Mad props to the four Dmen who played the last two periods. Connauton in particular stood out to me -- he had a couple bonehead plays that luckily didn't wind up being goals, but otherwise he was good on both ends. Last week or so has been the best I've seen him play defensively. He's a lot less tentative, it seems, when he needs to make plays, and he looks like he's going all out in a way that he wasn't last year or at the start of the season.
Rychel looks like he belongs and I'll be sad if he gets sent down when some forwards get healthy. And it sucks about Cody, and I hope I don't have to watch Prout and Falk both on the ice at once at any point. I think Bodnarchuk is a more like-for-like replacement for Goloubef, or maybe someone like Kukan.