Maybe someday, a young prodigy’s first game against Connor Bedard will be a story, with reporters asking the new phenom how he’ll feel about facing one of the best of an earlier generation.
For now, Bedard is the young prodigy, and in the Blackhawks’ 4-2 loss to the Capitals on Sunday, the superstar veteran he opposed for the first time was Caps captain Alex Ovechkin. On Tuesday, Bedard will line up against players a little closer to his age: the Oilers’ Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl.
