‘”Throughout the whole year, we’ve had our ups and downs for sure, but we’re hitting our stride at the right time,” Leopold said after an off-ice stretch in MTS Centre. “You look at it a couple weeks ago, I think everybody counted us out. Now we’ve got a huge four-point game against Winnipeg. It’s a good challenge for us. We’ve said ‘what have we got to lose’ the last month or so, and that kind of turned our game around.”‘