Zack Smith made his coach look like a genius by scoring two goals in the first period he played after being a healthy scratch.
Is Patrick Wiercioch going to get the chance to do the same?
"Everybody seems to be on 46 (Wiercioch)," Dave Cameron said Wednesday. "He seems to be the whipping boy now. But if you look at the game, it's not just 46."
No, it's not. His mistakes are just the most obvious of late. He seems to be getting burned more. He's out of position at the worst time. Like Tuesday in Nashville, when he was sitting on the wrong bench -- the small one that is in the penalty box, serving his second minor of the night -- for all of eight seconds when the Predators scored the first of three goals in a 2:28 span to turn a 3-1 Senators lead into a 4-3 deficit.