Stepan was one of the players that lived in the suburbs. He said him and the rest of the team joked that anyone that did played 82 away games a year because of the headache getting back into the city. He even told a story where the traffic was so bad for a playoff game he abandoned the car and ran to the arena.
I've done the commute many, many times and have friends who have done it every day for decades. Yeah, you need to leave some time for traffic or plan to get places early, but it's not difficult. Especially if you're making millions of dollars and can afford a place in a southern suburb on the train line. Metro North trains are pretty reliable and the trip from some of the nicer southern suburbs to Grand Central is 20-30 minutes and then a short walk to MSG.
He's looked quite good. Getting his feet under him and no major mistakes.
He looks like belongs and certainly belongs on this team (he's probably been their second best dman and in a few games their best dman). He's been good enough to have 3-4 points at minimum. Hopefully the points will come.
For argument's sake, let's look at the best recent draft--2015. Four years later Aho and Hintz are really the only 2nd rounders making a difference.
