Connor Bedard didn’t want to talk about his record-breaking performance.
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“He’s a professional already,” Canadian goaltender Thomas Milic said in the wake of the country’s 20th world junior crown. “He’s so good at everything he does — the way he prepares, the way he looks at the game, studies it.The rest of the package is pretty good, too. For all the gaudy numbers Bedard put up in Atlantic Canada, however, he declined to discuss those accomplishments in the wake of the gold medal.
“A lot of people look at what he does on the ice and don’t realize just how humble and cerebral a kid he is,” Williams said. “I couldn’t imagine being in his shoes with the amount of attention and pressure he gets night in, night out. He’s mature beyond his age.In his first game back with the Western Hockey League’s Regina Pats on Sunday, Bedard had four goals and two assists in a 6-2 victory.
The 19-year-old centre, who was subsequently traded by Kingston to the Windsor Spitfires in one of a handful of blockbuster deals across the Canadian Hockey League ahead of Tuesday’s deadline, had a goal and an assist in eight NHL games. Set to turn 26 on Friday, the No. 1 pick in 2015 is on pace to register 150 points — the most since Mario Lemieux’s 161 in just 70 outings in 1995-96.
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