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

[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:

 

[FastEddie]

If I'm not mistaken there were probably three years after MacKinnon's rookie season where people thought he'd just be a PPG guy at best because he lacked hockey IQ. Bad years for Colorado. There was a Mackinnonassaince in year 5 when he scored 97 up from 53 the previous year. Mac has size and especially speed over Bedard, though.

Still, why can't Bedard be a Kane type player? Maybe a winger role and a Toews at center would better suit him.

 

[Star Platinum]

What is Celebrini doing statistically this year that Bedard didn't do last year?

Similar PPG
Slightly better looking plus/minus
Better GPG
Worse APG
Better linemates
Equally inept team

You'd have to watch him play to understand. It's not the kind of thing that's going to show on boxscore stats.

 

[WarriorofTime]

As of the time of this post, Bedard has the 2nd best Powerplay Points per 60 in the NHL for the 2024-25 season with any sort of reasonable filter (over 16 minutes of total powerplay time on the season is the min that gets you there).

Hawks powerplay sits 8th in the league in terms of percentage after tonight, between Edmonton and Florida (the two most recent SCF). Bedard has points on 23/31 Blackhawk powerplay goals on the season (71.875 %).

If Hawks weren't bottom 5 in terms of powerplay opportunities, I reckon Bedard's point totals would be better than they are.

 

[895]

This is embarrassing for Chicago.

He made some good points, he didn’t attack him personally. Just because you were a bad player doesn’t mean you are wrong about everything. Scotty bowman wasn’t a great player either.