superlatives for the 2025-26 black hawk season it's over it was long it was fun sometimes it was

best of times and worst of times it was it was the best of times and the blursht of times as we

learned on the simpsons many many years ago so we've got some superlatives for you today starting

with most improved most improved black hawks thereores, I think there's a significant amount

of candidates here. Couple feel obvious. Mario, you have the floor first on these superlatives.

You know, I think it's, most improved can go a lot of different ways. I think you could go for

someone who maybe you didn't have high expectations for, but then outplayed them.

Louis Cravier is definitely a guy that I had in mind for that.

But I think as far as the improvement we saw and the impact, Connor Bardard.

Yeah.

Like I think what we saw from him years one and two, it was good, not really the level we expected, and then goes through last off season,

the way he started this year up to the injury, and then after the Olympic break,

that is the next level of him.

And it's a guy that was on pace with some of the highest scores in the league up until his injury.

If he never gets hurt, we might be talking about Connor Bardard leading this team

much closer to the playoffs.

He probably plays for Team Canada at the Olympics and probably has more votes than he'll get

for like postseason awards, actual postseason awards.

So my most improved for the most important most improved, is Connor Bedard.

I agree with you.

And as we talk about, you know, the players developing on this team and closing those gaps

between the good moments and the bad moments and making those valleys smaller,

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