The cream is rising to the top in Ottawa but Tim Stützle's rising stardom is the greatest development of the Senators' 2021-22 season. (HockeyScanner)
If you had to pick the greatest single development of the Senators season it is probably this one: Moving Tim Stützle to centre ice and watching him grow into a future superstar.
Stützle scored on a power play rebound and then in a finer showcase of his talents, entertained the masses with a shorthanded beauty, skating through the Devils before deking Mackenzie Blackwood and tucking home the backhand., describing that goal. “Everyone thought he was going five-hole, and he brings it to the backhand. His speed – I’m going to ask him where he did his skating lessons.
But that five-man power play unit of Chabot, Tkachuk, Stützle, Batherson and Norris has all of the elements — Tkachuk’s net-front presence, the Norris shot, the puck skills around them — to be one of the best in the NHL. On Tuesday, that group scored twice with the extra man. Smith likes the idea of having his best players get at least some time on the kill, even if Stützle may never be the “first one over the boards” when the Sens take a penalty.
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