{"id":538537,"date":"2026-04-03T14:25:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T14:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/538537\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T14:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T14:25:12","slug":"connor-bedards-truth-bomb-on-unique-5-forward-powerplay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/538537\/","title":{"rendered":"Connor Bedard’s truth bomb on unique 5-forward powerplay"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Chicago Blackhawks<\/a> have a very bright future, and Connor Bedard looks like a player who could lead the team forward<\/a>. The problem with a lot of talent is that it’s hard to give all the players their opportunities on powerplays and in top-six minutes. The Vegas Golden Knights adopted a five-forward powerplay rollout this season, and the Blackhawks have done the same with Bedard up top in the usual defenseman’s role. It’s something the star has embraced,<\/a> according to Ben Pope via X, formerly Twitter.<\/p>\n

\u201cI honestly think it’s 100x easier to shoot a puck from up there. You just have the puck a lot\u2026 I feel pretty confident that I can get my shot through, not at any time, but most of the time,\u201d Bedard told reporters.<\/p>\n

The Blackhawks added another potentially elite forward to their group with Anton Frondell coming to North America after his season in Sweden ended<\/a>. Frondell is the team’s top prospect, which led him to start on the wing with Bedard and get a spot right away on the first powerplay unit.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut at the end of the day, I’m higher up than all the other guys,\u201d Bedard continued. \u201cIf I have a perfect lane to shoot, I will, but I’d rather have [Frondell] or [Frank Nazar] taking a one-timer or [Tyler Bertuzzi] and [Teuvo Teravainen] around the net back-door.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anton Frondell and Connor Bedard might be teaming up in Chicago right now, but the goal down the road is a three-headed monster down the middle of the ice with Nazar acting as the third center. If each of those players can lead their own lines, it’ll be a very interesting future for the Blackhawks.<\/p>\n

The Chicago Blackhawks have a very bright future, and Connor Bedard looks like a player who could lead the team forward. The problem with a lot of talent is that it’s hard to give all the players their opportunities on powerplays and in top-six minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago Blackhawks have a very bright future, and Connor Bedard looks like a player who could lead…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5115],"tags":[521,37,96,5263,508,5,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-538537","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-blackhawks","8":"tag-blackhawks","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-blackhawks","11":"tag-chicagoblackhawks","12":"tag-connor-bedard","13":"tag-hockey","14":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116341239143015679","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}