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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
Have you missed the part where I have quite clearly articulated why I believe they lost the series?
The Avs top players, and top line dominated the Flames top line.
Quite obviously that's where the series was lost.
As usual I don't know what you are on about.
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No offense but I think that is a brutal oversimplification. The reason the Flames were the heavy favorite was not because our first line was expected to outperform, or I’d argue even keep up with the Avs first line. The advantage the Flames have is a much deeper lineup with a significantly better back end. There’s really no aspect to any of these matchups the Flames won. The Avs D was better than the Flames. Guys like Ian Cole and Zadorov looked like Stalwarts. Barrie was error proof it seemed. Depth? Guys like friggin JT Compher, Nieto, Wilson, even Soderberg ... honestly totally average players on any planet, were somehow unstoppable and getting chances all over the place. They were all basically on fire NBA Jam style.
The Avs first line probably was good enough to win this series by themselves, but not this convincingly and not this fast. That’s a close 6-7 game series. When you’re dominated and out in 5, it’s way way more than 3 players on their team and 3 on ours.