I know he had 11 goals [as a freshman], but 10 of them were on the power play. For the shooters on the power play, some years those shots get through and some years they don't. He doesn't have to be a power-play quarterback to make our team.

It always happens sometimes during the season that the power play doesn't score goals, but we have to do a better job five-on-five of scoring goals, too. It's not always on the power play and penalty kill. We play a lot of five-on-five hockey out there, too. Hopefully, the power play gets confident and gets going again. That's what we need in this last stretch.

We didn't really get any power-play goals where we set up the puck and worked it the way we wanted. Still it was good to get five goals.

Did we expect him to be on our No. 1 power-play unit at this stage of the season? Maybe, but only as an interim thing or if we needed a spark or whatever. Certainly he's secured himself as an offensive player on our team.

When you have a five-minute power play and you don't get a shot on goal, that deflates you.

We didn't get our game going all night. We had a couple goals on the (power play), but five-on-five, we didn't play the way we can.