GDT: Kings @ Hawks, 20 Mar 2025, 7:30 PM CT

[Dr Salt]

Wish the season would just end

 

[MarotteMarauder]

Bedard also tried to skate through 3 guys as he entered the zone with about 3 min left. Young player have to get coached up to break bad habits

I watched him intently last night. Obviously he has skills but IMO he really doesn't know how to play hockey. On his own side of the red line he's a total puck watcher. No awareness of where danger is coming from, nada, zip, bupkiss.

Seemingly he has ridden his offensive skills to the NHL w/o any of his minor coaches really teaching him the game. A great disservice to the young man IMO.

 

[Toews2Bickell]

Dude is cooked. Wish he wasn’t signed for next year. Just because we know he won’t be a healthy scratch as a captain

Probably stick him on the fourth line next year with Dickinson and Anderson or Slaggert. Probably one more year at the bottom for this group. Half this roster won’t be playing for us in 26/27

there should not have been a captain after toews until one of the kids emerged

 

[BLKHKhockey]

Did Bedard play wing this game?

 

[Game suspension]

I watched him intently last night. Obviously he has skills but IMO he really doesn't know how to play hockey. On his own side of the red line he's a total puck watcher. No awareness of where danger is coming from, nada, zip, bupkiss.

Basically none of his previous coaches had the balls to tell him he is a winger.

 

[Kevin Musto]

there should not have been a captain after toews until one of the kids emerged

3 years without a captain?

Get real

 

[Giovi]

 

[Toews2Bickell]

3 years without a captain?

Get real

yes, roll with A's until Bedard is ready...

 

[Backyard Hockey]

I watched him intently last night. Obviously he has skills but IMO he really doesn't know how to play hockey. On his own side of the red line he's a total puck watcher. No awareness of where danger is coming from, nada, zip, bupkiss.

Seemingly he has ridden his offensive skills to the NHL w/o any of his minor coaches really teaching him the game. A great disservice to the young man IMO.

I know his blasphemy to say and we get the obligatory ‘he’s 19’ but he does crap that drives you nuts watching your kid’s games. Trying to stick handle through three people and let’s be honest - he’s an absolute disaster in the D zone.

 

[Backyard Hockey]

3 years without a captain?

Get real

Is the whole captain thing really that big of a deal? Can’t think of anyother team in the NHL that has a captain that is as worthless on the ice as Foligno. But but ‘the room’. I haven’t seen any real evidence of him helping the young guys take the next step. Especially 98

 

[statswatcher]

I know his blasphemy to say

usually the people who complain in this manner are actually espousing very commonly held and expressed beliefs but pretend that there's an angry mob of optimist zealots waiting 24 hours a day on this site just to come to your house and literally crucify you for saying connor bedard is bad defensively. playing pretend in such a way allows them to feel like victimized truth-tellers, telling it how it is, rather than passive consumers of a mass media product.

 

[CallMeShaft]

Is the whole captain thing really that big of a deal? Can’t think of anyother team in the NHL that has a captain that is as worthless on the ice as Foligno. But but ‘the room’. I haven’t seen any real evidence of him helping the young guys take the next step. Especially 98

Logan Couture and Gabriel Landeskog.