It's not just Michkov.
Brink is playing like a top 6 forward, Poehling is having a career year, Couts is starting to look like he found the fountain of youth. Pelletier is sorta mini-Brink out there. Replacing DeLo with Hathaway allowed Shaw to play his 4th line 4-5 more minutes, resting his other three lines.
It's not a good team, but good enough to beat bad teams as long as the goaltending is average or better.
