La deuxième saison de Connor Bedard a été difficile alors qu’il dirige une équipe des Blackhawks qui se situe actuellement au bas du classement de la LNH. À cette situation indésirable s’ajoute le licenciement de Luke Richardson en tant qu’entraîneur-chef. Tout cela soulève la question suivante : les Blackhawks font-ils défaut à Bédard ? Domino’s That’s Hockey discute des problèmes à Chicago et réfléchit à la façon dont Bédard gérera sa non-sélection pour Équipe Canada.
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These #1 draft picks are going to teams that are struggling, have struggled, and will continue to struggle until pieces get placed around them, struggling builds character, makes that Champagne taste better through adversety
Jamie McLennan is the biggest believer in Mikheyev there is, I applaud it. Lol. I honestly think it's an overreaction here. Is Bedard struggling this year? Yes. Do they need youth? Not really. They have it. They just aren't NHL ready. You don't force youth onto a team for no reason, unless you want to be Buffalo or Ottawa. What they need is good leadership pieces and to build an identity so when those young pieces are ready they have a good situation to enter into. Their youthful pieces will be there as early as next season. So no need to overreact to this season. This is his 2nd year, dude is 19 for crying out loud. Let the process play out.
Yes they are. What a waste of generational talent. Shame on them!!!
Come home to the Canucks.
No worries there…. Sabres have wasted boatloads of talent and when they leave they win cups. He'll be fine
He’s Playing for the Canucks
Of course they are failing Connor Bedard. If he was smart, he’ll refuse to renew his contract and shop himself around.
TSN is failing.
Canucks should trade Peterson for Bedard!
When you get drafted first overall you go to a bad team, often the worst..
Its been a year and a half, guys.
Get real.
Oilers need to trade Draisaitl for Bedard and put him on the second line
Yes very badly kd got rid of all their old dudes who know Chicago know how to play and most importantly know how to win for a bunch of old dudes who haven’t got a clue how to win on top of that 98 dangles the brakes off of every team and when he doesn’t score 15 goals a night they say oh he’s not producing like he’s supposed to. Friggen 19 year old kid with no team and gm who releases Jonathan mf toews and puts Nick foligno as captain. Why?! Just so frustrating.
TOMMY HAWK DOESNT EVEN BANG A DRUM ANYMORE FOR PETES SAKE.
They will be fine the kid will be good leave him alone Richardson was not a coach
He needs a player who is on his same wave link, the Sedin Project
So just because Bedard as a #1 pick is put on a terrible team, that's failing him? How many #1 picks are put on a kick ass team right away? I can think of 1 example, Patrick Kane after being drafted #1 to the Chicago Blackhawks in 2007, was basically dropped into an ascending juggernaut that had a young Duncan Keith, Brent Seabrook, Jonathan Toews, Patrick Sharp, Dave Bolland, Troy Brouwer, and Dustin Byfuglien. Then they added a prime Marian Hossa. That is an exception.
How many cups did the Edmonton Oilers win with that "group of young players"? ZERO.
In contrast San Jose has been doing it the right way with Celebrini. Case in point Celebrini is roommates this season with Smith who was the 4th overall pick in 2023 and have another talented young players on the roster with Eklund too. A year from now the likes of Musty, Bystedt, possibly Dickinson, and a couple of others also could spend some of next season up with San Jose. Not to mention Sharks have Askarov too as their potential franchise goalie for the next 10+ years who has started a couple of games this season.
Celebrini -18 y/o
Smith – 19 y/o
Eklund – 22 y/o
Musty – 19 y/o
Dickinson – 18 y/o
Mukhamadullin – 22 y/o
Bystedt – 20 y/o
Graf – 22 y/o
Askarov – 22 y/o
Sharks have all the makings to have one of the best young cores in the very near future and that doesn't include if they land a top 3 or 4 pick in the 2025 draft and end up with another young talent like Hagens, Martone, Misa, or Schaefer too.
The Hawks could have drafted Demidov to play with Bedard and instead drafted a defenseman for the "team". YIKES. Demidov can stickhandle and pass and he's uber talented offensively and creative. Hawks = mismanaged. They weren't even thinking about Bedard with the selection of a defenseman. Demidov could have been his winger for his whole career. Wowzer. How good would Patrick Kane look right now in Chicago? Kane to Bedard for the PPG, oh wait my bad the Blackhawks organization sucks.
Chicago is a failed organization
Hope they get a coach that wont give anything free to Bedsy. And also some real leader is needed.
This was the same talk as mcdavid years back lol
He’s in his 2nd year in the league lol. We live in such a microwave world. Everything is right now. It’s going to take 4-5 years to build around him. It always does.
Took the Avs a long time to get to where their at
San jose is in a better place now celebriai e is better because of the youth around him
Let me answer the question – YES.
The real question is TSN failing themselves…..answer is yes.
No the reverse.
When they didn't make him the Captain, that itself was a slap in the face by the organization. The hawks have at least 3 AHL'ers that can play right now in the NHL, bring them over now. Olympics isn't the big dance, check the ratings, people don't give a shit about that. It's all about the damn playoffs
I know Bedard is young (but the nhl is a young league) and I wish him a long and successful career, but I just don't see it, help or not. He's ends up on his kness in the slightest amount of traffic. He has that wippy-flexy "hockey stick" trick shot thing that goalies are figuring out – but lacks serious power and drive compared to all the young greats he was touted to be like (thru no fault of his own. He cam be dangerous if he plays with other superstars to leave him room, but if he's the focus, not so much. He IS a lot like Kane in that regard.
Did the Avs ruin Mackinnon for being historically bad when he was on the team? These moron talking heads need soemthing to talk about.
Yes, the hawks are failing bedard lol
Kyle Davidson is too scared to let the young players grow on the team and is just letting lots of washed up players fill up high level roster spots
After ONE year of Bedard and the Hawks maybe expect to be a Cup contender? It’s gonna take 3-4 more years of tanking and building a young supporting cast of talent…
I've been a Hawks fan for over 50 years and am sick of hearing about Bedatd. He's all offense. Centers are the first to help on D if there's a turnover in the O zone and the wingers are forechecking. Bedard should be in the AHL, honing his skills and gaining confidence.
He will get going . He’s too talented but the league better not expand more teams because it’s too watered down. And bettman is bad for the game he’s just a greedy little leprechaun who just wants to expand and it’s not good because there’s no rivalry’s any more, and it’s ruining young talent, and Canada made a big mistake not taking Bedard, sophomore years can also can be the toughest, He will do alright.
I think the jury is definitely still out on Bedard!! He was packaged and given that generational talent sticker . He has always been spoon feed his success and your seeing how that hurt his progress . I find he has very low compete and wants to play on the offensive side only . I see him being not a bust but a good NHL player still . Def not a generational level .
Bedard is the problem. His own problem. He needs to grow up. Fast. I'm sick of seeing his hissy fits on the ice and bench. He seems to love shooting at the goalies instead of around them. He passes too much instead of shooting. I'm sick of hearing about him.
Dach was a nothing player and all hype right from the beginning and I couldn't wait for the Hawks to get rid of him. Give Bedard one more season and if there's no progress then get rid of him also. They can probably get 2 or 3 really good players for him.
Getting sick of bedard already
Major failure to beddard . Get him out if shitcago . Bunch of chomos
He'll need to adapt to pro hockey. It's not the Juniors anymore
The guy that wrote about kane being drafted to a juggernaut team wow so basically the greatest american born player ever benefited on that or the team benefited getting kane Justbask saad an the breadman who benefited on that draft considering kane basically helped both them get massive contracts with how well he fed them