Jarnkrok has no business in the top 6. Plain and simple. His ineptitude with the puck in the closing minutes cost us the game. We were already in scramble mode when he's moving up ice and then decides to turn around and skate to the corner with the puck and not clear the puck. Not sure what he was thinking but if he's the smartest player on the team, clearing the puck, even if it meant icing it would've been a better move than going deeper in to our zone and then losing possession of the puck.
Which brings me to another point, he has no business in a top 6 role because he is an offensive black hole. Not like Nystrom bad but he is not an offensively gifted player. His reaction time is still too slow to do anything productive with the puck or without it. He also gets knocked off the puck way too easily and you can't continually lose the puck like that.
Arvidsson is another one who I don't get. Fast but weak on the puck and his spacing last night was puzzling. On a few two on ones he went extremely wide and even if a puck got across to him he in no way shape or form had a chance to get a good shot off. He handles the puck like a grenade and for a skill player that's not a good thing.
Both are too small and are tweeners. I've harped on it before but Arvy, love his effort, but he has no business in the AHL while Jarnkrok should play on the fourth line and be a penalty kill specialist. Other than that, these guys don't fill any needs on this team unless we are looking for a quota of small guys with less than NHL skills.
On a good note, Rinne made some amazing saves last night.
