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Originally Posted by GioforPM
Yeah, I acknowledged the zone starts argument.
I think, though, the main point is that Peters has to be a lot more careful about who the Monahan line plays against. It's fine if it's a top line that they can dominate offensively. But the Avs, for example, had a top player who was miles ahead of the rest, and the top line just wasn't competing against that. And Backlund's line had trouble too, but that's a lesser point...
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I actually think this is one of the most significant points in how Colorado won that series. If Backlund's line were able to establish the same game they played VERY effectively against MacKinnon's line in the three regular season games, the Flames should at worst have made it to game seven. How often does a team's entire top-six simultaneously go into the tank?