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Today we’re talking about the 1st overall projected pick at the 2023 NHL Entry Draft Connor Bedard, and how he’s not coming to the Vancouver Canucks.
The 2023 NHL Entry Draft is filled with a lot of top NHL prospects. Some are elite, and others could be even seen as franchise NHL prospects. Names to look out for include Connor Bedard, Matvei Michkov, Adam Fantilli, Brayden Yager, Leo Carlsson, Calum Ritchie, Zach Benson, Cameron Allen, Dalibor Dvorsky, Charlie Stramel, Nate Danielson, Ethan Gauthier, Eduarde Sale, Otto Stenberg, Colby Barlow, Kasper Halttunen, Will Smith, Ryan Leonard, Quentin Musty, Oliver Moore, Riley Heidt, Andrew Cristall, Zeb Forsfjall, Theo Lindstein, Mikhail Gulyayev, Hunter Brzustewicz, Maxim Strbak, Gavin Brindley, William Whitelaw, Gabe Perreault, Lukas Dragicevic, Alex Ciernik, Caden Price, and Koehn Ziemmer.
This video is taking place after the 2022 NHL Entry Draft, and after the 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs.
The 2022 NHL Draft 1st Round went as follows:
1st) Montreal Canadiens, Juraj Slafkovsky
2nd) New Jersey Devils, Simon Nemec
3rd) Arizona Coyotes, Logan Cooley
4th) Seattle Kraken, Shane Wright
5th) Philadelphia Flyers, Cutter Gauthier
6th) Columbus Blue Jackets (from Chicago Blackhawks), David Jiricek
7th) Chicago Blackhawks (from Ottawa Senators), Kevin Korchinski
8th) Detroit Red Wings, Marco Kasper
9th) Buffalo Sabres, Matthew Savoie
10th) Anaheim Ducks, Pavel Mintyukov
11th) Arizona Coyotes (from San Jose Sharks), Conor Geekie
12th) Columbus Blue Jackets, Denton Mateychuk
13th) Chicago Blackhawks (from New York Islanders), Frank Nazar
14th) Winnipeg Jets, Rutger McGroarty
15th) Vancouver Canucks, Jonathan Lekkerimaki
16th) Buffalo Sabres (Vegas Golden Knights), Noah Ostlund
17th) Nashville Predators, Joakim Kemell
18th) Dallas Stars, Lian Bichsel
19th) Minnesota Wild (from LA Kings), Liam Ohgren
20th) Washington Capitals, Ivan Miroshnichenko
21st) Pittsburgh Penguins, Owen Pickering
22nd) Anaheim Ducks (from Boston Bruins), Nathan Gaucher
23rd) St. Louis Blues, Jimmy Snuggerud
24th) Minnesota Wild, Danila Yurov
25th) Chicago Blackhawks (from Toronto Maple Leafs), Sam Rinzel
26th) Montreal Canadiens (from Calgary Flames), Filip Mesar
27th) San Jose Sharks (from Carolina Hurricanes via Arizona Coyotes and Montreal Canadiens), Filip Bystedt
28th) Buffalo Sabres (from Florida Panthers), Jiri Kulich
29th) Arizona Coyotes (from Edmonton Oilers), Maveric Lamoureux
30th) Winnipeg Jets (from New York Rangers), Brad Lambert
31st) Tampa Bay Lightning, Isaac Howard
32nd) Edmonton Oilers (from Colorado Avalanche via Arizona Coyotes), Reid Schaefer
This video is also taking place after 2022 NHL Season, and after the 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs, where the Colorado Avalanche defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning in the Finals.
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22 Comments
Oh boy here we go
OMFG I hope he turns into another Kppo kakko flop. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I still buy Powerball and Megamillions when it's worth over a billion… I always hope… I'll take 3% anyday…
Canucks last great year was 10-11. They have the 11th spot and will jump 10 slots to win their hometown phenom, Connor Bedard. The numbers don't lie.
any team can win the lottery, just not the Canucks
The only way this happens is if Connor Bedard has seen how Eric Lindros was drafted. 🤣. But that’s not happening because of the NHLPA. Granted, even if it did, it wouldn’t fix the Canucks problems. He’s not a defenseman. The Canucks have tried to outscore their problems for 2 seasons and all they’ve done is screw themselves out of a high draft pick just to convince season ticket holders that they’re a playoff team next year. There’s a sucker born every minute.
I'd say we need some overdue lottery luck in detroit, but we have #19 and we will get us what we need anyway.
Avs fan here. Don't ask me, Avs got screwed 2 times in the lottery in like a few years but both picks turned out amazing. One of them won Norris and Conn Smythe
I think what people don’t understand is that people’s jobs are on the line. Players and coaches can’t just stop trying. Hockey is their life literally without it they won’t be able to make a living. I don’t think fans can ever understand what is truly at stake for when they want their team to purely tank.
At this point, I am ok with trading away all our 1st round picks for the next 7 years (2023-2030), just to get Bedard. Yes I am that desperate. For sure not the wisest move, but I am just very disappointed as a fan. This mismanagement has no idea what they are doing. And honestly, with this mismanagement, they would just end up trading away our 1st round picks for OEL #2 and Myers #2 and give them $8 million contracts anyways. Might as well get Bedard instead, at least every fan here wants him.
This team has no foresight at all, everything is about winning now, which only leads to consistant 9-11th place finishes, so we only make the playoffs once every 10 years. And even if we make the playoffs, our only hope was a quick 1st round exit? That's why this team is hopeless. Aquaman was just lucky because we already got the Sedin twins to play for us for 2 decades, before he even came into the picture.
Getting Bedard will at least give the fans something to hope for. With Bedard, we can hopefully become a container by maybe 2030, and we will fight for the Cup from 2030-2040. Right now it just feels so hopeless that it is very hard to cheer and pay attention to the Canucks. The more you tried to cheer and pay attention, the more hurt you end up getting.
Yes of course I love the guys like EP40 and AK96 and Hughes. But we aren't nearly enough for the Cup. Not even close.
Me as a Sens fan pre 2015 draft
this team is married to the mushy middle, it's in their dna. they drafted 2nd and 3rd overall one year and built a cup finalist. don't want to do that again!
Blues fan, we also have a 3% chance at drafting Bedard, so we also have that going for us, which is nice
This draft is absolutely insane, so deep
11 is where the 3rd tier ends. After that it's a crapshoot. At 11th we get Moore, Cristall or Leonard.
Say we tank what's stopping EP 40 from not signing a extension with the canucks.
Sure Connor Bedard is a franchise player and maybe the canucks are stupid for not purposefully losing.
But telling a player who wants to win nah you gotta play like crap here on out.
I don't know if he would want to stick around anymore.
It sucks but I'm not going to dwell on it. It's kinda annoying talking about it at this point
What are the chances we draft Michkov? That’s the only player I want drafted for the Canucks
Canuck fans complaining. My god grow up. You sitting here acting like Anaheim and San Jose has ever had a first overall pick. Answer is no! We haven’t! We’re in same boat as you
We weren't going to win this lottery anyway. We've never won ANY lottery, including the one that only had two teams in it. Lol. Just be happy that this is a deep draft year. We should still get somebody decent.
No no no no no. Vancouver doesn't need Bedard. Send him to Chicago, help Chicago get their love back to their Fans and you know how!!!
I think all teams that don't make the playoffs should go into a lottery and just pick each team with equal chance.