Kris Letang and Evgeni Malkin combined for 17 shots in the 4.5 period game last night. Letang was all over the ice, I swear I even saw him pass the puck around the boards and then skate to the other side of the rink and accept his own pass. If he could only stay healthy, he and Erik Karlsson would have a real battle for the d-man scoring title one day.

I get the sense that Jarome Iginla's decline has started. Stupid to say, given that he has 10 points in nine games. But he's losing puck battles he would normally win, and he's lost a step. Soon he'll be 36 (July) and if he doesn't re-sign with Pittsburgh than I wonder if he'll get 65 points again.

Besides Daniel Alfredsson and (of course) Craig Anderson, the most impressive Senator to me was Jean-Gabriel Pageau. He has six points in

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