Kaapo Kakko was back in the lineup on Friday after missing the last two games before the break with a bruised lower left leg. With the 18-year-old back in his regular spot on the right wing of the third line Brett Howden, who’d filled in for him there, dropped back to the fourth line. Except with one change: Howden was the fourth line right wing, rather than the fourth line center.
And that was OK with him.
“I guess every forward's played every position growing up,’’ Howden said. “I played wing once last year, with (Kevin Hayes) for one period.