“Playmaker.”
It’s a word that is being associated with Alexander Wennberg more and more, and the 21-year-old centerman is living up to the moniker.
“He’s great to play with,” Scott Hartnell, who has played the majority of his minutes as a Blue Jacket with Wennberg, told BlueJackets.com. “He’s very good defensively, always in the right positions. When he has the puck it just seems like the game slows down for all of us out there.
“He is always making the right play and spinning out of trouble offensively and he gets some space from the defenders.