There has been nothing resembling a learning curve for Isaiah George through two games in the NHL.
The 20-year-old has instead walked in and looked like a veteran, playing with poise and stabilizing a back end that is missing all three players who made up its left side on opening night.
When Patrick Roy put George on the nominal top pair with Noah Dobson ahead of Thursday’s 4-2 win over the Senators in Ottawa, the belief was that “nominal” would be the operative word and Roy would likely spend the game rotating his defense pairs and leaning heavily on Dobson, Scott Mayfield and Ryan Pulock.
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