When the Bruins entered the season having filled the gaps left by wingers Rick Nash and Tim Schaller with only Chris Wagner and Joakim Nordstrom, fans were left to make an assumption: The Kids Will Step Up.
It’s not an unreasonable assumption given how odd the year previous was in terms of injury luck, and in terms of how nearly every youngster who took a spot succeeded, but this year has been pretty different in the early goings. Wagner has looked like the classic rough-and-tumble fourth liner he was signed to be.