Kasperi Kapanen is clearly in head coach Mike Sullivan’s doghouse. His ice time is shrinking, he keeps getting demoted, and his only goal over the past 11 games was a puck that deflected in off of his skate after a great pass by Evgeni Malkin.
He is struggling right now.
Evan Rodrigues has started to see his offensive production regress back closer to his career levels (something that, quite honestly, seemed inevitable no matter how much we loved his early season performance) and has not recorded a point in 11 of his past 12 games. He has zero goals and only two assists (both in the same game, the Arizona game) during that stretch.