In last week’s edition of NKB’s Notebook, I explained that the Sens had struggled so badly in the prior week that it was a bit of a challenge to pick out what to talk about. Everything was broken! Fortunately, that wasn’t the case this week even though the team did finish 1-2; two of the team’s young stars-in-the-making gave the squad a much needed shot in the arm as Tim Stützle and Erik Brännström provided some real positive play for us to sink our teeth into.
So let’s start with a few encouraging things that I saw from the kids last week:
- Even a prospect as highly regarded as Stützle was bound to have some struggles adapting to the NHL, and besides his highlight reel goal against the Leafs, the German wunderkind was indeed mortal for long stretches early in the campaign.