In preseason showings, Aleksei Kolosov and Carson Bjarnason show promise along with some remaining bits of rawness.
Through an immediately strange set of circumstances, last night’s game up in Montreal saw Aleksei Kolosov getting in for his second game of NHL preseason action, and working towards finding a bit more stability in his game, as things continue to ramp up.
Kolosov’s first bit of action in the preseason on Sunday was a bit of a mixed bag — he allowed two goals on the 17 shots he faced, and while one of them came after he was a bit hung out to try on a poorly played two-on-one by Noah Juulsen, the other saw his lateral quickness, which was working quite well elsewhere in the game, exploited as he was pulled to the left too quickly and too far out of position on an initial shot and then beat on the subsequent rebound — but last night saw him generally continuing to settle in.