Jean-Gabriel Pageau has been overlooked during the six-year sampling of his NHL career for understandable reason, but with a surprisingly budding postseason performance in the first two rounds of this year’s Stanley Cup Playoffs, JGP is proving to be one of the Ottawa Senators’ offensive juggernauts going forward in quite the unmistakable fashion.
After coming off a banner 2015-16 year, the 24-year-old center/winger hybrid slipped under the radar in the this year’s regular season, notching only 12 goals in 82 games. But in the playoffs, Pageau strung together six goals in six games (four recorded just from Game 2) in the second round matchup against the New York Rangers — with an empty-netter in the Game 6 elimination effort to boot.