{"id":299706,"date":"2025-11-22T13:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T13:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/299706\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T13:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T13:37:08","slug":"blackhawks-connor-bedard-makes-nhl-history-only-matched-by-sidney-crosby-connor-mcdavid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/299706\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackhawks&#8217; Connor Bedard makes NHL history only matched by Sidney Crosby, Connor McDavid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nhl\/chicago-blackhawks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Blackhawks<\/a> may want to forget about their Friday night shellacking at the hands of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nhl\/buffalo-sabres\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Buffalo Sabres<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But during the bad loss, Connor Bedard did join an exclusive NHL group.<\/p>\n<p>Bedard reached 100 career assists with a helper on the road, and that was a milestone not just for the round number but for how quickly Bedard did it.<\/p>\n<p>He becomes the third-youngest player in NHL history to reach the mark, at 20 years and 127 days.<\/p>\n<p>The only two younger to do it? Two legends: Sidney Crosby and Connor McDavid.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Blackhawks?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">#Blackhawks<\/a> Connor Bedard (20 years, 127 days)<\/p>\n<p>3rd youngest active player to collect 100 career assists. Only Sidney Crosby &amp; Connor McDavid were younger when they reached the mark<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sportsnet Stats (@SNstats) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SNstats\/status\/1992034196315844680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 22, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The No. 1 overall pick from 2023 actually dished out two assists Friday and is up to 101 in his career.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He also has 58 goals, giving him 159 points through 171 career games.<\/p>\n<p>Bedard won&#8217;t turn 21 until next July. He has continued to improve, and the Blackhawks are trying to build a team around him to compete.<\/p>\n<p>They know they&#8217;ve got their centerpiece in place, that&#8217;s for sure.<\/p>\n<p>More news:<\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago Blackhawks may want to forget about their Friday night shellacking at the hands of the Buffalo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-299706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299706","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=299706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}