I'm hearing this "effort was there" excuse and find it comical. There was a very uneven effort as a team from period to period. Heck shift to shift. Player wise there were some guys who caught up on their sleep. Yes they picked it up in the third a bit but LA had long since quit pushing forward and just gone into stifle mode. I'm hearing a team that gives consistent effort but can't execute. Not the team I'm seeing on the ice.
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