I hope Slava Kozlov has something in his contract about shootouts. He’s so automatic, he deserves a big bonus at the end of the year. He’s amazing.

Ilya Kovalchuk, who has been amazing recently, still needs to take a lesson from his countryman. I think he needs to pretend he has five guys chasing him — it seems like he’s better when he’s got people hot on his heels.

Kari Lehtonen was stellar tonight. I still don’t dig his new mask, but lately he’s shown far more flashes of the brilliance we know he possesses.