Bedard might be the favourite to go first in the 2023 draft but both players should be franchise cornerstones.
MONCTON, N.B.—Connor Bedard has heard a great deal about Adam Fantilli. Fantilli has heard a great deal about Bedard. They are Canada’s next two hockey phenoms, teammates now at the national team’s selection camp for the world junior championship.
“We’re good friends and I’m cheering for him,” Bedard said. “I follow his stats and his game. He’s been unreal, so it’s been awesome. I think it’s funny when people pit us against each other. We’ve joked about it a bit but we’re both cheering for each other now we’re on the same team. I’m hoping all the best for him.”
“I think my faceoffs are a lot better, and I’m playing better penalty kill, I’m improving in the defensive zone,” he said. Fantilli is six-foot-two and 195 pounds, an imposing presence and a hard shot. He sees himself in the Nathan MacKinnon-Jamie Benn-Patrice Bergeron mould, though it is Auston Matthews whose shot he wants to duplicate.
Fantilli has been in and out of Hockey Canada’s program, last playing in the world under-18 tournament, with Bedard, in the spring. Bedard had six goals. Fantilli had one.
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