On Ilya Samsonov’s first-star performance/shutout:
Perfect. He was excellent from start to finish. He was good early in the game when they were shooting the puck from everywhere on the sides. He was great there. He was obviously great on the few high-end chances that they had.
It is just another building block for him. He looks as confident as ever.
On Samsonov fighting his way back from rock bottom:
Credit to him, right? He put in the work. Virtually everyone, I am sure, had counted him out and written him off.