The Ottawa Senators may be looking for another bargain bin addition up front, but for now they’ll give that opportunity to a young forward. Logan Brown has been recalled, giving him the opportunity that his agent complained earlier this month hadn’t been available so far in his career. Brown has scored seven points in five AHL games this season.
Brown, 21, was selected 11th overall in 2016 but has played just six games at the NHL level so far despite being a dominant presence in the minor leagues. The 6’6″ center has 49 points in 61 games overall for the Belleville Senators, an impressive total for any young player stepping into professional hockey.
With other names like Charlie McAvoy, Jakob Chychrun, Alex DeBrincat and Sam Girard finding huge success in the NHL even after being selected later in the draft, Brown has a lot of expectations on him to develop into an impact player for the Senators. Whether he can do that is still to be seen, but in what is expected to be a lost season, why not give him the opportunity to impress?
Brown was needed because the Senators have placed both Colin White and Artem Anisimov on injured reserve. White is expected to miss three to five weeks with a hip flexor/groin injury, while Anisimov is out one to two weeks with a lower-body injury.
Let the kid play. He’s healthy, he’s huge and he’s a talent. And don’t worry Ottawa…you’ll still get a great chance at Lafreniere or Byfield.
Maybe even both with as bad as San Jose is playing lol.
Ottawa seems like they can’t help being their own worst enemy. “Let’s crap on another first round pick and dare him to beg out.” Maybe give the kid a chance and try to “reclaim” an asset that you’re letting slip out of your hands. That would be a novel idea.
Hey, they do screw up a lot, but that’s not really what’s going on here. Brown showed up to camp and didn’t impress in the rookie tryouts or the real camp. He deserved to be sent down, and then he did all he could to prove that he deserves to be with the big club after a hot start. While I hope all the top prospects are up by the end of the season, you need to make sure they deserve it. Otherwise you’re just rewarding failure and that’s probably not what they want the kids to learn.
Man, why does that sound a little like Puljujarvi-itis? Some first/second-rounders play their butts off and are anxious (almost to a fault) to show their teams that they made the right choice. Then, there’s others who get infected with a bad case of entitlement. Is Brown looking like the latter?
It is possible. I’m hoping that initial report was just an agent trying to light a fire under the Sens though for his own best interests. I haven’t read anywhere that Brown is actually upset about his handling, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t the case. He may have given the agent the green light to get it out there.
Thought for a minute that his agent was the infamous Markus Lehto, but it’s Andy Scott. Maybe he & Lehto are kindred spirits…
Hopefully Alex Formenton, and Maxime Lajoie want be far behind in rebuild. Finally a chance to play for Logan Brown. albeit due to injuries.
I don’t get the Formenton hype. Great speed, but below average hands. Bottom six’er.
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Formenton is all speed lack of finish in junior with the Knights. Sens are doomed nothing to build on.
Agreed imagine having the speed but no finish hands awful!… id rather have lack of speed and finish!