CONNOR BEDARD, MEET YOUR MATCH… THE NHL’S NEXT FRANCHISE PROSPECT

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Today we’re talking about the projected 1st overall pick at the 2024 NHL Entry Draft, Macklin Celebrini, and some of the numbers comparing him to 2023 talent Connor Bedard.

The 2024 NHL Entry Draft is filled with a lot of top NHL prospects. Some are elite, and others could be even seen as franchise NHL prospects. Names to look out for include Macklin Celebrini, Cole Eiserman, Artyom Levshunov, Ivan Demidov, Berkly Catton, Sam Dickinson, Aron Kiviharju, Konsta Helenius, Henry Mews, Cole Hutson, Maxim Massé, Zayne Parekh, Tanner Howe, Igor Chernyshov, Adam Jiricek, Michael Brandsegg-Nygård, Ryder Ritchie, Beckett Sennecke, Charlie Elick, Zeev Buium, Veeti Väisänen, Will Skahan, Anthony Cristoforo, Liam Greentree, Alexander Zetterberg, Emil Hemming, Carter Yakemchuk, Andrew Basha, Jakub Chromiak, Sacha Boisvert, Justin Poirier, and Michael Hage.

This video is taking place after the 2023 NHL Entry Draft, and after the 2023 Stanley Cup Playoffs.

The 2023 NHL Draft 1st Round went as follows:

1st) Chicago Blackhawks, Connor Bedard
2nd) Anaheim Ducks, Leo Carlsson
3rd) Columbus Blue Jackets, Adam Fantilli
4th) San Jose Sharks, Will Smith
5th) Montreal Canadiens, David Reinbacher
6th) Arizona Coyotes, Dmitri Simashev
7th) Philadelphia Flyers, Matvei Michkov
8th) Washington Capitals, Ryan Leonard
9th) Detroit Red Wings, Nate Danielson
10th) St. Louis Blues, Dalibor Dvorsky
11th) Vancouver Canucks, Tom Willander
12th) Arizona Coyotes (from Ottawa Senators), Daniil But
13th) Buffalo Sabres, Zach Benson
14th) Pittsburgh Penguins, Brayden Yager
15th) Nashville Predators, Matthew Wood
16th) Calgary Flames, Samuel Honzek
17th) Detroit Red Wings (from New York Islanders via Vancouver Canucks), Axel Sandin Pellikka
18th) Winnipeg Jets, Colby Barlow
19th) Chicago Blackhawks (from Tampa Bay Lightning), Oliver Moore
20th) Seattle Kraken, Eduard Sale
21st) Minnesota Wild, Charlie Stramel
22nd) Philadelphia Flyers (from Los Angeles Kings via Columbus Blue Jackets), Oliver Bonk
23rd) New York Rangers, Gabe Perreault
24th) Nashville Predators (from Edmonton Oilers), Tanner Molendyk
25th) St. Louis Blues (from Toronto Maple Leafs), Otto Stenberg
26th) San Jose Sharks (from New Jersey Devils), Quentin Musty
27th) Colorado Avalanche, Calum Ritchie
28th) Toronto Maple Leafs (from Boston Bruins via Washington Capitals), Easton Cowan
29th) St. Louis Blues (from Dallas Stars via New York Rangers), Theo Lindstein
30th) Carolina Hurricanes, Bradley Nadeau
31st) Colorado Avalanche (from Florida Panthers via Montreal Canadiens), Mikhail Gulyayev
32nd) Vegas Golden Knights, David Edstrom

This video is also taking place after 2023 NHL Season, and after the 2023 Stanley Cup Playoffs, where the Vegas Golden Knights defeated the Florida Panthers in the Finals.

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Make no mistake my friend this video right here is not why I want that is being reserved for the new year I do have plans to get things going and I’m sure it’s going to be a great time for all of us to analyze and break down the

Prospects of the 2024 NHL entry draft but in today’s video we are taking a very preliminary look at the top guy the big dog the number one projected player in this year’s draft because when it comes to the number one player of the most previous draft Conor Bard I feel

Like now it’s finally time to Define his match let’s talk today about 224 projected first overall pick in the draft mlin celebrini and just how good he has been throughout this entire draft eligible season spoiler alert it’s been much better than we thought it could be

Now we’re going to do a lot of this as the why I want season comes and goes so we don’t really need to explore every single intricate detail but just going over the main profile right here mlin celebrini is a 17-year-old forward from Vancouver BC he’s 6′ 190 lb left-handed

Forward and as you could probably guess by everything we’ve been talking about heading into this he is projected to go first overall he’s ranked number one on the Consolidated list the elite prospects list d face off hockey news Bob Mackenzie mck’s button and Dober he’s going to be number one let’s face

It now the thing about mlin celebrini that put him on the map last year was his total dominant draft minus one season with the Chicago Steel in the USHL there he had 86 points in 50 games played 46 goals 40 assists and was a stud for Team Canada at the world under

18s now you got to remember he was an underage player at this time so he was only 16 years years old when he played off against this competition yet he was still dominant part of what made this so special during the USHL season was the record itself here’s a tweet made by

Gabe Foley from almost a year ago that talks specifically about what 86 points for mlin celebrini means if he accomplishes that number which he did he will shatter Adam Van til’s draft minus one scoring record of 74 points in the US HL Kyle Connor also recorded 74 points too

If you aren’t on the celebrini hype train already get on it this kid is Elite now you could see from the timeline this tweet was made in January of 2023 mlin celebrini did indeed get those 86 points shattering the usl’s point production record for 16-year-old players I think we could all acknowledge

