Its unfortunately obvious...

This dude's on pace for some ridiculous numbers.

I mean, I know six points in seven games is like you can't really extrapolate that out over the whole season.

But after his game tonight, here were stats coming in to the game.

Two goals, two assists with four points in six games.

Now he's up to four goals and two assists after his two goal performance tonight.

Four goals, two assists, six points in seven games for Josh Anderson.

and i love this right i do love this but part of me thinks that this is a problem and let me know down below if you disagree with me right now but i feel like i shouldn't be looking at box scores and seeing noah dobson leading the team in shots and josh anderson leading the team in goals again i don't think it's a bad thing The depth is good, but I'm still waiting for the top guys, not named Lane Hudson or Nick Suzuki, to kick it up another notch.

Caulfield has been hit or miss so far this season.

I think he's still creating good chances, and Montreal in general is creating a lot of good chances.

Juraj Slavkovski has had his moments.

Tonight was not one of his better games.

Last game was.

It is what it is, and of course, without Ivan Demidov, without Oliver Kapanen, who again, I think we sometimes forget, has been a top six player for a large chunk of his time in Montreal, not to mention being without Mike Matheson, there is a lot going on, right? There are a lot of injuries.

This is the second night of a back-to-back.

You take what you can get, but it was also the second night of a back-to-back for Washington.

So you needed your top guys to show up.

Your top level guys, can they get points? Can they produce? Can they put you over the top? Alex Tuck showed up for Washington.

Hudson and Suzuki did for Montreal.

But what about the others? Well, Gooley, to be fair to him, of course, coming back from an injury, it is what it is.

Jack Einengstrom was a great deep pairing.

Hudson Dobson, absolutely dominant.

Gooley Carrier, on the other hand, got dominated in this game.

And I'll just bring back this game scorecard.

that just proves it not even close the worst defensive pairing in this game by a mile um but again i i i can't really hold that against ghoulie coming back from injury fine you still need to do a bit of a better job clearing out the front of the net if you ask me but if we take a look at the forward lines this is where i'm starting to have an issue right like now slavkovsky suzuki caulfield which has been our best line for years They're getting matched up against other top lines, and we're seeing this happen again, where Washington is able to sort of, not always, of course, you still generate chances, but sort of neutralize these guys at 5v5.

And then you gotta have the depth show up.