Why Connor Bedard is Hockey’s Next Big Thing

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🗓️ 8 May 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In hockey, there’s only one player who’s known as “The Great One:” Wayne Gretzky. But in the decades since #99 hung up his skates…there’s been a whole bunch of “Next Ones.” Alex Ovechkin is “The Great 8,” Sidney Crosby was “The Next One,” Connor McDavid is sometimes called “The Next Sidney Crosby.” And for 2023’s projected first overall pick…17 year old Connor Bedard, the pressure is on to follow in that legacy. So today, as the NHL prepares for the draft lottery, Emily Kaplan tells us a little more about hockey’s next “Next Big Thing”...and whether he can live up to the hype as the game’s latest “can’t miss kid.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's my Remetcats.
0:03.4	I know you're used to hearing me join the show to explain what's happening in the World
0:06.3	of College basketball or hosting every Sunday morning on ESPN Radio or maybe even reading
0:11.0	my words about everything Minneapolis and the star to boom.
0:14.2	But you are going to be hearing different voices hosting ESPN Daily in the coming weeks.
0:18.3	And I'm lucky enough to be one of them.
0:20.7	I'll be with you the rest of the week, helping this podcast do what it's always done.
0:25.4	Tell the best sports stories in audio, day in and day out.
0:29.1	Thanks for listening.
0:35.2	Emily Kaplan, as you know, I live here in Minneapolis.
0:38.7	I have a PhD in cold weather.
0:41.4	So I can't understand why someone would go to a place colder than this,
0:45.6	but you spent some time a couple months ago in Regina Saskatchewan.
0:49.7	Did you lose a bet?
0:50.9	Why would you voluntarily go to a place that cold?
0:54.8	When I try to get away and winter, Myron, I like to go to warm tropical places,
0:58.3	but I decided to go to Regina Saskatchewan for one reason only.
1:01.3	And that's because the unanimous projected number one pick of the 2023 NHL draft,
1:06.8	a kid I've been hearing about for years,
1:08.7	Conor Bedard places Junior Hockey there.
1:14.1	But hard throws again as the day shoots, guys.
1:17.7	Patrick Cole, Conor Bedard.
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