Supportles Last of responsibility: With 19 column of the senators

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Tim Support looks tired after the fourth away game within six days. All four games have lost the Ottawa Senators, even at the Los Angeles Kings was on the weekend at 2: 4 nothing to get and nobody around the young ice hockey team from the Canadian capital is satisfied — Support is not at all. I just have to be better. I have to get more discs to the gate. I'm there for that. It's just not enough, says the 19-year-old professional from Verse of the German Press Agency, when he stands in the catacombs of the Staples Center and To explain trying as he goes in the best ice hockey league in the world.

Although he is only 20 years old in January and is still relatively fresh in his second season, Support is fully in the responsibility for the success or failure with the Senators: Yes, I see myself completely. Of course, I'm not The only one, but I see me there. I play almost 20 minutes every night, just have to be better.

with grubber and silk in Driest's shadow

Hockey professionals from Germany as a central component of an NHL team, as a supporting support? What was rather unthinkable a few years ago is now reality. Leon Driest was elected 2020 the first German to the most valuable player of the league. With already 20 goals, the (attacker) of the Edmonton Oilers plays a superior season again. National Tor wart Philipp Grubber has no top team at the new team of the Seattle Kraken, but is recognized by one of the best goalies in the professional ice hockey. In Detroit, the Red Wings are looking forward to the achievements of Moritz Safer, who plays a bear strong debut season with its only 20 years and has already prepared a dazing gates as a defender.

Shuttle stands after 19 playing this season at its own goal and seven templates, at the same time in the past season he had five goals and a template less. Already there were most observers agree: Support is not wrongly compared with Driest and has the stuff to become an absolute star in the league. Speed, security with the puck, quality of passports, creativity — the blond button trained in Krefeld and Mannheim scores in many categories.

In addition, his visible development comes. He's a self-confident. Last year you realized that he has a newcomer. But now he plays a lot of thoughtful, much more mature. The gates and points will also come, says ex-national coach Marco Storm, who as co-coach of the Kings has a very special look at Support. Also, for the scouts on the grandstand in the Staples Center is between two handles in the mug with popcorn completely attorn that support is much more robust work. He is a very good player, says an observer from Vancouver. Nobody contradicts.

America feels like the whole world

How much bigger that is all than what Support made from his short time in the DEL for the Eagle Mannheim, however, the teenager does not see. One plays 82 games every year and travels around the world — so America, but that feels like the whole world — sometimes you play back to back. You just have to be ready every day, he says. When you sleep a second, the thing is in the back of the gate. You always have to be ready to focus, no matter how young or old man is. You always have to show his best.

At third place, the Senators Shuttle have selected the draft, from Germany, only Driest the Oilers seven years ago was worth such a high commitment. But during the Cologne first time in the second-class AHL experience should collect, support is in the middle of the right. And now has so much confidence of his coach DJ Smith, that he bids him in the past three games as a center of the first storm row. I feel good, games also good, I have become a lot better. We play well with the slice behind, there are good construction passports, says Support about himself. But as I said, I'm there to be offensive To create. I look very well in the responsibility and what we can deliver as a team right now is not enough.