Brayden Schenn has completely exceeded my expectations. He's wearing Upshall's old number and I've repeatedly seen number 10 go up the ice and think 'HOLY CRAP! Wha'ts gotten into Upshall?!' before realizing that it was Schenn.
His backchecking and speed are definitely good enough to be a center. I kept hearing he wasn't good enough down the middle, but in the small sample size so far i'm not seeing that.
heh
Jori Lehtera drew into the Flyers' lineup for the first time on Thursday.
Lehtera was a healthy scratch for the Flyers' first six games of the 2017-18 campaign. He skated alongside Valtteri Filppula and Wayne Simmonds and logged 12:06 minutes of ice time. "Lehts did a good job," Flyers coach Dave Hakstol said. "To step in in game No. 7, not having played, I thought Lehts went out and played a real rock solid game. Lehts has been here. Lehts has done the work. You guys don’t see behind the scenes the kind of effort and what that takes as a teammate every day to stay ready."
No way to know if he can do it a whole season but Petro is now getting better offensive numbers (that were already decent) to go with his good defensive game. He’s a way too early Norris candidate.
