Since I defended his game against Winnipeg, I'll drop in and say that his first period against Ottawa was legit awful. There weren't the egregious mistakes like in the WPG game, but he and Staal got pinned on every shift and he couldn't move the puck up the ice to save his life (what I commended him for in the WPG game).
Periods two and three were much better though and while he didn't have any real standout plays it was a solid performance from him and what would amount to a great performance from most defencemen, with accurate and well timed passes out of the defensive zone and jumping into the offence at the right times even getting one of our best 5v5 scoring chances of the game. I especially enjoyed the shift where he and Fox dominated in the offensive zone following the expired PP - shades of the Buffalo game last year when ADA and Shatty were paired and ran a 5v5 powerplay the entire game.
He did have one or two passes picked off in the offensive zone, but those are the kind of mistakes that come with the territory if you want to create scoring chances.