I’m going to delete all reservations first, because that’s what every hockey fan outside of Chicago wants.
It was just a promising game, the NHL’s version of a shortened summer league just before training camp. Basically, it was made up of players at a Level that Connor Bedard has already dominated, whether at the Junior World Championships or at the Junior World Championships the previous December and January. This is nothing new.
And yes, the Blackhawks are still going to suck, so the hockey world doesn’t have to worry about our clumsy cleanups and daredevils yet. But it comes because of what unearthed Bedard’s hat-trick against Flotsam that the Blues faced on Saturday night. Of course, there are probably few NHL players on either roster for this one. But players like Bedard are supposed to make them buddies on the way to the face of the League.
This loop, this resistance and this poison on the next shot will also affect many NHL goalkeepers. What is most striking and really the most striking in all its objectives is the ridiculous ease with which Bedard manages it. It’s the same effort and attention that you and I devote to taking our vitamins in the morning, and he hits his wrist to make a cheese with a puck.
There has been a lot of discussion about “tunnels” in Pitch Analysis.”How many “tunnels” did Bedard have from below the fucking points to the farthest corner here? Even if there was no goalkeeper on the road, it would be difficult to hit this place on the ice itself. Bedard is just sneezing about it. That would be the definition of pissing.
The third door seems almost pedestrian after the first two. Yes, at this point the game is being played in the “let’s leave it behind” way, but the exit.
It is in a barely measurable unit of time of his stick. The shooting is just a rumor about the capture that St.Louis had in the net.
Whatever the caveats, Bedard’s goal-scoring instincts are off the charts in Ovechkin Country for someone entering the League. Although the teams will certainly try to push it or block it from certain places on the ice, if every point on the ice has its place, it is only a limited protection plan. That sub-point shot is a place where teams want Him to shoot out of the power play until he picks the corners from there anyway. What if you had to stretch to stop him wherever he is? By the way, just open some ice cream in the middle.
