Rick Stevens

In the four games, he had five goals, including, as I said, his 49th goal of the season, two assists, seven points, perhaps more importantly, three game-winning goals this week.

Wow.

He was on a two-point-a-game pace, eight points in four games, three goals and five assists.

That gives him the third star.

Ivan Dmitrov had a really good week.

One goal, four assists, five points.

He was a plus three and averaged about 15 minutes a game.

Yeah, they have been surging, as the title of our podcast says.

Yeah, they're playing pretty well.

They're, I think they've won seven of their last 10, something like that.

So this strength of middle of the road, 16th is middle of the road as far as strength of schedule.

But these most difficult opponents are all either playoff teams or playoff adjacent kind of teams being, as you said, Tampa Bay, Columbus, the Islanders and the Flyers.

That's right.

It was announced on Tuesday that Alex Carrier would be out two to four weeks with an upper body injury.

So Engstrom came up, although oddly he didn't play at all.

And not yet.

We don't know yet.

No announcements for Saturday night's lineup, so we don't know just yet if he'll be in the lineup or not.

He's had a couple of call-ups.

He's played 11 games so far with the Canadians and hasn't looked out of place at all.