- Kesler with a playmaker is night and day compared to him being that guy on his own line. He still looked predictable and bad offensively through 2 periods. I counted three ill-advised wristers not even counting the quality shot he took that still probably should have gone cross-crease to a wide open Higgins. I say let him smack Sedin passes at the net all year.
- Dear god Henrik is good. Like really, really good. Daniel was good too but Henrik was dissecting the defense in one pass over and over again. PLEASE SEPARATE THE TWINS. I'm convinced Henrik can set anyone up with prime chances. We were literally generating nothing until the lines were changed and that has been a theme for forever - shutdown the Twins and let the other forwards grind the game away.
- Tanev looked great logging 22 minutes. Two straight quality games in the top 4. His shot looks a lot better - it caused some of our only dangerous plays through two periods - while his passing is clearly the best we have on the backend aside from maybe Edler. This kid is a stud.
- Kassian looked awful. Gave hardly any effort on the back check which led to the hand pass goal. He simply isn't skating as hard as he needs to be, especially considering how little our bottom 6 is playing.
- We can't distribute minutes like this all season. When the bottom 6 does well, they get minutes but we need them to play well more often. Getting Burrows back will help.
- Hansen played a great game. All over the ice making smart plays. Passing well and creating for his teammates. If you don't like Hansen you suck.
- Schroeder looked pretty good. He made some nice plays and while he wasn't a force there, he didn't get beat along the boards. He made a really good diving back check to save a scoring chance. His cross ice pass to Booth was beautiful and opened up the ice like no one but the Sedins have done. I'd like to see more.
Again, SPLIT THE SEDINS!!! It makes the team so much more dynamic offensively.