At the beginning of this season, I wrote an article about a few Sens players who had good rookie seasons in 2020-21 and might be due to regress in 2021-22. With this season now almost at the halfway mark and two of those players likely to miss a lot of time in the second half, I thought now would be a good time to check in on those sophomore players and see how they’ve performed relative to expectations.
In the preseason article, I wrote about Zub, Norris, Stützle and Batherson (who was not a rookie last year, but did have a breakout season, so I decided he could count).