Who would've thought that we'd blow the caps out at any point this season? The new lines of Mo's has been absolutely terrific and their last four periods have made us nine goals. Moving Eric Staal to winger on the second line and Brandon Sutter to center the first have proven extremely effective. At least in terms of getting our superstar going. Staal has been playmaking ever since he came back from that nasty injury and seems to be working better on wing than he has on center for a long time. He was involved in five of six goals last night, and it's amazing to see that we now have two scoring lines.
Ruutu - Sutter - Whitney
Staal - Cullen - Jokinen
That two high speed lines, and just imagine that first one with Cole replacing Ruutu.
Jokinen, Sutter, Ruutu and Whitney leads the team in goalscoring, and I think Sutter definitely has proven a man for the future. He has always been predicted to be a thirds line-grinder but has caught everyone by surprise and scored a bunch of goals this year as well as showing a lot of speed (ala Cole). In addition to this he's on awesome penalty killer. Certainly a future A, if not a C.
Yeahyeah, I know it's only been two games, but it's nice to see things finally showing signs of turning.