That for Adam vanan Tilly he became a beast in the NCAA and now he is a good NHL rookie and K Connor is one of the top goal scorers in the entire NHL so even as far back as last season there was already a pretty good hype train going on for mlin

Celebrini however this is where things get crazy because if you take a look at what celebrini is up to nowadays he’s playing for beu in the NCAA he’s on a break right now he’s playing for Team Canada at the world juniors or he’s not playing he actually got ejected the

Other day because he hit a player from behind he got suspended so interesting to see that but mlin celebrini in the NCAA stin he’s had so far has 25 points in 15 games played way over a point per game again as a 17-year-old forward now you may be asking yourself why is mlin

Celebrini in the NCAA if he’s only 17 aren’t you supposed to be an 18-year-old to enter college and yeah that’s right the difference here though is that Macklin celebrini had himself accelerated schooling to enter the NCAA early Not only was this guy a stud of a hockey player leading the USHL and goals

And points setting the us HL U 17 goals and points record Being the forward of the Year Rookie of the Year winning the bronze medal on the u8 team and being a top three player on that Squad to he also got his studies done and he was so

Exceptional that he found himself in the NCAA a year early where he is doing all these things and he’s keeping up with other guys take a look at this Adam vanan Tilly in his first 15 NCAA games as a draft eligible had 11 goals and 26 points mlin celebrini has 10 goals and

25 points celebrini is keeping pace and doing it while being 8 months younger than fan Tilly was now an interesting thing about this entire tweet is that you had a reply from clap bombs who is the higher ceiling celebrini or mishk kov you actually have Marco Deo who

Writes for Habs hockey now go out there and say this I’d do celebrini Bard is ahead but it’s a real conversation between celebrini fantell and Carlson as to who would come in second now to make things even more crazy crazy when you talk about the Connor Bard argument

Because we did bring his name up earlier in the video Byron Bader had himself his own model I’m pretty sure y’all are familiar with Bader and his work he does a lot of prospecting stuff he’s done so over the years his work has been featured on sportset TSN and the

Athletic he posted the other day the developing charts of mlin celebrini and Connor Bard essentially saying here that in their draft eligible seasons celebrini is just a shade underneath what Bedard had been two in Bard’s draft eligible year in the WHL his nhle e score was 62 cbris in the NCAA right now

Is at 60 which is phenomenal if you take a look at the star probabilities here for celebrini IT projects him as a 99 percentile chance of becoming an NHL Superstar and his draft year comparable players are Mario Lemieux Conor McDavid Robert reel Paul Korea and Patrick Kane

Not a bad listen names to be compared to based off of the analytical model now you may go out there and say okay wait a minute like where are these numbers coming from what does Byron Bader’s model actually do well it takes a look at all these things the age the size the

League the position just how good they have been production-wise and comparing it to historical data of guys in the past so this is a really interesting look of collecting all the data available and plugging it into an algorithm that spits out players that are most comparable to what celebrini

Has been able to do and Conor Bard had similar results on his own ranking when he was draft eligible as well sharing the likes of Conor McDavid on his own list now Conor Bard was not compared to Mario Lamie I think that’s pretty easy to see why but there still are some

Other very fantastic players that were listed on both of these lists so when it comes to celebrini this is a guy who I mean if you wanted to talk about p&le and equivalency scores mapping out what these first overall picks had done in their draft eligible Seasons this is a

Much better player profile than what we saw out of silovsky it’s better than what we saw out of Owen power it’s probably better than Alexi lafr year I’d say it’s better than Jack Hughes he’s out producing NCAA competition Jack Hugh playing against Junior players it’s better than Rasmus Dalene this player is

At that same level of the Connor Bedard likee profile we had seen last year and the crazy part is if you go over to the NHL draft lottery odds on ton.com Chicago currently has the second best odds at getting the first overall pick now the numbers and everything are

Outdated because I am pre-recording this video on Friday but Chicago has themselves a 13.5% chance at grabbing Macklin celebrini so if you wanted to say having the two Vancouver guys in Bard and celebrini playing together is a possibility oh yeah it’s definitely a possibility in Chicago you do have yourselves a few

Articles popping up here and there now talking about this idea we’ll go into this and more as we get into the why I want territory of the year that’s when we’re going to break down what exactly it is celebrated as well the skills what he excels at and just things that we

Could look out for as he makes his NHL debut but for now acknowledging just the strict raw hard points this is a superstar caliber Prospect who was doing fantastic things in the NCAA who is going to light up the world juniors he’s playing on a line or he was playing on a

Line with Fraser Mitten and Jordan Dumay two guys who are just great prospects in their own rights and assuming he comes back from the suspension and he serves his time and he’s able to do what it is that he wants to do without holding back once the tournament fully gets into

Swing then celebrini is probably going to have himself a world junior showcase for the ages even if he is wearing that caged up helmet that you have to wear because you’re an underage player so Connor bard meet your match he’s eligible on the 2024 NHL entry draft and

He’s right neck and neck with the way you progressed from last year let me know your thoughts in the comment section below about how good mlin celebrini is and whether or not you buy the hype that he’s going to be as good as Bard you could definitely say that a

Lot of the numbers we looked at sort of in a very slight way give the edge to Connor which is totally all right because Connor Bard is one of the best prospects we have seen in a decade so being just a shade under that totally fine but but because there is a close

Enough comparison to be made I wanted to go out there and make this video Conor Bard meet your match mlin celebrini is here to stay and he may even be heading to Chicago depending on how you guys end up winning and losing games celebrini and Bard on the same team would be kind

Of nuts wouldn’t it be so let me know your thoughts in the comment section below about celebrini and the way he plays the game I hope you enjoyed this v9 and Bye