The coaches and players seem happy with the day-over-day growth in the compete level of the team. While this might seem like a commentary about the crew that played against the Sabres, I think it's really more a testament to the effort put out by the group in Winnipeg, including the trio of players that played in both games: Tyler Graovac, Mike Reilly, and Kurtis Gabriel. The narrative surrounding Thomas Vanek seems to have cooled to a simmer from it's rolling boil the previous day, but there is another place for hockey fans' anger to be placed (we'll get to that).