Tag: Connor Bedard

Connor Bedard roasted NHL on TNT announcer Paul Bissonnette’s hockey career with brutal one-liner

“There’s a couple of pretty good players on this panel… and Biz.”

Connor Bedard certainly knows a good hockey player when he sees one. After all, Bedard is a generational hockey talent and is very likely to be taken No. 1 overall by the Chicago Blackhawks in the upcoming NHL draft.

On Monday, ahead of Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final, Bedard joined the “NHL on TNT” crew to talk shop and preview the events between the Vegas Golden Knights and Florida Panthers. The panel was quite the star-studded one too, with greats like Wayne Gretzky and Henrik Lundqvist the major highlights of TNT’s analyst broadcast crew.

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When asked how it felt to be seated next to the Great One, Bedard was as humble as they come. Of course, Bedard couldn’t help but roast TNT analyst — and former NHL player — Paul Bissonnette with a brutal drive by one-liner.

For reference: Bissonnette played 202 NHL games and scored 22 points in his career. That’s not nothing, at least!

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3 mind-blowing ways a Penguins-Blackhawks game in April forever altered NHL history

What a ridiculous domino effect we’ll look back on for years.

At the time, when the Chicago Blackhawks beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 5-2 in an early April affair, we thought it was a disastrous result and only for the two teams involved. But no one could have possibly predicted the domino effect of a win for one of the NHL’s worst teams over Sidney Crosby’s playoff fringe Penguins.

Sometimes, when you least expect it, a seemingly normal late-season game can mean so much to the rest of the league.

Now, with the 2023 Stanley Cup Final matchup finally almost set in stone, let’s look back at three mind-blowing ways one Penguins-Blackhawks regular season battle forever changed NHL history.

One thing seems certain: We might even look back on this game and see more butterfly-effect outcomes down the line.

NHL fans were furious after the Blackhawks won the NHL Draft Lottery (and Connor Bedard)

This feels all kinds of wrong

The Chicago Blackhawks are still reeling from a sexual assault cover-up that forever tainted their Stanley Cup dynasty and cost the jobs of general manager Stan Bowman and head coach Joel Quenneville.

The Hawks spent all of last season openly tanking, trading away stars like Patrick Kane, Alex DeBrincat and pretty much every player any opposing team even looked at.

It was all rewarded on Monday night as Chicago won the NHL Draft lottery and the right to select generational talent Connor Bedard No. 1 overall.

It all felt gross.

For NHL fans, it was also infuriating. The Blackhawks were hockey’s golden child throughout the 2010s and have barely paid for the crimes committed while atop the league.

The internet did not take kindly to Monday’s development.