Doug Weight seemingly had an easy roster decision to make among his forwards on Saturday. Cal Clutterbuck had a minor hip issue, suffered in the ugly loss in Columbus on Friday. Weight had Josh Ho-Sang waiting in the wings and a line of Anthony Beauvillier, Brock Nelson and Ho-Sang he’d put together early in training camp that was waiting to be reunited.
Weight went a different way, however. He put Casey Cizikas between Beauvillier and Ho-Sang and put Nelson with presumptive fourth-liners Nikolay Kulemin and Jason Chimera.
And the coach got what he was looking for. Cizikas worked well with the talented kids, assisting on Beauvillier’s goal in the third while contributing a shorthanded goal and the empty-net clincher in a 6-3 win.