CHICAGO -- Connor Bedard and Frank Nazar have become close friends in a short amount of time.

The Chicago Blackhawks forwards are roommates during road trips this season and have also hung out together plenty at home, from going to Chicago Cubs games in the summer to dressing up as "Thing 6 and Thing 7," playing off "6 7," the slang phrase popular among youth that doesn't really have a meaning.

"We spend so much time together, roommates on the road, hanging out, going to dinner every day on the road, we come back (home), we're at the rink. It's like a family," Bedard said. "It's fun to build that with everyone but obviously Frankie's a good example as someone for me who I spend a lot of time with and have a good relationship with. It makes it a lot of fun."

It's fitting, considerin

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