Tue 1/14/14 6:34 AM

It sounds like Loui Eriksson will stay on the third line for a little longer. "It gives him a chance to find his confidence and his game back and everything else," coach Claude Julien said. "There's going to come a time when I'm going to have to make a decision to either leave it that way or make that move. But I think right now, it's been good and they scored that goal for us, which gave us that win, so it wasn't a bad place for him to be." He skated alongside Carl Soderberg and Ryan Spooner in his return to the lineup on Saturday, while Reilly Smith stayed on the second unit with Patrice Bergeron and Brad Marchand.