50 goal seasons for Bedard?

[EastVillageBlues]

How many 50 goal season do you anticipate Bedard will have?

Also, what are the chances he can score 50 in 50 at least once in his career?

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[wetcoast]

I took 6-7 his shot and cloaking his intent is so elite that he could very well knock off 10 in a row if all falls into place.

 

[McVespa99]

Pretty premature to try and guess. We dont know how his game and stature will translate to the Nhl.

 

[ViD]

0 until I see his first NHL season

 

[TheDawnOfANewTage]

Pretty premature to try and guess. We dont know how his game and stature will translate to the Nhl.

Too much is made of his stature. Legit measured at 5’9.75, 185 pounds. If he has problems they won’t be build-related.

 

[Regal]

I think he’ll be a perennial 50 goal threat and one of the top picks for the Richard through his prime. But it’s crazy how rarely players reach their best year to year. Injuries, lockouts, pandemics, down seasons. Stamkos and Matthews are probably the two most natural goal scorers to enter the league since Ovechkin, and probably had the potential to put up 5-8 50 goal seasons if everything went right. But Stamkos only managed 2 and is unlikely to get any more and Matthews so far just has the one, though still could run off a few more with some luck. Draisaitl has managed 3 even as a late bloomer but he could have had 5 straight under better circumstances. Even Pastrnak just had his first. I’m going to say 3 or 4

 

[Video Nasty]

I think he’ll score 50 in his rookie season. As long as the NHL stays at similar scoring levels as the past handful of years, sees little to no time lost to lockouts, and he is healthy, he’ll flirt with Bossy, Gretzky, and Ovechkin’s 9.

 

[Tkachuk Norris]

Not a chance in my books this year and I love the kid

10ish career wise would be my guess

 

[barabas21]

I voted 2. I don’t think his high volume shooting approach will translate to the NHL because he won’t be able to get himself in the high scoring areas enough. However, his talent is enough where he will get 2 at his absolute peak. I think at the next level he will become more of a playmaker from his vision alone.

 

[Forgetful]

He's going to have 130+, 50 goal seasons. In his spare time he will solve world hunger,end the climate crisis, and his awesomeness and hockey prowess will result in an infinite loop of immaculate conception, that will have every women on the planet giving birth to nothing but Bedards, that will lead humanity on a conquest of the stars, all in the name of the glorious God Emperor Bedard the first.

 

[AhosDatsyukian]

The greatest player in the world has 1 and it came in his 8th season... The greatest goal scorer outside of Ovechkin has 1 and it came in his 7th season...

Bedard projects as a really good goal scorer but until we see him play I have no confidence in saying he'll put up a bunch of 50 goal seasons, easier said than done. Voted 3 as I think that is reasonable career prediction especially with scoring going up too, but 0 or 1 wouldn't shock me at all either.

 

[sennysensen]

I said 10-14. He has a Matthews calibre shot.

 

[Midnight Judges]

I think he’ll score 50 in his rookie season. As long as the NHL stays at similar scoring levels as the past handful of years, sees little to no time lost to lockouts, and he is healthy, he’ll flirt with Bossy, Gretzky, and Ovechkin’s 9.

....said people in this very forum about Lafreniere.

 

[waitin425]

I think he’ll score 50 in his rookie season. As long as the NHL stays at similar scoring levels as the past handful of years, sees little to no time lost to lockouts, and he is healthy, he’ll flirt with Bossy, Gretzky, and Ovechkin’s 9.

He isn't scoring 50 in his rookie season with that lineup in Chicago.

 

[ricky0034]

He's going to have 130+, 50 goal seasons. In his spare time he will solve world hunger,end the climate crisis, and his awesomeness and hockey prowess will result in an infinite loop of immaculate conception, that will have every women on the planet giving birth to nothing but Bedards, that will lead humanity on a conquest of the stars, all in the name of the glorious God Emperor Bedard the first.

he's not even gonna cure cancer? what a bust

 

[norrisnick]

I said 10-14. He has a Matthews calibre shot.

Matthews is more likely to finish with 1-4 50+ goal seasons than he is to finish with 10-14 of them.

