{"id":5126,"date":"2024-12-01T23:47:49","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T23:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=5126"},"modified":"2024-12-01T23:47:49","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T23:47:49","slug":"hot-news-connor-bedards-dazzling-play-against-blue-jackets-shows-growing-confidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=5126","title":{"rendered":"HOT NEWS: Connor Bedard&#8217;s dazzling play against Blue Jackets shows growing confidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cst.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/b27f207\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/3660x2440+0+0\/resize\/840x560!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchorus-production-cst-web.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2F99%2F07%2F1e4262624813b0d8861d74dbcb24%2Fbedard-2.jpg\" alt=\"Connor Bedard\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Connor Bedard\u2019s most impressive play Sunday actually wasn\u2019t his power-play goal that put the Blackhawks on the board early in the first period.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, it was a play that didn\u2019t make it onto the box score: Deking through three Blue Jackets tightly packed together \u2014 Kent Johnson, Zach Werenski and Jake Christiansen \u2014 to get a hard shot off on a power play in the second period.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Individually, Connor Bedard looks more and more like himself: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xQomnuNi4V\">pic.twitter.com\/xQomnuNi4V<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ben Pope (@BenPopeCST) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BenPopeCST\/status\/1863333341207912771?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 1, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Bedard\u2019s hand-eye coordination and puck control was impeccable, and his vision and creativity was elite. Best of all, though, he looked confident in all of those skills again \u2014 just like he did most of last season and unlike most of November.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s obviously got the hands and the vision,\u201d defenseman Alex Vlasic said. \u201cHe\u2019s starting to do really well these last couple games.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old forward \u2014 and there can never be enough reminders that he\u2019s still the second-youngest player in the NHL \u2014 seems to have conclusively put his drought behind him.<\/p>\n<p>He is now riding a three-game point streak, and he has nine shots on goal and 13 shot attempts in just the last two games. He wasn\u2019t perfect in the Hawks\u2019 6-3 loss Sunday \u2014 he shouldn\u2019t have forced a pass to Philipp Kurashev on a two-on-one rush later in the second, for example \u2014 but he looked dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>Bedard even made a crucial block in the first period that might have prevented a Columbus goal. He has quietly been much more involved in that defensive category this season: He\u2019s up to 17 blocked shots now, compared to 27 all of last season.<\/p>\n<h4><b>Soderblom\u2019s chance<\/b><\/h4>\n<p>Backup goalie Arvid Soderblom will likely start for the Hawks on Monday in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an opportunity for Soderblom to continue his strange domination of the Maple Leafs, whom he beat twice last year with 35- and 34-save performances. It\u2019s also an opportunity for him to earn a larger share of the Hawks\u2019 workload moving forward, since Petr Mrazek \u2014 who has received 18 starts to Soderblom\u2019s mere six this season \u2014 has struggled the last two games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bedard has put his drought behind him, and he extended his point streak to three consecutive games Sunday \u2014 even though he didn&#8217;t record a point on his most impressive moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chicago-blackhawks"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>HOT NEWS: Connor Bedard&#039;s dazzling play against Blue Jackets shows growing confidence - 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