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GDT: Hawks @ Oilers, 05 Feb 2025, 8:30PM CST

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No shame in losing this one, I mean we want as few pts as possible anyways let’s just be honest here. And the kids played great, especially Bedard and Nazar. Nazar was extremely impressive on that backcheck vs McDavid in OT. Anyone feeling down about what they saw tonight should adjust their mentality.
 
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SimpleJack said:
No shame in losing this one, I mean we want as few pts as possible anyways let’s just be honest here. And the kids played great, especially Bedard and Nazar. Nazar was extremely impressive on that backcheck vs McDavid in OT. Anyone feeling down about what they saw tonight should adjust their mentality.
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Nazar also missed the pass in OT that likely would have won the game
 
I'm still irritated about the intermission.

Yes, Bedard's play away from the puck is somewhat lackadaisical. It sorta happened again in OT when he took his sweet time getting off the ice, causing the penalty.

But McDavid, the reigning Conn Smythe winner and probably a top 5 player all time when his career ends, looked worse tonight and they say nothing. McJesus had no shots in the first 40, only getting 2 shots total in the game, he only had an assist on that OT goal, minus 2, had a worse faceoff percentage than Bedard.

If you can criticize the 19yo kid for lackluster play, you can criticize the likely best player in the league for it. Especially when Biz is saying how all the current great centers in the league, which he included McDavid in, learned to play 'the right way'. McDavid didn't tonight.
 
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I'm still irritated about the intermission.

Yes, Bedard's play away from the puck is somewhat lackadaisical. It sorta happened again in OT when he took his sweet time getting off the ice, causing the penalty.

But McDavid, the reigning Conn Smythe winner and probably a top 5 player all time when his career ends, looked worse tonight and they say nothing. McJesus had no shots in the first 40, only getting 2 shots total in the game, he only had an assist on that OT goal, minus 2, had a worse faceoff percentage than Bedard.

If you can criticize the 19yo kid for lackluster play, you can criticize the likely best player in the league for it. Especially when Biz is saying how all the current great centers in the league, which he included McDavid in, learned to play 'the right way'. McDavid didn't tonight.
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McDavid still doesn’t, he never has. It’s hilarious to see who actually watches the games and who just goes with a narrative.
 
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Poor Seth
..-3..just cannot avoid the bad stuff happening when he is on no matter how goidvor bad he personally plays.

Ifvhe coukd mitigate byvbeibgbin forbmorecoffebse he might beca meh clisectobeven player..but nah....Cause he does not mitigatechus negative numbers enough.
 
Mcdavid has never “played the right way”

What is Biz talking about

I missed the intermission with the Canadian feed here. But it’s laughable to make it sound like Drai and Mcdavid are these complete players in their own end. It took each the better part of a decade to introduce themselves to their own blue lines. Those guys got caved in their own end for years. The biggest change was putting Ekholm and Bouchard out there with them. Suddenly they are good defensively. No they don’t play much in their own end which is a good thing. Credit to them for that but let’s not act like these guys are gonna win a Selke one day

The Hockey Media is full of halfwits
 
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Soda stole a point. Nice battle back by the boys. Weak change to give up the pp in OT. The future looks bright for this crew, it is just going to take more time
 


The Blackhawks’ line of Ryan Donato, Bedard and Landon Slaggert was a big reason for the Blackhawks’ analytical success. Despite often going up against Connor McDavid’s line, Bedard’s line had a 14-7 edge in shot attempts, 6-3 in shots on goal, 8-3 in scoring chances and 1-0 in goals while on the ice.
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EDM continues to show he's better than Allan

Which is funny because at the time, many had him ranked ahead of Allan anyway

And yet he went 4th round and Allan went 1st
 
Biz is an absolute imbecile and a total meathead. Lucked into the success he is having now. There's zero hockey people who value his opinion on...pretty much anything. He's the court jester.
 
Missed the game last night but Dickinson might’ve blown his knee out? Just great.

This narrative on Bedard lately is just odd. It’s like so many people are ignoring the fact he’s 19 still and has only played 121 career NHL games. I also don’t know why now everyone is pretending to expect Selke level defense from a guy that was never expected to be any good at defense.

But for the love of Christ get him another quality NHLer or three to play with next year. With Dickinson out potentially the rest of the season and Donato traded soon…. I mean, it’s only going to get worse for Bedard with that much less depth.

And a new coach too while you’re at it.
 
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