 

[WarriorofTime]

If the league trend of offense continues, then there is no real limit. 5 players potted over 50 this most recent season, 4 the prior season. Bedard should have no issues being a top 5 goal scorer pretty early on and throughout the duration of his prime if he is able to live up to his potential. And the current trend (across sports) is for athletes to have longer careers as they condition better in the offseason and injuries that used to be career enders become more like minor stumbling blocks. Let's say he gets his first one at age 20 (Year 3, doesn't seem unrealistic at all) and then his last one age 36 (which Ovechkin did last season). That's a 16 year window, even when you factor in some missed time, a down season here or there, over 10 seems very plausible.

 

[norrisnick]

If the league trend of offense continues, then there is no real limit. 5 players potted over 50 this most recent season, 4 the prior season. Bedard should have no issues being a top 5 goal scorer pretty early on and throughout the duration of his prime if he is able to live up to his potential. And the current trend (across sports) is for athletes to have longer careers as they condition better in the offseason and injuries that used to be career enders become more like minor stumbling blocks. Let's say he gets his first one at age 20 (Year 3, doesn't seem unrealistic at all) and then his last one age 36 (which Ovechkin did last season). That's a 16 year window, even when you factor in some missed time, a down season here or there, over 10 seems very plausible.

It's plausible to predict that a current 17yo will set the record for most ever 50 goal seasons?

Only 3 players in the history of the NHL have more than 6 of them. Bossy, Gretzky, and Ovechkin (all with 9).

 

[WarriorofTime]

It's plausible to predict that a current 17yo will set the record for most ever 50 goal seasons?

Only 3 players in the history of the NHL have more than 6 of them. Bossy, Gretzky, and Ovechkin (all with 9).

Only if you completely missed the giant caveat about league-wide offense. When 0-1 players score 50 a year, yeah that's gonna make it hard. If a bunch of guys are gonna do it every year, then you could probably expect Bedard to be in that group.

League history also misses the fact that even hitting 1,000 games used to be hard. These days, 41 active players are passed that mark, many of whom are nowhere close to done, and obviously a whole bunch more are right on the cusp and will pass that next year, Players, especially top players, can go a lot longer these days and maintain a high level of play (see Crosby and Ovechkin still doing their things into their late 30s). Bedard is considered a prospect "on that level" so to speak, so if he is able to avoid bad injury luck and comes close to hitting his potential he will likely be productive into his late 30s.

LeBron, Brady, Djokovic, Messi, Ovechkin... this is basically the trend across all major sports. All have been "doing what nobody did in history" as far as longevity stuff goes.

 

[blundluntman]

6-7 seems reasonable if you account for injuries and whatnot. Everything would have to go absolutely perfect for him to pot 8-9 when you consider only Gretzky, Bossy and Ovi have done it. He has the potential to be a perrenial 50 goal scorer for sure but things don't always play out that way from season to season.

 

[CascadiaPuck]

15+ 50 goal seasons. 1000+ goals by the time he retires. Single season goal record of 95.

I’m as excited as anyone else to see what he can do, but the speculation is getting bananas.

 

[tfwnogf]

an even 20 seasons, with some 93 goal season sprinkled throughout

 

[norrisnick]

Only if you completely missed the giant caveat about league-wide offense. When 0-1 players score 50 a year, yeah that's gonna make it hard. If a bunch of guys are gonna do it every year, then you could probably expect Bedard to be in that group.

League history also misses the fact that even hitting 1,000 games used to be hard. These days, 41 active players are passed that mark, many of whom are nowhere close to done, and obviously a whole bunch more are right on the cusp and will pass that next year, Players, especially top players, can go a lot longer these days and maintain a high level of play (see Crosby and Ovechkin still doing their things into their late 30s). Bedard is considered a prospect "on that level" so to speak, so if he is able to avoid bad injury luck and comes close to hitting his potential he will likely be productive into his late 30s.

50-70 game seasons will do that.

 

[Rabid Ranger]

I mean, 10 votes for 15+ seasons of 50 goals. LOL. In his prime and as the Hawks get better and have better talent to surround him I can see him hitting 50. Probably a Brayden Point like trajectory.

 

[WarriorofTime]

50-70 game seasons will do that.

It's been over 74 since Expansion and over 80 since 1974-75.

But since you are the one that brought up league history, the 82 game season making it easier to surpass 50 goals compared to early days only supports my point.