Boucher reminds me of Kyle Wellwood. Small, weak on the puck, not terribly fast, defensively suspected, loathed by coach, absolutely lethal around the net.
Boeser played a less eventful game than his stat line suggests but he did well to clean up Horvat's garbage and to even keep his legs moving considering the circumstances of the game. Nice hard shot. Like Goldobin, I'd like to see what he can do on the powerplay.
Speaking of Goldobin...not his best outing. Looked like he was drifting around out there. Whatever magic was worked to get Baertschi chugging around and battling for pucks needs to be sprinkled on Goldobin and Boucher.
Bachman deserved a SO and was easily the game's best player. The guy has been lights out in his starts this season.
I thought Stetcher had a phenomenal game. He was all over the ice.
Sedins looked utterly gassed and seemed to be skating in quicksand for much of the game. It's possible they're just mailing it in now that the team is officially eliminated, so I won't put a lot of stock in it, but that first power play unit was woeful and the difference between the two units was stark. Willie leaning on them so hard as the game went on in the third probably cost poor Bachman his shutout.
It appears Chaput is the new Megna. I feel a bit bad for these AHL/NHL tweeners who become the focus of fan ire because our walnut of a coach cannot bring himself to stop playing them.
Feel terrible for Skille. Guy was playing well. He's been a serviceable 4th liner this year and occasionally shows glimpses of his draft pedigree. The guy is in that journeyman stage of his career where hunting down a new contract each season is of paramount importance and having his leg blown up late in a season cannot be helpful.
