I joked in the last recap that Pierre Engvall would be blamed for the team’s performance last night, but we’ll never know if he would’ve been healthy scratched. Instead, the team announced that Engvall is day to day and so Oliver Wahlstrom slotted into the top line for him.
Lane Lambert got the line blender out to start, mixing everyone up yet again and seemingly just making four bad lines.
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First Period
It was a goalie show early on, with Connor Hellebuyck and Ilya Sorokin both being called on to make saves early on.