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Connor Bedard is the new super talent to take over the NHL.
As expected, the 17-year-old was chosen number one in the NHL draft.
But now it is revealed that his very first NHL jersey had a Swedish name on the back.
Only 17 years old, the child prodigy was chosen Connor Bedard as number one of all in the big NHL draft. Swedish hockey is extremely proud to Leo Carlson was chosen as number two, but it is after all the young Canadian that the whole hockey world is talking about.
Bedard’s success
He is predicted to be the new one Connor McDavid and expectations are extremely high for Bedard who is expected to dominate in the NHL within a few years. He has already won two straight JVM golds with Canada and a clear testament to his incredible talent is the unparalleled scoring production last season.
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Connor Bedard, who has previously played junior hockey in HV71, collected a somewhat improbable 163 points in 64 games in the junior league WHL. It was the Chicago Blackhawks who won the draft lottery and thus got the chance to pick first.
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A Swedish idol
Of course, they chose future franchise player Bedard with their first pick and have now secured hockey’s most exciting player. But in connection with the NHL draft, something so incredibly unexpected was also revealed and showed that the super talent has another Swedish connection in his past, see the picture below.
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For Connor’s very first NHL jersey as a child was a Vancouver Canucks match jersey with a Swedish icon’s name on the back. One of Swedish hockey’s top NHL players actually as Bedard himself reveals that he went around with Henrik Sedin on the back as a little boy, see the picture below.
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Incredibly cool, actually, that a newly selected draft pick grew up with Sedin as a big idol. We can only hope that he could tell the twin brothers Henrik and Daniel Sedin.
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