It made perfect sense for the Blackhawks to sign Teuvo Teravainen and Tyler Bertuzzi during the offseason. For reference, the Blackhawks didn’t have a single line last year that played over 50 minutes and had an expected goal rate above 54 percent. That’s the point where Bedard started to struggle and the team tried seemingly every combination — the Blackhawks …
The Athletic has live coverage of NHL Draft 2023 Next Wednesday in Nashville, Ross Mahoney will make his biggest decision in 16 years. 1 pick Connor Bedard and high-end Russian prospect Matvei Michkov to the Caps’ growing staff of amateur scouts, Hershey’s Calder Cup win and more. It was just that one year where we were like, ‘Man, there are …
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Tim Bernhardt, the Arizona Coyotes director of amateur scouting at the time, was sitting in a suite inside the KeyBank Arena in Buffalo. He was surrounded by Arizona’s other scouts and executives early in the morning, ready to begin a long day of interviews with draft prospects at the NHL scouting combine. I would never endorse any …