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"Nobody is afraid of Bedard"....Bruce Boudreau

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sawchuk1971

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He's more than 100% correct. I still remember being terrified every time MacKinnon touched the puck his rookie season, felt like he could make something happen at any time. Don't have that at all with Bedard.
 
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Bedard is a twig, light as a feather. Doesn't scare anyone and would probably get shut down bad if the Blackhawks ever make the playoffs. That dude just doesn't play winning hockey yet, no matter the point totals.
 
The problem with many of the modern rebuilds is these kids are on islands without good role models and they develop bad habits/don't learn good ones.

I think it's a bit unfair to compare style of play to Crosby and Ovie though. They are built differently and came into the league playing a gritty brand of game.

I thought Bedard would be more Kariya lite myself but Paul was light-years ahead in his d plus 2 year in terms of his all around game.
 
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Needs to get more powerful/explosive. Needs a proven coach and needs more support.
 
You need more than an elite shot to thrive at this level, but Bedard also doesn't have the supporting cast yet to make up for the other weaknesses in his game. This is why the upcoming Draft is so important, the Hawks have a few very tantalizing options to potentially pair with him in the years to come and they can't afford to screw it up.
 
Who are the Eklund, Smith, Toffoli on the Hawks?

CB is playing with scrubs.

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I was so confident that bedard would be the best upcoming talent after mvdavid of recent draft picks. Now I'm convinced celibrini will be the best young player followed by mckenna
 
Of course Bruce would think that coaches aren’t “worried about Bedard” coming into a game

This is the same guy who refused to line match in the WCF 2015 and watched Toews and Hossa eat Getzlaf lunch money on home ice late in that series because his refusing to acknowledge the other teams best players should be game planned around
 
Mackinnon and Hughes were far from special early on. Bedard is on pace for 75 points on a tire fire of a team. He’s physically immature and doesn’t have help. It’s impressive when most people can pick apart holes in his game and acknowledge this team is brutal and that he’s also almost a PPG player.

Give the kid 2-3 years here. He can’t even drink in the city he resides in.
 
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AKL said:
still remember being terrified every time MacKinnon touched the puck
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I'm sure the season the Avs finished with 48 points, all the teams were laying awake in sheer terror every night before they played them wondering what tricks a 53 point MacKinnon had up his sleeve, and that this post isn't at all captain hindsight
 
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Chicago needs to get a center and let Bedard play the Wing. He's just physically overmatched at the Center position and if he's trying to play a two-way game, on a non-competitive team, he's going to be exerting too much energy on the defensive side to allow his 5v5 offense to show up.
 
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eojsmada said:
Chicago needs to get a center and let Bedard play the Wing. He's just physically overmatched at the Center position and if he's trying to play a two-way game, on a non-competitive team, he's going to be exerting too much energy on the defensive side to allow his 5v5 offense to show up.
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He needs help of any kind, not this garbage on a plate Davidson has thrown up the past two years
 
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