I'm happy that the injury to Vilardi wasn't worse. Still not great, but I'll take it over a Dach situation.
Not happy at all with Appleton being looked at as a guy to play on the 1st line. TBH, I haven't even liked his play on the 3rd, so moving him to the 1st is dissapointing to me. I agree with some others who suggested moving Kupari there and bringing up Gus for 4C.
I'm also not a huge fan of moving Perfetti over to wing after 4 games. Especially since his metrics have been very good (have they not?). My eye test watching him makes me feel like he's handling the defensive end, and I've seen him make some amazing setups on offense. If even 2 of those setups are buried (and they easily could have), is it a conversation? If it's a temporary thing, maybe it will spark something because the whole team needs to start scoring, but I'm not seeing Perfetti at centre being a reason this team isn't scoring. If it works, great, but sooner or later we need Perfetti (or Vilardi) at centre IMO as a long term option.
I don't think it's a surprise, but IMO a bigger issue currently is that Schmidt and Pionk are not providing 11.825 million in value atm. (Helle isn't either at this point, but IMO Helle has earned a massive amount of rope).