Connor Bedard passed Gretzky and Lindros with a four-point game against Sweden.
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Connor Bedard now has 18 points in four games at the 2023 World Juniors, which matches the single-tournament scoring record for a Canadian co-held by Dale McCourt (1976) and Brayden Schenn (2011).
Connor Bedard is now on pace to break Peter Forsberg’s World Juniors points record. Bedard had played minor hockey with West Vancouver Academy Prep in the Canadian Sport School Hockey League.
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Connor Bedard was only the third 16-year-old to have a 100-point season in the WHL, and the first to do so in the 21st century.
Connor Bedard garnered attention at the 2022 NHL Entry Draft as a highly-touted future NHL player, with The New York Times, profiling him as “the most exciting future NHL player attending this week’s draft.”
On April 18, 2022, Connor Bedard was named to the Canadian team for the IIHF World U18 Championships, the only player returning from the previous year’s championship team.
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