Kevin Fiala picked up where he left off, as did the Panthers (for the wrong reasons), and Alex Ovechkin looked like he never left. RoryBoylen breaks down all you need to know from Day 2 of the NHL's exhibition action on Wednesday:
is bound to catch a hot streak at some point, right? That alone is reason to buy into the potential.
But he wasn’t great from start to finish a year ago either. Through the first four months of 2018-19 he had a .901 save percentage, then caught fire the rest of the way and is remembered for leading the Blue Jackets to a series sweep of theThe problem is deeper than that in Florida. The defence in front of Bobrovsky doesn’t do him any favours, finishing in the bottom-third in shots against and high danger chances against per game. Columbus was much tighter than that a year ago.
The Lightning, meantime, looked about as good as you’d expect. The tic-tac-toe plays and give-and-go’s were aplenty and they didn’t look like a team that’d been off for four months. Andrei Vasilevskiy looked solid, Anthony Cirelli dangerous, andThe Lightning will still have three games to tune up before theystart to matter. They’re playing for home-ice seeding in a round robin against Boston, Washington and Philadelphia before Round 1 of the playoffs begin.
But what can we make of that? Was it a nice hot streak, or something stickier than that? Will Fiala settle in closer to 60-65 points, or was he really breaking out as something more?
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