{"id":220256,"date":"2025-10-17T17:16:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/220256\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T17:16:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:16:09","slug":"chicago-blackhawks-blashill-effusive-in-praise-for-connor-bedard-amid-hot-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/220256\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Blackhawks\u2019 Blashill effusive in praise for Connor Bedard amid hot start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/chicago-blackhawks\/16\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/chicago-blackhawks\/16\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Blackhawks<\/a> star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/connor-bedard\/8484144\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/connor-bedard\/8484144\" target=\"_blank\">Connor Bedard<\/a> is drawing high praise from head coach Jeff Blashill amid a strong start to his season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 20-year-old centre has four goals and six points in five games for the 2-2-1 Blackhawks as he plays out the third and final season of his entry-level contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI can\u2019t say enough good things about him as a person, his competitiveness, his want to be a great player,\u201d Blashill told reporters Friday. \u201cHe wants to win more than anything else. He wants to win more than score points, he wants to win more than getting accolades. He just wants to win. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cHe\u2019s 100 per cent bought in. He accepts coaching, whether privately or in front of the team because he knows that\u2019s part of the importance of building that good culture. We\u2019ve got guys that want to win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Bedard and the Blackhawks will host his hometown team, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/vancouver-canucks\/23\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/vancouver-canucks\/23\" target=\"_blank\">Vancouver Canucks<\/a>, on Friday night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The North Vancouver, BC. native posted 23 goals and 67 points in 82 games last season. It was a slight drop off from his rookie season output, when he had 22 goals and 61 points in 68 games. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Set for restricted free agency next summer, Bedard was selected first overall in 2023. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago Blackhawks star Connor Bedard is drawing high praise from head coach Jeff Blashill amid a strong start&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[712,49,48,76045,81618,448,82],"class_list":["post-220256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chicago-blackhawks-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-16","tag-connor-bedard-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8484144","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}