Could Oskar Steen be a dark horse forward candidate for Bruins this season?
It’s very exciting for me. I’m looking forward to the season,” said Steen. “I look up to a guy like Karson Kuhlman who was here [at development camp] last year and now he’s played in a Stanley Cup Final after having a really good season. He’s a really good guy and I look up to how he did it [last season]. Signing for the Bruins was very big for me. I’ll get there in September [for training camp] and do my best.
“His development has gone exactly how we’d hoped," said Bruins Coordinator of Player Development Jamie Langenbrunner. "To say the transformation from a little boy a couple of years ago to a man now. The game this year was very good in that league he was top-10 in scoring. I think his competitiveness and his willingness to get inside on people is going to translate even better over here [in North America] than it did on the big sheet over there."
One of things that stands out about Steen beyond his scoring ability is the hard-nosed way he plays the game, as attested by his 49 penalty minutes logged in 46 games last season. The 5-foot-11, 181-pounder was nearly suspended for the Gold Medal game in the 2018 World Junior tournament when he slashed Kailer Yamomoto of Team USA at the very end of a win for Team Sweden, and clearly plays with an edge that little guys tend to need at the pro hockey level.
. He's a solid kid, if he can bring Marchand-style sturdiness, which remains to be seen, he might be okay. The other thing is I really don't like the Ekholm deal- wrong thread probably- but if the Bruins use their value guys to get Ekholm then we almost surely are not getting a scoring winger too. Now if getting a scoring wing who is not a rental means Steen is part of the conversation, I guess that is a deal you have to make, but I would like to keep Steen and see where he ends up.
