The Chicago Blackhawks beat the Calgary Flames 5-2 on Tuesday thanks to Connor Bedard's second hat trick . As the former first-overall pick continues to thrive offensively, he has been given a new role. Bedard was an alternate captain for the first time on Tuesday, and made a definitive statement about a dirty hit. Here was his reaction to the Adam Klapka hit on defenseman Connor Murphy.

“I was just arguing our side of what we saw,” Bedard told Scott Powers of The Athletic about his conversation with the referees. “Obviously it was a dirty hit. I think he had time to kind of come back off it, and it’s right at the head. You don’t want to see that from anyone in the game. That’s kind of what we saw. Obviously they saw something different. Murph goes down, it’s a quick hockey game and

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