Si vous ne l’avez pas vu, plus tôt ce soir, selon le Twitter des Blackhawks, Brendan Smith a égalisé Connor Bedard, ce qui l’a obligé à quitter le match. Voici le succès : [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ytp5sm-J–c](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ytp5sm-J–c) Message des Blackhawks confirmant que Bédard ne reviendra pas [https://twitter.com/NHLBlackhawks/status/1743438547393405219](https://twitter.com/NHLBlackhawks/status/1743438547393405219)
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He left the game after that hit? Really? It honestly wasn’t that big of a hit.
Got a shoulder right to the face. No surprise he left after that
Kids *really* gotta learn to take hits better. This feels like it has all the hallmarks of nobody hit this kid coming up through junior leagues.
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Sucks that he left but the hit was clean.
Looks like it hit him in the jaw pretty good. He’s not a huge guy to be taking hits.
Damn, clean hit but sucks that he’s out for the game. Just looks like he had a weird impact because it didn’t look that hard, maybe chin to shoulder and a couple broken teeth, he’ll be back. Retaliation wasn’t even really needed on that one, just an unfortunate collision
Fucking A, classic case of a child never having taken a hit before, trying to skate through the middle of the ice, through 3 opposing players, thinking nothing will happen.
Hopefully it is a wake up call.
Clean hit by the defending player.
Bedard has an interesting skating posture that, while effective, gives him the appearance of leading with his face.
Keep your head up buddy. Lots of years ahead of ya.
Bedard provided most of the force. He’s used to dipsydoodling about at will. Players take a lot of ribbing and razzing when they get pulled out of their jockstrap. It’s a great source of incentive.
I think it’s partly inexperience. He’s used to playing where is magnitudes faster than everyone else. The gap between him and an average while great, is still much smaller than the gap between him and everyone else at the junior level. He probably expected to zip around everyone, but that isn’t going to happen nearly as often for him anymore.
I love the ridiculous comments about the “kid needs to keep his head up” “doesn’t know how to take a hit”. He has played at a higher level, at higher speed against larger players trying to take his head off since he was 13. He’s been hit and gives hits. Now he’s 18 playing against 30+ year olds 6 inches larger and 60 pounds heavier. He will get hit. Everyone gets hit. He’ll adapt like every other nhl’er that sticks around has had to.
Bedard didn’t skate into Smith, he went around the other devils player at speed, smith saw his opportunity and stepped up. That’s what Brendan smith does. Not a dirty hit, it was a hard hit. For all the experts that say the hit wasn’t hard, put your hands at your sides and run at full speed into a wall.
Looked like a pretty soft hit from the quick glance I seen. Must have just got him the right way
Leveled? That was hardly being leveled. It even look like Smith held back some!
If that’s how Bedard is going to react to every standard hit like that, he better learn some more ice awareness or he isn’t going to make it very far!
Rewatching the video again, Smith barely moved! Bedard basically ran into him! lol
I cannot believe they gave Smith a penalty for that hit and/or defending himself from Foligno. Such actions will not help the sport or players play the game.
Keeping pounding each other, like go ot too….nothing to do with my nucks waiting to play them tomorrow
Welcome to the big leagues, kid
Clean hit. Slafkovsky for Montreal was terrible at receiving contact his first year and seems much more aware this year.
I wonder if Bedards speed/agility probably allowed him to play a little recklessly because he could adjust last second. That window is much narrower now.
Hopefully it’s just precautionary and he’s ready to suit up next game.
He probably bit his tung bad and might have required stitches.
Welcome to the big league kid…
Those kids pounding on the glass were having a good time 🤣
Saw a Blackhawks fan on Twitter say that Smith should « leave the ice in a body bag after that hit. » I swear a portion of the Blackhawks fanbase just doesn’t know the game at all and just tunes in when they have superstars, buys their jerseys, and yells obnoxiously at stuff they don’t understand. Emphasis on a portion of the fanbase. Lot of the fanbase is as real as it gets.
Looked like a broken jaw, hit was clean. Kind of a freak play really, Bedard lost the puck in his feet looked down and ran into Smith. He will be back
Damn that one is on bedard
Clean hit, hope the kid’s good
Welcome to the league, kiddo
WELCOME TO THE BIG CITY!!!
Head up on the tracks buddy
Anything to get out of the all stars game.
It’s an 18 year old kid playing against men. Looks like bedard skated into a brick wall.
It was a clean hit