Chuck Fletcher Dissects Round 1 of The NHL Draft
The Jeff Marek Show
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🗓️ 29 June 2023
⏱️ 100 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | And with the first overall selection in the 2023 NHL draft, the Chicago |
| 0:09.1 | Black Hawks are very proud to select from the Regina Pats Pats the Western Hockey League Connor Bedard |
| 0:17.0 | As if we were surprised by that. But the Connor Bedard era starts off in Chicago and |
| 0:28.7 | Imagine being Connor Bedard waking up almost every day. I would say not even almost every day for like the last three years going I know |
| 0:36.1 | that in the 2023 draft I'm going first overall. Imagine having that kind of |
| 0:41.9 | power that's like Connor McDavid every morning Imagine having that kind of power. |
| 0:43.0 | That's like Connor McDavid every morning waking up and going, |
| 0:46.0 | yeah, I could probably score tonight. |
| 0:50.0 | That is a superpower. And we know that those don't actually exist, but in the case of sport |
| 0:57.3 | That is the superpower and in Connor Bedard's case |
| 1:00.8 | That is knowing how great you are. |
| 1:03.6 | Is there a lot of work for him to become a star in the game? |
| 1:06.2 | Sure. |
| 1:07.4 | It's got to prove it at the NHL level, |
| 1:09.0 | but I think we're gonna be just fine knowing that. |
| 1:18.2 | But aside from the hockey thing with Connor Bedard, the hockey thing, that thing he's really good at, aside from the on ice stuff, yesterday, I loved when he was sitting down with David |
| 1:29.1 | Amber and Sam Cosantino and Chuck Fletcher and he talked about his grandfather. Now for those |
| 1:35.6 | that don't know his grandfather passed away a couple of years ago but he |
| 1:40.2 | wanted to make sure he gave a shout out to his grandfather and carried around a poker chip with his picture on it. |
| 1:45.0 | As someone who was close with his own grandfather and much like many others out there I can appreciate carrying around a piece of him with you wherever you go. |
| 1:58.0 | I do that myself. |
| 2:00.0 | But that was a really kind of touching moment for me and looking at Connor Bedard the person |
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