There are always Next Ones coming who salivate the imagination — the way there was Eric Lindros, Sidney Crosby, Connor McDavid and Jack Hughes, and the way there is Connor Bedard.
Bedard put on a show for victorious Team Canada in the World Juniors and capped it with an on-ice interview following his team’s 3-2 overtime victory over Team Czechia in Halifax that made this 17-year-old poster boy for the sport’s evolving speed and skill also a virtual poster boy for our game’s credo that the logo on the front of the sweater is more important than the name on its back.
When, that is, the organizations will actively tank the way the Penguins did for Mario Lemieux in 1983-84 by calling up a minor league goalie Vincent Tremblay to play against the Devils at the Meadowlands in an early March showdown for last overall . When is the last time that the gap between the league’s best and second-best player was as wide as it the one now separating McDavid from the rest of the league?
Tkachuk has come as advertised — that is, as a Tkachuk — but once again Puddy Tats are mired in the nether regions of the East, threatening to become the fifth team in the past 75 years to miss the playoffs a year after finishing with the league’s best record while playing uninterested, disconnected hockey.
And Johnny Gaudreau, whose free-agent defection to Columbus kind of jump-started this three-ring circus that prompted the Florida-Calgary deal, well, the winger needs the Jackets to win the lottery in order to escape witness protection.So Rick Bowness, the Winnipeg head coach, was behind an NHL bench for an unprecedented 2,600th game on Friday when the Lightning came to town,
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