Nikita Grebenkin, Noah Cates, and Bobby Brink all needed something going into Wednesday night.

Grebenkin needed a chance to create some offense. He had been in and out of the lineup sporadically to start the season, and usually skated in limited minutes when he was on the ice in a checking role that was more about keeping the puck out of trouble rather than doing something with it.

Cates and Brink needed to produce some offense again. They were separated in the lineup, and neither had scored or even registered a point since the Nov. 22 outburst of a win over the Devils.

They were all capable of better, the circumstance of Tyson Foerster's upper-body injury put all three of them on a line together, and for the first game at least, they found a spark.

Brink scored in the first period, t

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