Tuesday marks the beginning of a four-game road trip for Chicago (26-31-13), which should provide Frondell some time to become acclimated with his new teammates. As for his on-ice play, coach Jeff Blashill said he doesn\u2019t want Frondell to feel pressured to produce right away.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust be him \u2026 play,\u201d Blashill said. \u201cHe’s done a good job over the course of his time growing up to put himself in position of success, so just go play.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cBiggest thing is I told him (is) you’re going to make mistakes, and I don’t care about mistakes. We care about learning.\u201d<\/p>\n
Of course, joining a team late in an NHL season is much different than having a full offseason to prepare, an opportunity Bedard was provided after being the No. 1 pick in the 2023 NHL Draft. Bedard, 20, is in his third season with the Blackhawks and leads them with 66 points (29 goals, 37 assists) in 57 games.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s optimistic Frondell will be the player Chicago envisions in time.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was just fighting for his life in the playoffs with a different squad,\u201d Bedard said. \u201cA day later, he’s flying, however long, eight, nine hours, speaking a different language and everything. So, it’s different.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don’t want to put expectations on anyone; you just want him to go out there and enjoy the moment, play his game, and he’s a great player. He’s going to do great.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday marks the beginning of a four-game road trip for Chicago (26-31-13), which should provide Frondell some time…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-558754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558754","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=558754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}