Connor Bedard NHL Combine Results

Connor Bedard, the most hyped NHL prospect since that Connor, was finishing up his third season in junior hockey when I visited him in March. His team, the Regina Pats, is located in the broad plains of Saskatchewan, where the average winter temperature hovers around 12 degrees Fahrenheit. Against this unforgiving backdrop, the 17-year-old Vancouver native spends most of his time at the rink -- which is where he and his teammates also take high school classes -- or at home with his mother, Melanie, who temporarily relocated and rented an apartment to ensure her son retained some sort of normalcy.

For fun, Bedard and his buddies frequent the hockey shooting range, an indoor facility where they shoot pucks for a few hours. Sometimes they'll visit the mall, where Bedard said they recently swung by the jewelry store for chains "just because. But I promise you it wasn't anything too crazy."

Connor Bedard finished the regular season with 71 goals and 72 assists in 57 games, winning the Bob Clarke Trophy as the WHL's leading scoring. His 143 points also lead the CHL in scoring for the year, and he was the first WHL player to have a 140-point season since 1995–96.The league subsequently awarded Bedard the Four Broncos Memorial Trophy as WHL player of the year. He was the first draft-eligible player to be named league MVP since Sam Reinhart nine years prior. Bedard was later given the CHL's CHL Trop Draft Prospect and CHL Player of the Year awards, becoming the first person to win those and the CHL Top Scorer Award for a single season, and named to the revived CHL First All-Star Team.

The Regina Pats reached the 2022–23 WHL playoffs, beginning a first round series against the Saskatoon Blades. Bedard had two goals and an assist in a 6–1 Regina victory in the series opener, the first playoff points of his career.[34] Regina won the first two games of the series, but lost the next three straight. Bedard had a goal and three assists in Game 6, a 5–3 Regina victory forcing Game 7. However, the Pats were ultimately eliminated by the Blades. Bedard had 10 goals and 10 assists in the seven-game series, which was widely assumed to be the end of his WHL and junior career.

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The 2023 NHL Scouting Combine took place over the weekend in Buffalo, New York. Of course, the biggest story is Connor Bedard who is going to be the number one pick of the 2023 NHL Draft. The Chicago Blackhawks are going to be the team that makes the pick.The Chicago Blackhawks are set to select Connor Bedard with the first pick.Bedard did tons of interviews with teams and media while also participating in different physical tests. It is clear that he is a strong kid who is also a great person. Now, it is time for him to show what he can do at the NHL level.

For being the most-hyped prospect since Connor McDavid, Connor Bedard has handled all of this very well. It can’t be easy but he is thriving.

Learning about his personality a little bit is important. He is an elite player but it also sounds like he understands what it means to be in the position that he is in.

It will be a lot of fun to watch him over the years. Based on everything that we have seen and heard so far during this process, Bedard feels like a player that you can win a Stanley Cup with if you build around him properly.

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Following this crazy weekend, Bedard is now ready for the 2023 NHL Draft in Nashville. The Blackhawks will step up in one of their biggest rival’s barn and take their future franchise forward.