This sens fan is happy he's getting to play out his dream in DET. Had no say in being traded to OTT and clearly him and his family are more comfortable in the US. Totally his right. Wish that dude the best of luck in Detroit that other than when they're playing against Ottawa.
Always special, and pretty cool to see a hometown kids dream come true. Welcome home Alex! I can’t wait to see you lighting the lamp at LCA! …… and every other rink in the league LoL. LGRW
I used to bowl on a team with his grandfather. Seeing him as a teenager, I would’ve never guessed he would make it to the NHL, but the game has changed quite a bit. I’m indifferent about the trade/signing as I know we needed a goal scorer, but I think we were more in need of a guy with some sandpaper to protect all our younger and smaller players…adding him to the roster is really going to show that as he’s a small player. We need some toughness so we don’t get pushed around like Ottawa did to us before the trade deadline. While I’ll say we are a much better team now as opposed to in April, but we are not a team that’s going to do anything in the playoffs if we slide in.
This guy had a perfect chance to jump on the sens 2nd line and own that line, and realistically if the hype was real his presence should've made that line excell, instead he underperformed and his presence on the line actually made Batherson take a step back in points from the year prior, and he spent most of the year with a hurt ego because he was behind Tkachuk on the depth chart. Looking at how much his point total dropped after leaving the Kane safety net and Tkachuk finishing with more points at 23 then the 26 year old Debrincat ever has shows that Smith made the right decision putting Tkachuk ahead of him on the depth chart. Tavares and Nylander can put up 80pt seasons playing 2nd line minutes, so anyone who says Debrincats down year is because of playing 2nd line minutes is just making excuses
So apparently he wanted out of Ottawa cause he wanted to be a 1st line guy and didn’t like being #2 behind tkachuk?? .. sounds like yzerman’s gonna love him 🤣 🤣
“I like going to Cedar Point, I’m barely tall enough to go on the rides”.. 😂 If DeBrincat scores more than 30, and is a + player I’ll celebrate this signing.
