AJ Fredrickson

But then in the third period, I was like, they're down a boatload and I want to see how he reacts and how he like his effort level, what he does.

So every time he was on the ice last night in the third period, I think I basically only watched him just how he entered the zone, his time, like how he acted away from the play, that type of stuff.

I'm not going to say I'm concerned, but it was not what I was hoping to see, is what I'll say.

I was disappointed in the effort level and just kind of the things I saw.

What I've noticed over the past couple of games, too, after I've thought about it, is the up-ice rushes where...

the move that he does where he's on the left wing side cutting in and he tries to use the defender almost as a screen to do the shot.

He does that like last second adjustment, toe drag closer in shoot.

I think people are starting to figure out, or maybe there's a like better defensemen are playing against him and know, know how to block it because maybe it was a 50, 50 coin toss before for how much that gets through and actually records a shot on net.

I feel like it's maybe one in 10.

Now they are blocking that thing.

Like it's, you know, like it's just a regular, you know, softball.

I think he's going to change it up a little bit.

And maybe that's it.

Does he lay off a pass sooner?

Does he decide to just drop his shoulder and drive lower and then look to the, you know, look to the slot to, to, to create a passing opportunity or something along those lines.

But that shot has not gone through on a consistent basis.

And I, I think in a while, uh,

But just the other stuff, too.

I mean, the skating still is there, and we're seeing him do his normal edge work and his kind of body contortions, and I think that's fine.

I don't think it's a...