Here's today's NHL Nugget – this month's edition of Shinny or Nothing discusses how Connor Bedard played and trained for hockey from when he was just a kid.

From shooting pucks in a backyard setup to playing shinny in North Vancouver to bringing a hockey stick on a family vacation in Hawaii and more, Bedard lived hockey long before he became a budding NHL star on the Chicago Blackhawks.

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