Over the last couple of days, Connor McDavid and Auston Matthews have gone back and forth with a cryptic challenge leading many to speculate a collaboration between the stars could be coming. Connor McDavid and Auston Matthews continue to be two of the biggest stars in the entirety of the NHL. The combined stardom of the two led to raised eyebrows a couple of days ago as McDavid called out Matthews with a cryptic post on X. <div align='center' class='pl20 pr20'><blockquote class='twitter-tweet' data-lang='en'><a href='https://twitter.com/cmcdavid97/status/1874923038116122743'> </a></blockquote></div> This post on its own seemed very strange and out of the blue as McDavid is not all that active on social media particularly not with players from other teams. This evening a post from Matthews painted a full picture of what might be happening as it seems the two stars could be teaming up. <h3>Auston Matthews responds to Connor McDavid leading to major speculation of a team up</h3> This afternoon on X Matthews made an interesting post calling out McDavid challenging him to a trick shot of hitting a billboard. <div align='center' class='pl20 pr20'><blockquote class='twitter-tweet' data-lang='en'><a href='https://twitter.com/AM34/status/1875209955147743700'> </a></blockquote></div> This post clearly seems to indicate some sort of collaboration regarding a marketing or brand deal is coming. After doing some investigating many are hoping that the promotion involves McDonald's who posted a hockey themed teaser yesterday. <div align='center' class='pl20 pr20'><blockquote class='twitter-tweet' data-lang='en'><a href='https://twitter.com/McDonaldsCanada/status/1874833235353714803'> </a></blockquote></div> If Matthews and McDavid are going to do a promotion with McDonald's many expect it to be a recreation of the iconic advertisement featuring Wayne Gretzky and Mats Sundin which can be seen below. <div class='youtube_container'><iiffrraammee class='youtube_video' width='100%' frameborder='0' src=https://www.youtube.com/embed/eLmwElcaF7c?si=PpxqlJ5URhA5XrsH title=YouTube video player frameborder=0 allow=accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share referrerpolicy=strict-origin-when-cross-origin allowfullscreen></iiffrraammee></div> As of now, it remains to be seen whether an official announcement is made by McDonald's regarding this huge campaign but it seems very likely that we will see two of the game's biggest names facing off in a trick shot competition.