When, and even before, to an extent, Scott Hartnell was traded to Columbus over the offseason, the question of who would play the top-line wing alongside Claude Giroux and Jake Voracek arose.
Head coach Craig Berube went with Brayden Schenn in that spot to start the season, but that failed experiment lasted all of about five periods before Berube went back to a hunch from last season that worked well.
Guess what?
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That hunch – Michael Raffl – is working well again.
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