Johnny Lazarus

Your top four scorers are not Sam Reinhardt, Carter Verhege.

Your top four scorers are Marshawn, Lindell, Mackie Samistevich, and Seth Jones.

Sam Reinhardt only has four points.

Carter Verhege has three points.

Eckblad has three points.

Sam Bennett has two points.

So the guys you're expecting to contribute and to kind of mitigate the losses of the Barkovs and the Kachuks, they need to find their footing a little bit more because you can't – I mean, granted, we've been waiting for guys like Lindell and Samistewicz to take that next step.

to turn that corner.

So maybe they're doing that now, and if all the other guys start to catch up, then everything will start to fall into place for the Panthers.

But right now, a little disjointed.

No, Bennett, I mean, the first couple of games, I thought he hit his shot overs when we were kind of tracking that for, you know, reasons of... Yeah.

Because we like to lose money.

But, no, that's the thing.

Like, that second line, like, that's the one.

Because, like, wherever Marshand is gone, that has ignited that group.

Like at the beginning of the season, it was Marchand with Bennett and Verhege.

Now it's Marchand back with Lundell and Luster-Reinan.

But it's that Bennett line, if Marchand's not on it, whether it's Reinhardt there, Verhege, or Rodriguez, whoever they're putting up, Sam Miskevich is getting that time in the top six now.

But they need to get that guy going because, as we know, and as we saw in the playoffs, when Sam Bennett is firing on all cylinders, it is really good for the Panthers.

They've scored 20 goals in those four games.