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He and Pacioretty seem to work well together, which is good because I find Danault to be completely void of chemistry with anyone else. Lines I'd go with: Galchenyuk - Drouin - Gallagher Pacioretty - Danault - Shaw Byron - Plekanec - Lehkonen Hudon - McCarron - Mitchell I know, call me crazy for putting a 4th liner on the top line, but it just seems like that kid can put the puck in the net when given the opportunity, I dunno.

Wasn't a guess. On his goal Danault was playing centre and Galchenyuk has taken all of 4 PP faceoffs all year (and lost all 4, likely only took them because the centre was kicked out).

Ive said this before... Philipp Danault had 40 points in his first full season in the NHL. He'll never be a number 1 centre, but maybe, just maybe he becomes a 50-55 point guy who can be our number 2. He had a hell of a night.

You would think that the incentive to go to the net would be plenty high now.

You called it. Pavelec looks shaky as hell...shoot from everywhere might actually be a good idea tonight.

Pavelec is hot garbage. I told my buddy before the game, when I saw Pavelec was in net, that if they don't score at least 3 this game I will give up on the season.

It does look like Danault is the new Desharnais: good with Patches, offensively useless without him. So I tend to disagree with Commandant that he's a legit top-6er; rather he is a top-6 C when paired with Pacioretty. Otherwise he's a big hunk of nothin'. But, chemistry is chemistry - I'll take it. And I agree with Stogey that the treatment of Galy is moving beyond reason. Something is going on there beyond what we can see on the ice. When a guy who lacks confidence starts scoring you usually let him build on that momentum rather than keep him under 10 minutes of ice and stuck on the 4th line. CJ really seems to want him as a 4th liner, period.

I'm just saying he's a bottom 6 forward without Patches. With Patches, he mutates into a more offensively productive player than that.