Connor Bedard was presupposed to be the lipstick on the pig of the Blackhawks franchise, however it hasn’t fairly labored out that method.
In his second season, the 19-year-old once-and-perhaps future phenom has been battered from pillar to put up for, properly, for being a young person unable to fairly deal with the burden of carrying a dysfunctional operation.
If Bedard doesn’t battle exhausting sufficient, if Bedard doesn’t cease in entrance of the online within the defensive zone, that’s reflective of poor teaching. As soon as, perhaps twice, that might be on the participant. Commonplace, that might fall on the teaching employees and the hierarchy.
We’ve been instructed that earlier than Luke Richardson — a projected rising star as a coach earlier than he received to Chicago — was fired on Dec. 5, with a document of 8-16-2 this yr and 57-118-15 over two-plus years behind the bench, he was instructed by higher administration to deal with No. 98 with child gloves.
