Jarvis 'Ready To Battle' In Year Two

RALEIGH, NC. -Seth Jarvis' rookie season ended with a concussion and

"I took a little over a week off, I had to do nothing," the now 20-year-old reflected on one of the opening days of the team's Training Camp. "I don't like to take time off in the offseason, I feel like I always have to be doing something. The longest I've taken in my playing career is about a weekend off. But I went back to the gym after a couple days and I couldn't do anything. The music was going and it was just too much for me. I couldn't be in there."
Sharing that it eventually took between two and three weeks until he could get back into the normal swing of life, he looks back on the incident as a good takeaway from his first go-around in the league.
"Everything can change in an instant. One night I'm in the lineup, the next I'm not. The one shift it's going great and the next I'm knocked out on the ice. I learned that you just have to be ready for anything. You can't get too comfortable."
But with that now behind him it's on to his sophomore season and the 2020 first round selection is adamant that nothing will change about his game.

This time last year Jarvis was coming off of an attention-grabbing showing in the Prospect Showcase, skating with the second group to start the big club's Training Camp. The meteoric rise continued though and not only did he impress the coaching staff and the media, but his new teammates as well - including those that have been well traveled.
"We only had four preseason games but you noticed him right away. And I didn't know a whole lot about him," Derek Stepan looked back with. "When the year started he was watching some games and he kind of just developed from there. As the season went on, he progressed and progressed."
Stepan and Jarvis developed a relationship after the veteran forward did his best to take the youngster under his wing during last year's camp. The two would then go on to play together as linemates for Jarvis' first few games. But within a span of 365 days Stepan says he's gone from picking on him for being a rookie, to now picking on him because he's a superstar.
"The way I look at him hasn't changed. He's still Jarvy, the kid, but I think the task in front of him should be fun for him and I bet he's looking forward to it," Stepan continued.
That task?
Finding a way to top his first year, which concluded with 40 points in 68 regular season games, in addition to eight points in 14 playoff contests.
Finding a way to be even better sounds like a tall order, but the messaging now from Stepan to Jarvis is that he can't treat it as if there's pressure on him.
"He can't think that way. There's no pressure. Every day he just has to come in here and work as hard as he did last year, maybe even a little bit more. He'll have to continue to get better every day," Stepan, entering his 13th pro season, furthered. "It's like a firecracker. If you put it in the palm of your hand and it goes off, it won't hurt as bad. But as soon as you close your hand on it and internalize it, that pressure will be very hard to handle. There will be bumps in the road, there always is in anybody's career, but there's going to be high moments, too. He just has to keep learning how to handle them. He's young, but he's ready for it."

Rod Brind'Amour feels the same way and says that the key for Jarvis is to not rest on the laurels of his first season.
"He's another young kid who we want to keep getting better. He showed really well in the second half of the year and in the playoffs, but he's got to keep growing," the Canes head coach remarked. "He's got to take that next step. He's no different from any of the other young players though. You can't just sit there and be happy with where you're at, the younger guys have more room to grow."
And it appears that Jarvis has taken that communication to heart.
"I want to continue what I did in the playoffs, or even the last 25 games of the year. That was some really good hockey that I was playing and if I can continue to build on that, I'll be in for a good season," the Winnipeg, Manitoba-born product smiled. "I want to be a star in this league and on this team. I want to help our team win. That's my main goal. I want to help contribute to wins and be someone that not only the coaches, but everyone on the team can continue to count on."
"The last thing that I want to think is that I have a job. I'm still trying to stay in that "I don't know where I'll be" mode. I could go to Chicago for all I know. I just want to be prepared to come in here and earn everything that I have. I don't want Roddy to toss me anything just because I had a good playoffs, or he feels good about me, I want to earn it. I want to battle for it with other guys. That's what I came here to do, to battle."
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