LOS ANGELES — Brayden Schenn can list off an NHL roster’s worth of players who helped him along when he was still figuring it all out. Scott Hartnell and Claude Giroux and Wayne Simmonds in Philadelphia; Alex Steen and Paul Stastny and Ryan O’Reilly and St. Louis; and of course, his brother Luke; on and on and on.
“It’s one of those things, I’ve been fortunate to play with a lot of great people in this game,” Schenn told The Post in the visitor’s dressing room after the Islanders’ win over the Kings on Thursday night. “You try and learn a lot from them.”
Schenn taking Victor Eklund under his wing is his way of paying it forward. The accumulation of lessons learned across an NHL career that started a couple months after Eklund’s third birthday is making its way to the young Swede faster than the Islanders could have ever hoped.
Thursday’s match was Eklund’s fourth straight with a goal, the longest streak for an Islanders rookie since Anthony Beauvillier in 2018, per team statistician Eric Hornick. Schenn — who’s centered Eklund and Emil Heineman on a second line that ought to stay together even once the Islanders get Mathew Barzal and Jean-Gabriel Pageau back in their lineup — has assisted six of Eklund’s seven goals so far this season.
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