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The Chicago Blackhawks<\/strong> just got crushed by the Vancouver Canucks<\/strong> with 6-2 in their recent match. It was a harsh defeat, for sure, but it wasn\u2019t just the score or the final results that disappointed fans. A cruel incident awaited their peak anger only when the 19-year-old star, Connor Bedard<\/strong>, got penalised for two misconducts in his back-to-back matches! Bedard entered the game against the San Jose Sharks<\/strong> on March 14 with no misconducts in his career, but what went down last night was nothing short of poor treatment of the young player that left fans in fury!<\/p>\n It was a 10-minute misconduct penalty in the third period when the referees made questionable calls on Bedard\u2014when his teammate Jason Dickinson<\/strong> slammed Canucks\u2019 Filip Chytil<\/strong> from behind, to knock him out of the game. B\/R Open Ice shared the exact clip on X. Chytil exited the game and hadn\u2019t returned to the ice till the end. The move on Chytil left the Canucks disgruntled and boom, the anger erupted! The Canucks had Bedard cornered to the back of the Canucks\u2019 net in a scrum and BOOM! Bedard, though clueless, had his anger boil over in response.<\/p>\n The caption? \u201cWhy you mad?\u201d \u2013 Bedard \ud83d\ude2d, <\/em>implied a sarcastic yet frustrated tone that highlighted Bedard\u2019s disappointment with the situation! And it left no time for fans to vent their frustration too, over the lack of support for the young player who was poorly judged by the officials. These decisions only fueled the fire among the community while they couldn\u2019t believe what they were witnessing.<\/p>\n However, this wasn\u2019t the first time Bedard had been in a similar situation. It happened just two days earlier, in a match against the San Jose Sharks, when Bedard was penalized for abusing the officials! Well, in case you think that\u2019s totally out of character, you need to think again. Because the call came after an uncalled trip by Sharks defenseman Mario Ferraro<\/strong>, which left Bedard frustrated. Even though fans questioned whether the penalty was fair, many wondered what exactly had triggered the incident.<\/p>\n The argument regarding the penalty call, or something that Bedard said to the officials wasn\u2019t entirely clear. But what Bedard said afterwards in an interview, was \u201cI don\u2019t think it was too crazy, but you know\u2026 he\u2019s the ref so he gets to make that call so you gotta live with it,\u201d<\/em> he said, recalling the same.<\/p>\n But coming back to what happened just hours ago, under a completely different circumstance, it isn\u2019t just about the penalties, but also about Bedard\u2019s response. In both instances, Bedard let his emotions get the best of him. Hockey does that to you and he\u2019s 19 years of age. No blemish in his career barring two ten-minute penalties in back to back games. While NHL Insider, Frank Seravalli thinks that Bedard should\u2019ve acted smarter, fans aren\u2019t exactly of the same opinion.<\/p>\n One fan bluntly addressed the Blackhawks when they wrote, \u201cWhere\u2019s the rest of Chicago defending their dude?\u201d<\/em> After all, they want their star player to be backed by the strong team when the going gets tough. Yet, what they saw was Bedard left abandoned behind the Canucks tent with Frank Nazar! The drama didn\u2019t end there. When fans stopped analysing how the referees penalised him, they gave up and wrote, \u201cThen he gets a 10-minute misconduct for absolutely NOTHING for the 2nd straight game\u201d<\/em> in utter disbelief.<\/p>\n But it wasn\u2019t just the penalty itself; it was the sheer inconsistency too. Another fan expressed a similar concern\u2014\u201cDude what\u2019s up with another 10 minute? Can we get some clarification? That\u2019s insane time for something so small.\u201d <\/em>while demanding better explanations for the accusations against Bedard. But the anger didn\u2019t stop at questioning the misconducts only. Some got furious about the unfair targeting of Bedard by the referees.<\/p>\n \u201cBedard is being targeted by the refs! For him to get back-to-back misconducts in consecutive games is laughable and a horrible call.\u201d <\/em>Another fan threw off their anger on the referee itself when they added, \u201cSo Bedard gets a 10 min for that? Refs are f\u2014\u2014 tarded this year.\u201d<\/em> With back-to-back misconducts pointed out against Bedard, does it imply a pattern of mistreatment that has fans questioning the fairness of officiating.<\/p>\n However, with the dust settling, one thing is very certain. Fans are not backing down even if the Blackhawks do!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fan frustration boiled over the penalty awarded to Bedard in the game against the Canucks for alleged misdemeanor on ice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chicago-blackhawks"],"yoast_head":"\nFans demand support for Connor Bedard<\/h2>\n