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- The skaters all looked like the Ghost of Glen Gulutzan was still haunting them

- Smith was solid, but he needs to get that fourth goal.

- That power play. Absolutely embarassing. At this point maybe it's time to completely change the units around. Like, completely completely. Like, Monahan-Neal-Lindholm-Brodie-Giordano and Gaudreau-Tkachuk-Backlund-Czarnik-Hanifin.

- Czarnik looks like a good signing. Seems to be more comfortable at the half-wall than Lindholm, who might have too much skill overlap with Tkachuk to be playing on the same unit.

- Valimaki - Stone were absolutely awful. I really hope that's not what we can look forward to this year, because at the very least I was comfortable with Kulak's consistent and solid play last year and was looking forward to Andersson unseating Stone.

- Jankowski and Frolik were also awful.

- Bennett's career is over. The flashy instincts have been successfully coached out of him and we're left with a cookie cutter fourth liner. Sorry, but he was one of our best zone entry guys in his rookie year and the need to get guys dumping pucks and making "the right play" is how you ruin a player. I also don't see him ever working as a left winger, his game is just not suited to the wing no matter how physical he is. We need him dicing through bodies with his dynamic skill and speed. Having him play wings just makes him stationary on the breakout, especially since he doesn't like to leak out like a typical winger.