Jake Virtanen is so frustrating. Yes, he was awful last night taking those careless penalties that could have cost us the game. He offered nothing in terms of offense.
Yet, he also did throw some hard hits last night, and he drew a penalty and had Ottawa's #1 goalie strain his groin trying to trip Virtanen. So he did influence the game in a good way too. He's just so inconsistent.
On a positive note, I was thinking of our position and how we're trying to catch up to the Habs. It seems entirely possible, at least in my head. Even if we just win 3 of the 5 games that we have in hand on them, then we just have to earn one more victory than they do in our same amount of other games to be played. Given the downward trend that they've been on - it doesn't seem out of reach to me.