Hyman is a really good player that can play effectively with really good players. I'm slightly dubious of citing the production stats of a guy who's riding shotgun with the dude who once turned Pat Maroon into a 27 goal scorer but I would be willing to bet that him being a really solid dude that lots of their players seem to like playing with is a big factor here.
Regardless, I think it's champagne problems, I'd be willing to bet if you stuck Bedard (or Johnston, or Scheifele, or Jarvis) on 97s wing they'd be just fine. Remember when Chris Kunitz went bar down comedically hard in the gold medal game back in 2014?
Personally I'd love to see Bedard out here with some of the big dogs rather than guys like Bertuzzi, guy is just so much fun to watch.
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