He's been the best defenseman since he's returned. Seems to have helped settle down everyone on the back end. Defensively he's looked a little tentative in board battles but looked a lot more aggressive the two games before today, unfortunately I missed today's game.
He was healthy scratched between February 19th and March 10th, then healthy scratched again the next game and has been in and out of the lineup all season, he also has no points in his past 13 games which dates back to December 22nd. Not sure you can really say he played much of a part in them getting back into a playoff position at all.
He started off strong enough, 15 points in 21 games, then nothing.OK, I wasn't aware of that. I looked at his point totals and I thought I remembered him scoring a little recently. So much for my memory.
AHL is a bit odd because the divisions are unbalanced. So:
2-1What’s gotten into this lad recently?Nikkanen with a short handed goal, guy's on fire
Henry Ford may have instituted the five-day work week like an absolute wienie, but at least he’s contributing to the Moose’s playoff push.
Honestly it was weird that his pointless streak went as long as it did. He wasn't creating chances non-stop or anything but he had enough that 35 games was incredibly unlucky. Now he's in a lucky stretch, but he's playing well.
