Five Thoughts: Brännström earning the coach’s trust, Chabot’s excellence & more

Three days without Sens games feels kind of weird after that ridiculous stretch, doesn’t it?

Here are some thoughts. Five of them.

Development Mode

I’d like to draw attention to something D.J. Smith said before Saturday’s game against the Boston Bruins. Ian Mendes asked the coach if he had a conversation with Erik Brännström about the three penalties the young defenseman had taken in the previous game. D.J. had this to say:

“No. I talked to him after the second penalty in the first, but part of young guys learning is them knowing. If they don’t know, then you have to have a talk, but he knew. He knew that they weren’t good penalties. (...) But we’re gonna turn the page and he gets a fresh…