With a fully formed top-six, a group of young stars getting better and another year in Bob Boughner’s system, that should be the dominant narrative heading into Saturday night.
Instead, most of the talk will be about the head-scratching decision to send Henrik Borgstrom to Springfield (AHL). Maybe this shouldn’t come as a surprise, because Borgstrom spent most of his time with the Panthers at the end of March and April in the press box rather than on the ice, where he would have perhaps given the Cats the extra spark needed to pick up that elusive point.