“We are playing with confidence, we are playing with simplicity, and I think that’s the main thing,” he says after a two-goal performance against Dallas on Friday.
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Josh norris it’s firing on all cylinders.
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The Ottawa Senators center is coming off a two-goal effort in a 4-1 win over the Dallas Stars on Friday night at the American Airlines Arena and has five goals in seven games so far this season. The Senators will now continue their three-game road trip Monday night against the Chicago Blackhawks at the United Center.
Playing next door Brady tkachuk and Drake Batherson Norris, 22, is very confident and that has helped the Senators go 3-4-0 to start the National Hockey League schedule. For the sake of comparison, the Senators didn’t get their third win until Game 16 of the all-Canadian division last season.
“We are playing with confidence, we are playing with simplicity, and I think that’s the main thing,” Norris said. “We know how we have to play in the last two games and we have been clicking and finding chemistry. Drake is making plays and Brady is on the paycheck, but now it’s a lot of fun. “
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Norris says the trio have good chemistry.
“We read each other well and we keep it simple,” he said.
This and that
The NHL awarded the Senators as wingers Tim stuetzle and Batherson assists on Saturday in Norris’ first goal of Friday’s game at 5:49 in the first period. Officials off the ice in Dallas hadn’t given any assist during the game, but the league looked again … The Blackhawks are 0-6-2 to start the season, but the Senators’ head coach Dj smith says they remain a formidable opponent led by veteran forwards Jonathan Toews and Patrick kane . There is no reason for senators to take anyone lightly. “I watched them play their last two games and they’ve been good, but they haven’t had great goalkeepers lately,” Smith told reporters in Chicago on Saturday. “They have had some bad breaks that have ended in their network. They are playing over the puck, they are not giving you gifts. In the NHL, anyone can beat anyone. They have Stanley Cup champions on their team with Toews and Kane, so there are a lot of players there. For whatever reason, they are bitten by snakes there. We just have to worry about ourselves. ”… Smith had Norris on the ice for most of the last three minutes when he was trying to get a hat-trick on Friday. Had Norris been able to complete a three-goal effort, it would have been the first time in 20 years that the Senators had players record hat tricks in consecutive games. Batherson completed the feat in Monday’s 7-5 home loss to the Washington Capitals. Alexei Yashin and Beto Kudelski had consecutive three-goal efforts on November 3 and November 5, 1993, respectively. The last time it happened, Yashin and Radek bonk combined for hat tricks on January 4 (Bonk) and January 6, 2001. Give Smith credit for trying to give Norris every chance.
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OUT OF THE GLASS
Smith was satisfied with the center Dylan gambrell’s effort in his debut with the Senators. Acquired from the San Jose Sharks for a seventh-round pick in 2022, Gambrell provided the Senators with depth in the middle. He was 7 of 9 in the head-to-head circle and played 10 minutes and nine seconds. “I thought it was good. He was competitive in the defensive zone and did a good job on penalties, ”Smith said. “But he was more important in the circle of confrontations. That is what we need. We have not been good in the circle. If you can win draws, you can start with the puck and we have some lines that can make some plays. If he can keep winning draws like that, he can help us ”… Defense Thomas chabot played 25:44 against the Stars and was plus-2, while his teammate Artem zub it was plus-2 in 12:36 pm … Friday marked the Senators’ first game on American soil since March 11, 2020, and was the first in the NHL for many Ottawa players. Goalie Filip Gustavsson I enjoyed the opportunity to play. “It was a lot of fun playing against Braden holtby Gustavsson said. “I saw a lot of highlights from him growing up and it was great to play against him” … Dallas head coach Rick bowness He said the Stars had a lot of opportunities, but Gustavsson stood his ground. “The opportunities we have should get us back in the game, but we didn’t score,” Bowness said. “The right guys have opportunities, but right now they are not going to play them. We can’t give anyone three goals like we did (on Friday) ”.
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THE LAST WORDS
He was a long way from his home in Ottawa, but Neville gallimore I finally got to see the senators live. The Dallas Cowboys defensive tackle attended Friday’s win over the Stars after receiving an invitation from the Senators to attend. Gallimore, who grew up in Ottawa, wondered aloud via Twitter if he would ever get a chance to see his hometown team live.
Senators dropped a couple of tickets to Gallimore and he was proudly wearing an Ottawa jersey, but Stars officials made sure that didn’t last. During the second period, the game’s arena host showed up in a Dallas jersey and made sure Gallimore wore it over the Senators jersey.
Gallimore, a 2020 third-round draft pick by the Cowboys, made a commitment at one point by pulling up his Stars sweater so people could still see the Senators’ logo. After the game, he went down to the Senators locker room, where he posed for a photo with Josh brown , Tkachuk and Chabot.
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