You’re a smart guy - I think you know that Puljuharvi had a real strong line that tournament and wasn’t really the play driver on that line. That was Aho.
if Bedard can carry over the momentum he's built up in this tournament over to the WHL, I wouldn,t be shocked at all if he puts up 90+ points over his remaining games
Someone just needs to kidnap the GM of Regina until they trade him to play with Stankoven for the rest of the season.
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Of course he does, my point is that in such a small sample size this kind of stuff can get blown out of proportion. Puljujarivi scored a bunch more points than his linemates and he was the worst player on that line. For all of Bedard's points, he's racked up a good number of "touched the puck assists". He should no doubt be leading this tournament in scoring, but I think guys like Stankoven should be a lot closer to Bedard, he's been much better than his numbers suggest.
High hockey IQ, being in the right place at the right time. He makes such plays even when he's not getting points off them, consistently.
I think that's doable, but might be a bit optimistic. At the start of the season I believe projected ~70g ~140p this year if he played 60 games. He's currently on pace for 137.
Bedard can still be benefitting from luck lol. I'm not arguing he's not the best player on his team. I am saying that the gap he's created is a inflated because of this sample size. If they played 50 more games he wouldn't have 130% more points than the team's 2nd leading scorer.
Agreed on all accounts. Crosby played a more mature game and controlled the play to a greater extent. Even though the Q is a weaker league, the CHL was the strongest it has ever been due to the lockout and Crosby dominated it to a nearly unprecedented extent. He led the CHL in scoring by 38 points and out-scored the next closest non-teammate in the Q by 60 lol.
It’s not just an “elite” WJC.
He has a terrific chance, especially when you factor in his success with Team Canada.
He's been terrific. But it's 5 games. 62% of his points have come against Austria and Germany lol.
I guess the small consolation to that if they don't trade him is hopefully he will get to go play for Canada again in the spring. Fully agree though it is a shame the lack of team built around him in Regina.
It really is a shame. They have like 4 good players and then a huge fall off.
Hypothetically if Regina and Kamloops have been in talks of a trade involving Bedard to Kamloops and If I was Paddock and have been watching just how insane that duo has been at WJC, I'd be telling Kamloops they need to add on atleast another 1st + to the return cause you know Kamloops management/ownership has been salivating at this duo during WJC......
And every single year, especially by the greats, points are put up against bad teams. You don’t just get to remove those because you say so.
How many players get to play TWO teams like Austria and Germany? One of those games should have been a Russia/US caliber team. All of the sudden he goes from 21p to 15p. Still incredible but its very obvious how weak his competition has been to date.
I can honestly only think of like 1 or 2 assists that you could classify as a a lucky "touched the puck" assists. I think that is what has been so jaw-dropping to people who haven't seen him play much, is how much offense he is directly creating. In my opinion he's probably a bit unlucky to not have more points relative to the quantity/quality of what he has created.
That's a bit disingenuous. He was positively unlucky against the Czechs, if his teammates (Othmann largely) could finish the plays he served up on a platter he could be at 25 points by now.
Yeah this is what I don’t get; Crosby I wasn’t old enough to remember but put McDavid up what half of his points against Denmark and Germany? Like you can only beat who is front of you, and so far against big teams bedard is averaging above 3 points a game, I don’t know what else you can ask for
