What we've learned about NHL's top 2023 draft pick and next generational talent this week in Chicago

Within 48 hours of being taken first overall at the 2023 NHL Draft by the Blackhawks, Connor Bedard was in Chicago at the team's prospect development camp for a busy week.

Bedard met with reporters several times, giving the rebuilding Blackhawks their biggest wave of positive summer media exposure since they last won the Stanley Cup in 2015. He was pitched many of the same questions, several times. He consistently gave the same answers.

Bedard unswervingly defines his image with this quote: "I'm still a 17-year-old kid, but there are possibilities that come along with noise and attention and stuff. And I'm aware of that, but you know in the room, I'm just one of the guys."

Bedard turns 18 on July 17. He will probably differentiate himself on the ice starting this fall, but for now still says he just wants to make the Blackhawks.

Other quotes that sum up Bedard's humility.

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We might have learned a few new little things about Bedard this week. None were controversial, of course. 

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