‘“I think he was on a mission to play better than he played the other night (5-2 loss Tuesday to the Seattle Kraken),” Buffalo coach Don Granato said of Thompson. “I’ve talked with him a couple times one on one in the last couple days and that’s what I got out of it. He wanted to play much better than he did the other night. And he did with urgency, and obviously he’s a dangerous guy when he’s playing with that type of urgency.”’