It didn’t change how Edmonton thought.Ĭasey Mittelstadt was more embarrassed than anything when he couldn’t do a single pull-up in 2017. McDavid made the top 10 in only one category - fifth place in left-side agility - of the 10 measured.

Jack Eichel outperformed McDavid across the board in 2015.

The outcome won’t change who the Chicago Blackhawks will take with the first overall pick June 28 in Nashville. It’s not like Bedard has to participate in the combine. And a really good kid.”īedard will be the centre of attention this weekend at the NHL combine in Buffalo, where the league’s top prospects are gathered to be poked and prodded by training staff and medical staff while meeting with front offices trying to add to the profiles that their amateur scouts have been provided. For a young kid, he had the best shot on the ice. “Every summer you come back to the skate and he’s even better.

“You could tell from an early age that he was going to be good,” Kerfoot said. He’s been compared to Wayne Gretzky and Connor McDavid in terms of his skill and Auston Matthews in terms of his shot. For me, it was hard not to ask for an autograph.”īy now, Bedard’s name equates to generational talent. “You’re a young kid and I think I just went out like once that summer, but you see all these NHLers. He’s an incredible talent.”īedard remembers joining the group of NHLers that included Alex Kerfoot, Ryan Nugent Hopkins and Danton Heinen. “It was kind of funny, like, who’s this little kid? And then two years later, he’s shooting the puck harder than all of us. “He was 12 and he was out there with the NHL guys,” the New York Islanders star said during the regular season. It was Connor Bedard’s first time on ice with NHL players. BUFFALO, N.Y.-Mathew Barzal remembers watching this little kid, maybe 12 years old, skate with him and some other NHLers on practice ice in Vancouver.

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