Definitely. Bottom 6 production will make/break our playoff chances. They need more games like this.
Absolutely.
I hope they can keep it up, this was actually a pretty decent game for both the 3rd and 4th liners. They get a lot of **** every game, but this one was decent, I don't think you can really put anything poorly on them tonight.
Tootoo had really good passing tonight, every play he made was fairly crisp. Ruutu made a sweet pass to Gionta to break in on that 1 on goalie, but Gionta fubar'ed it.
Kalinin made a good play to deflect that pass by the Detroit D, ended up going straight to Yayo and then Sergey picked up JJ's rebound. Plus the defensive block and clear to Gionta at the end game.
It was a pretty solid defensive effort from those two lines, plus chipping in the offense tonight. If we have more games like this...there should be less complaining all around here.
.........if only Yayo would bury some of those freakin up front plays....at least Kalinin will put it away with authority.