Sportsnet: Senators' flourishing young core driving force behind offensive surge

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Senators' flourishing young core driving force behind offensive surge

Drake Batherson, 22, and Brady Tkachuk, 21, lead Ottawa in goals with nine each in 25 games. Not since a young Alexei Yashin, 23, Daniel Alfredsson, 24, and Alexandre Daigle, 22, were one-two-three in scoring in 1996-97 have the Senators had such an array of youthful talent leading the way.

In fact, forget the top three – the top five point producers on the Senators are all 24 or younger: Batherson (18 points), Tkachuk (16), Thomas Chabot (15), Tim Stützle (14) and Josh Norris (13)

Stützle is just 19 years old, and Norris is 21. Chabot is the old man of the group at 24.

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Fun fact:

Belleville Senators mirrored something similar last year. 6 of the top 8 scorers were 22 or younger or something to that extent. That’s the youngest a top 3-5 team has been with that young of a leading core in the last 20 or 30+ years in AHL.