Belleville Splits the Weekend with Great Offense and Poor Defense

Jason ScourseEarly into the season, two important trends have emerged for the Belleville Senators. First, they have a lot of firepower up front. Belleville’s forwards have been posting solid numbers thus far - with six players posting a point per game number of 0.7 or better. Rookies like Josh Norris and Alex Formenton have been meeting the high expectations set before them by fans and management alike. As for the forwards who have been around the block once or twice in the AHL - like Drake Batherson, Vitaly Abramov and Jordan Szwarz - they’re doing well too. Where things have fallen apart thus far - the second emerging trend - is on the back end. Outside of Max Lajoie and the currently injured Christian Jaros, the BSens are very thin on the back end. So much so that they’ve added multiple defenders on PTOs in the last few weeks just to find something that sticks.

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