Chicago Blackhawks No. 1 total decide Connor Bedard entered the NHL with huge expectations. His arrival has been anticipated for 2 years with the hope he could be a franchise-changing expertise for no matter workforce 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 finest highlights but when he scored this unbelievable lacrosse-style objective within the first interval of their 7-5 loss to the St. Louis Blues.
That was Bedard’s thirteenth objective of the season and simply his finest one up to now. It is usually among the finest objectives within the NHL this season. That lacrosse-style transfer has develop into extra common lately, however it’s nonetheless an extremely troublesome play to tug off throughout a reside sport state of affairs.
Bedard made it look simple.
He now has 30 factors (13 objectives, 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 workforce round him continues to be very a lot within the early levels of a rebuilding part. It’s merely not roster.
That was very a lot on show on Saturday, because the Blackhawks allowed St. Louis to attain 5 consecutive objectives within the third interval to show what had been a 5-2 Blackhawks lead right into a 7-5 Blues win.