Andreas Johnsson can’t help but smile when he hears himself say it.



After a crawling start to the season with just three points in his first 18 games, the 24-year-old winger has since come on strong including five points in his last two games, a while playing on the fourth line. Johnsson is now fourth on the team in 5-on-5 points per 60 minutes.



So what’s he doing differently?



“Before I used to eat pasta before the game,” he said. “Now I just eat a snack, like just peanut butter and jelly sandwich.”



His grin extends even wider to his sharp, blonde hair jutting out from the side of his head. There are times that Johnsson exudes such a boyish, wide-eyed wonder that his choice of pregame meal makes sense.



But that boyish charm discounts the series of slow starts Johnsson has had throughout his professional hockey career. He is not, of course, a boy wandering through his hockey career, but a young man who has...