Connor Bedard appears to discover a approach to put jaws on the ground each time he touches the puck. On Wednesday night time, he did so with a beautiful additional time winner that lifted the Chicago Blackhawks over the Winnipeg Jets.

Bedard opened the scoring with a gorgeous effort to poke house his personal rebound within the first interval, and the groups went to additional time deadlocked at 1-1. It was then that Bedard offered a second that Blackhawks followers will not quickly overlook.

Defenseman Alex Vlasic slid a cross to Bedard within the Chicago zone, and the rookie celebrity did the remaining. Bedard began churning his toes, and he picked up velocity by way of the impartial zone. The 2 Jets with any probability of stopping Bedard backpedaled too far and gave him sufficient area to tear a shot previous Connor Hellebuyck.

That was Bedard’s first additional time objective, and it in all probability will not be his final. It was additionally Bedard’s fifteenth tally of his rookie season, and he’s on tempo for 36 targets as a rookie. That will be essentially the most since Auston Matthews scored 40 within the 2016-17 marketing campaign.

These two targets towards the Jets continued the torrid tempo that Bedard has been on over the past couple weeks. Bedard is using a five-game level streak, and he has three targets and 5 assists in that stretch.