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Connor Bedard puts on a show, and NHL teams get their tanking strategies ready
It was about this time, seven years ago, that the hockey world was agog about a Canadian teenager named Connor.
That one, surname McDavid, had arrived at the World Junior Hockey Championship as the almost-certain first overall pick in the upcoming NHL Draft, off a stellar junior career with gaudy point totals and a string of ridiculous…