On Jake Gardiner’s recent play:
Not related to Rielly: I haven’t run the full numbers on it yet, but he’s almost always been better in the second half of seasons than the first half. I kind of mentioned it a few weeks ago — is he going to do this thing again where he doesn’t look good for the first half and everyone gets on him, and in the second half, he’s lights-out? He’s kind of there right now.
The other thing is they’ve decided to basically throw all the ice time his way because they have so many kids on defense right now.