Conor Bedard’s numbers are baffling.
The super talent, who is projected to finish first in the NHL draft, scored 143 points in 57 regular season games for the WHL.
– He does sick things, says fellow Swede Alexander Suzdalev.
Back home in Canada, 17-year-old Conor Bedard wrote about his life from an early age and was cast as the next Sidney Crosby or Connor McDavid.
He achieved his international breakthrough during last winter’s JVM competition when he scored 23 points (9+14) in seven games and led Team Canada to the gold medal.
– said fellow goalkeeper Tomas Milic at the time, only imagination sets limits to how great he can be.
How has it gone since then? Joffar…
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Bédard continued to rack up points in the WHL’s Canadian Junior League.
Tonight finished the regular season and Bédard’s points total finally came to an end at 143 points (71+72) in 57 games.
Hockeysverige writes that this yields an average of 2.51 points per game, the best ever for a U18 player.
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He scored 21 more goals than the league’s second-leading scorer Kai Uschacz, and of course he also won the scoring league in superior style, with 36 more goals than Chase Wheatcroft.
One person who has witnessed Connor Beddard’s success at close range is Swede Alexander Suzdalev, 19, who is a teammate of Bedard’s team at Regina Pats and was responsible for setting a record himself – 86 points (38 + 48) in 66 games, which surpassed Oscar Mueller. Previous scoring record by a Swede in the WHL.
Almost at every training session you stop and think about how good it really is. He does weird, sick things all the time. It’s very nice to see it, says Suzdalev in Viaplay.
The NHL Draft is at the end of June and experts are firmly convinced that Conor Bedard will go first.
– The noise is a lot, but I think he handles it pretty well. Alexander Suzdalev says he doesn’t think much of it.