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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
The Oilers are getting more out of their players than the Flames are. McDavid and Draisaitl are out scoring the Flames bet players. Hyman is in a different stratosphere over Mangiapagne or Toffoli. He's an actual threat. Jankrock is a waste of draft picks.\ at this point. Score a ####ing goal you scrub, or at least prevent a goal. Waste of time and salary, and I was a proponent of bringing him in.
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I think most of the problems in this series were noted by Hanifin. The Flames aren’t playing their game.
Yes, their top players are out scoring our top players - but that’s because their top two players are two of the top players in the league on an individual skill set basis.
The Flames do not have a McDavid, nor a Draisaitl. The Flames will win this series playing their structured team game - which they haven’t gotten to yet.
If I were to single in on any individual Flames, I’d be looking at Markstrom, Mangiapane, and Sutter.
Darryl putting Zadorov and Gudbranson out against McDavid in a 4v4 situation was just bad - and like I mentioned, the team hasn’t gotten to it’s team game yet - and part of that is on Darryl. He’ll do better.
Mangiapane is getting sucked into taking penalties and isn’t keeping things simple. Dude just needs to get back to retrieving pucks and playing whistle to whistle. He can be better.
Markstrom is just…off. Pressure getting to him? His positioning is out of whack. It’s as if the Oilers are in his head. He can be better.
Flames will win this series as a team, and the Oilers will lose this series because all they have are individuals.