Chicago Blackhawks No. 1 general decide Connor Bedard entered the NHL with huge expectations. His arrival has been anticipated for 2 years with the hope he can be a franchise-changing expertise for no matter group drafted him.
Not even midway via his rookie season he’s already proving that he’s worthy of that hype. On Saturday Bedard created one among his greatest highlights but when he scored this unimaginable lacrosse-style purpose within the first interval of their 7-5 loss to the St. Louis Blues.
That was Bedard’s thirteenth purpose of the season and simply his greatest one to this point. It is usually among the finest targets within the NHL this season. That lacrosse-style transfer has develop into extra standard in recent times, however it’s nonetheless an extremely tough play to drag off throughout a dwell sport state of affairs.
Bedard made it look straightforward.
He now has 30 factors (13 targets, 17 assists) in his first 33 video games. The issue for the Blackhawks is that for as nice as Bedard has instantly been, the remainder of the group round him continues to be very a lot within the early levels of a rebuilding part. It’s merely not a very good roster.
That was very a lot on show on Saturday, because the Blackhawks allowed St. Louis to attain 5 consecutive targets within the third interval to show what had been a 5-2 Blackhawks lead right into a 7-5 Blues win.
