Waiting for the reviews from those who watched the game, in particular:
Bennett--scored a real nifty goal. Bankpassed it around (forget who) to himself, walked to the net then completely confused Fleury by going high short side at point blank range. Don't remember him doing much else for the rest of the game. Good instincts.
Tangradi--Had an awesome first shift and another good shift in the third, but, in between, he was just sort of there. Was botching a bunch of setups from Neal. But Tangradi didn't do anything to be a liability and was working hard.
Crosby--I thought he looked awful rusty. Was having trouble accepting passes in the first and got the puck knocked off his stick quite often all game. IMO, his timing wasn't there. Should note some people disagree with me.
Neal--Neal seemed to just be trying to set Tangradi up all game. Otherwise, looked himself. Chemistry with Geno still obvious.
Geno-Geno looked like last year's Geno would look giving the type of effort you'd expect him to give in a scrimmage. In other words, he was MVP Geno, but not in Beast mode only because the situation didn't call for it.
Also, how'd the defense look overall? For those that watched, is this current defense personnel wise capable of making a serious run?
The Martin/Orpik pairing was better than I expected. Orpik had a strong game and so did Martin. Letang played very well. Morrow played great when paired with Letang. Niskanen, Engelland and Bortuzzo looked solid. Lovejoy made one or two good plays. Ulf's kid is not good and Despres was flat out terrible tonight.
For the second question...it's a scrimmage
Only other thing I'd add was that every member of the Cooke, Kennedy and Sutter line played awesome, particularly Sutter.
