Where do you rank Connor Bedard as a player right now?

[viper0220]

Bedard will be fine, the Blackhawks have to suck and get a top pick. They can build around Bedard, as he gets older, he will mature and fill out physically.

 

[Rec T]

Easily in the top 600 in the league.

/what the hell kind of question is this? Ask again in a few years once he's actually played more than a couple hundred games & there's actually information to evaluate him on.

 

[Goose]

Confession- never seen him play. Watched two Blackhawks games this season (and I picked these games specifically for him), but he didn't played in any of those... Number-wise, he seems like a good player on a shitty team, but not in the same tier as rookie Crosby/rookie McDavid (even though the latter also missed significant time in rookie year), and he was advertised as such...

Sir, you are doing hfbboards wrong.

The less you watch, the stronger and more vocal your opinion should be.

 

[Fatass]

85 overall. So Top 200.

Defensively, he doesn't bring much.

This^^^
Bedard should be playing wing.

 

[maroon 6]

1st line scorer. He is nowhere near Crosby as a rookie.

Crosby still had guys like Recchi, Gonchar and Leclair.

Bedard has Jason freaking Dickinson.

 

[Fatass]

Crosby still had guys like Recchi, Gonchar and Leclair.

Bedard has Jason freaking Dickinson.

Ranking Bedard as of right now though, without projection for improvement, and he’s in the 50 to 70 range. He’s able to put up points at a decent enough rate but lacks (not surprisingly considering experience) defensive play.

 

[maroon 6]

Rating Bedard by his ppg is not really accurate. I have no doubt that he’d be over point per game on any other team. Yes even the Sharks.

The second highest ppg on the Hawks is Kurashev who would have 45 points adjusted to 82 games.

Meanwhile Crosby and McDavid had some decent teammates in their rookie seasons.

Ovie is the other guy who played on a really bad team, but Ovie was 20 years old his whole rookie season. Bedard will turn 19 after the season is over.

 

[sbhnur]

I rank him a very good rookie player!

 

[Chet Manley]

I rank him somewhere between child and adult.

 

[thaman8765678]

Below Connor Zary.

 

[Junohockeyfan]

Overrated. Always has been, always will be. He will be a star player in the league but not a generational player.

 

[TGWL]

The skill is there. The decision making is not there yet. Jack Hughes is a perfect example of a player who needed to learn how to protect himself on the rink. Where to go. How not to get hit. How not to get cornered when you have the puck. He doesn't put himself in those bad situations like he did during his rookie season. He now opens space for his teammates to utilize them instead of just playing a game of "watch me with the puck."

Bedard will need to learn that. You obviously see the talent; the hands, the play making IQ, the compete, and the ridiculous shot. There are times when he attempts to do way too much himself.

It's hard to rank him right now other than saying he's already playing like a 1st line player.

 

[SenzZen]

I wouldn't write him off just yet.

 

[Video Nasty]

It is hard to take anything you say seriously when you spell season as szn, it is just so lazy.

If you could find the strength within yourself to overlook it, what would you say to them?

 

[9911]

He’s a top 100 forward at this point. He’ll be top 50 by the end of next season. And top 10 within 4 years. The caveat being that he gets some help. With a good setup guy he’ll be a 60 goal scorer. His shot is accurate and his release is lethal. He’s a Bossy/Robitaille/Kucherov hybrid.

 

[Mrfenn92]

He’s 18 fellas

 

[No Fun Shogun]

I don’t know exactly how high he should be ranked, but he was looking damn good on a team otherwise devoid of NHL talent for the most part.

Dude is going to be downright scary as he matures and if/when Chicago actually puts talent around him.

 

[Miri]

GOAT

 

[MrHeiskanen]

Top 150 of forwards.

 

[wetcoast]

He’s 70th in points/game, but not getting a lot of help.

Not taking potential into account, he’s currently an average 1st line player.

This is a fair assessment.

That being said there is no other average first liner that any team would want going forward and it's not even close.put.nother way Bedard is in the top 10 of forwards for the next 5 years.

 

[Tkachuk Norris]

People looking at his points per game are crazy. Chicago has scored like 15 goals in the 12 games he’s been out. Offensively he’s a top 20 player. But he’s still got a lot of things to work out in his two-way game. I’d say he’s somewhere around 50.

 

[abo9]

This year? Id have him top 50 player (including defense and goalies), taking into consideration that he plays center and have little support.

Obviously I dont consider the injury here

 

[Dust]

He's top 50 easily. Chicago is really really bad, but they were 2.31 goals per game with Bedard, and since his injury they are 1.33 goals per game which is historical pace bad.

 

[SUX2BU]

Right now, 3674

 

[rielledup]

Crosby still had guys like Recchi, Gonchar and Leclair.

Bedard has Jason freaking Dickinson.

Crosby had more offensive support but not by a huge amount, scoring was also significantly lower during Crosbys rookie season compared to today. I think its fair to say Crosby was on a different level in his rookie season.