So many rookies across sports enter the pros having never previously dealt with losing — think Bryce Young going from Alabama to the NFL’s Carolina Panthers, for example — that it’s easy to assume every rookie enters the pros without that experience.
But that’s not actually the case for Connor Bedard. He dealt with plenty of losing during his junior-hockey career, just as he’s dealing with plenty of losing on this year’s Blackhawks, whom coach Luke Richardson admitted Tuesday hit a season low-point on their most recent road trip.
