to learn as much as I can from her
but I haven't beaten her too many times
so it kind of ruins my confidence.
Started playing honesty because
I needed something to do on the off season.
I used to play hockey like year round
so I needed to kinda take a little bit of a break
and find a different hobby.
So I started playing golf
and a little bit of tennis lately too
but for the most part golf for me.
Next one
would be my slides.
These are probably my three favorite ones.
So these are Dior's, Nike's and Uug.
In the summer this is pretty much all I wear
is a shorts t-shirt and socks and slides.
I like to keep it pretty casual and stay comfortable.
I like to mix it up too
these are kind of funky
but I mean, there's fun to wear.
Skates aren't exactly super comfortable,
especially when you're wearing for long periods of time.
But yeah, I mean in the summer pretty much just wear slides
and Air Force 1s that's pretty much it.
Xbox and Nintendo Switch.
I like to play video games
I kind of go through phases
where all I do is play video games
and I'll take a couple months off.
These are the two consoles I probably use the most.
I pretty much just play anything
NHL, Call of Duty, Fortnite then on the Switch
anything from Mario Party to Super Mega Baseball
which is actually our team's favorite game
to play on the road.
It's quite addicting, but it's a fun game to pass time.
Another essential for me is my deodorant it's Dove.
I'm pretty sure it's a woman's as well
I was a big Old Spice guy and then
I don't even know how I got into this.
I think I just wanted to find something like a spray
and I was in the men's section
and they only had like the sticks
and I've been using this for like five
six years now and I can't stop.
I think it smells pretty nice
it's pretty refreshing
and it's a little bit embarrassing too
but don't fix what's not broken.
My last essential would be my dog.
Fortunately, he's not here his name's Felix
he's actually away in obedient school.
So I don't get him back for another week or so
but I do miss them a lot
and he brightens up my day every day
even when he poops in my house or disobeys me.
So probably a good thing
he's learning to obey a little bit
but that's my final essential for you.
Thanks guys for checking out my essentials
we'll see you next time.