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

[WarriorofTime]

He's doing a much better job at getting to scoring areas and creating chances, while playing a much better two way game. His bigger, faster, stronger, and plays a more competitive style.

He projects as a legit play driving center who can match up all over the ice. Bedard looks more like an elite offensive winger who will be stuck on the perimeter.

Needs to get benched and stop playing pond hockey on left
2-way god, championship worthy, play driving Toews clone on the right

 

[Turin]

It’s not true that he doesn’t have a mean bone in his body. He can play pretty belligerent when he wants, it’s the environment. Chicago has a newb GM and now two inexperienced coaches and his on ice support has been.. geriatric Taylor Hall and Nick Foligno. Compare that to Crosby who had Lemieux, Recchi, Gonchar, Roberts and a hardass coach like Therrien - and while Shero was a rookie GM he was AGM in both Ottawa and Nashville for a long time before taking the Pittsburgh job. Bedard will never be Crosby but the people saying he’s destined to be a soft one dimensional winger already are off.

 

[Chelios]

Needs to get benched and stop playing pond hockey on left
2-way god, championship worthy, play driving Toews clone on the right

If you listen closely you can actually hear Whiskey furiously tapping away trying to find obscure statistics to refute this.

 

[RedHawkDown]

He just plays a game that is seen as "soft". He's like Kane. Whereas Celebrini plays "the right way" so he's seen as responsible, when the actual on-ice results are identical in both cases. Once Chicago starts winning the narrative will flip to "game breaking offensive talent".

 

[Video Nasty]

At no point has McDavid looked like the 300th best player in the NHL this season, no need to be so hyperbolic.

Hopefully meant that McDavid playing average to his own highest standards still makes him a top 5 player in the game.

 

[Washed Up 29YearOld]

Was watching a Hawks game on espn+ to check out Bedard a couple weeks ago.
And my god it was embarrassing how much the Hawks broadcast was fawning over Bedard like he's a god or something or the second coming of Gretzky.

The hype was unreal, I can see how Hawks fans believe Bedard is more than he is, I don't blame them.

Bedard looked invisible half the game and the other half he was generating scoring chances that ultimately led to nothing.

give him good teammates, change bad habits, he's a 85-100 pt player in his prime.
(with higher scoring era not as impressive as some years)

But he's not the second coming of Crosby as Hawks media profess and insist.

 

[Chelios]

But he's not the second coming of Crosby as Hawks media profess and insist.

Show me where Chicago media has said this.

 

[WarriorofTime]

Was watching a Hawks game on espn+ to check out Bedard a couple weeks ago.
And my god it was embarrassing how much the Hawks broadcast was fawning over Bedard like he's a god or something or the second coming of Gretzky.

Do you have a clip in particular that you are referring to so the audience can judge for themselves the merit of the statement?

 

[Macheteops]

Crosby fans were talking down to young McDavid to discredit him back in the day too. And it was annoying and cringe back then just like it is now with McDavid fans doing the same thing to Bedard.

Crosby fans had a legit reason to be worried. Even though immature as it might be. McDavid won the Art Ross his second season and continued to dominate

I don't think many McDavid fans are that worried about Bedard

I personally thought he'd have a bigger impact and honestly hoped he would. I just don't see him as a McDavid/Crosby type player but I think with some future help he'll have some big seasons. He looked dangerous vs the Oil the other night

 

[Il Stugotz]

I mean they should be a little afraid of letting him tee off like this: