Prospect Info: Connor Bedard - 2023 1st - C, Regina

[DisgruntledHawkFan]

Friends are really easy to make when you're winning cups.

 

[Kevin Musto]

Bedard's family influence helps make him likely No. 1 pick in 2023 Draft | NHL.com

Leadership, maturity, impressive shot also reasons 17-year-old center is 'once in a lifetime' prospect

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"Connor took the coaches board and started drawing up plays off the face-off," said Regina right wing Borya Valis, Bedard's linemate at the time. "We're all like, 'Oh, he knows what he's doing.' After the game, Connor told us he had been thinking about that play for a week and wanted to try it.

"It was an awesome moment. I was like, 'Yeah, I guess Connor can be a player and coach.'"

Bedard would have abused this man

 

[thedarkstark]

This video is pretty dope



Buddy the GOAT

 

[Mrfenn92]

This video is pretty dope



Buddy the GOAT

Extension needed for buddy

 

[Mrfenn92]

 

[Hattrick Kane]

This video is pretty dope



Buddy the GOAT

It didn’t even touch on Montreal going from a potential lottery pick to picking 31, which might be the most hilarious out of all of that chaos.

 

[clydesdale line]

Last Bedard interview before he puts that beautiful Indian head sweater on.

 

[Mrfenn92]

Happy Connor Bedard day

 

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[piteus]

I think Bedard is the second most popular athlete in Chicago already.

1. Justin Fields
2. Connor Bedard
3. Chicagoans want to blow up the Bulls.
4. The Cubs are just getting started.
5. The White Sox are more unlikable than the Bulls.
6. Candace Parker left for Las Vegas.
7. The Chicago Fire have not been relevant for 10+ years.

 

[Kurtosis]

I think Bedard is the second most popular athlete in Chicago already.

1. Justin Fields
2. Connor Bedard
3. Chicagoans want to blow up the Bulls.
4. The Cubs are just getting started.
5. The White Sox are more unlikable than the Bulls.

This is probably accurate. For me you could switch 3 and 4, but not everyone is a Cubs fan.

 

[Toews2Bickell]

I think Bedard is the second most popular athlete in Chicago already.

1. Justin Fields
2. Connor Bedard
3. Chicagoans want to blow up the Bulls.
4. The Cubs are just getting started.
5. The White Sox are more unlikable than the Bulls.
6. Candace Parker left for Las Vegas.
7. The Chicago Fire have not been relevant for 10+ years.

Ohtani might shake up that top 3 some day

 

[No Fun Shogun]

Is Fields popular though? On average, I mean. He seems to have a lot of fans and haters that make me think he averages down a lot.

As for popular contenders... is anyone really super popular here other than maybe Dosunmu, and that's more of a scrappy hometown kid kind of right, right?

 

[TLEH]

 

[No Fun Shogun]

Wait, tickets are already on sale?

 

[TLEH]

They went on sale today at 2 PM for Boston atleast. I was in the lobby at 1:50. Felt like people were going to want to see Bedard and Boston is already a hot ticket anyway. I am 20 rows behind the Blackhawks bench. I paid 200 ea. Tickets are already 300+ just to get in now.

 

[DisgruntledHawkFan]

Is Fields popular though? On average, I mean. He seems to have a lot of fans and haters that make me think he averages down a lot.

As for popular contenders... is anyone really super popular here other than maybe Dosunmu, and that's more of a scrappy hometown kid kind of right, right?

I think you're overrating how popular he is because he went to UofI.

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

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Shouldn't you block out order #?

 

[TLEH]

Shouldn't you block out order #?

Thanks.

 

[No Fun Shogun]

I think you're overrating how popular he is because he went to UofI.

Chicago kid, too, though.

 

[DisgruntledHawkFan]

Chicago kid, too, though.

Lotta Chicago kid's. He's a bench player on a bad team.

 

[TLEH]

Fields is number 1.

Guess it depends on what you call popular. I wouldn't say Bedard is 2, at all.

 

[Toews2Bickell]

Fields is number 1.

might not be if they're garbage this year

 

[TLEH]

Anyway, back to Bedard, I feel like his size won't prevent him from playing center at all.

 

[No Fun Shogun]

Lotta Chicago kid's. He's a bench player on a bad team.

Sure, but not many on the Bulls, and the picking on other teams is tangibly thin right now. I'm not claiming he's a superstar, but nobody dislikes him and the alternative options either have loads of haters as well or have a low ceiling popularity due to also being on bad teams.