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Originally Posted by GordonBlue
** in the regular season.
They seemed to not have a higher gear for the playoffs.
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Ask the Panthers if regular season recipe guarantees playoff success. In the regular season you are playing different teams every night that aren't doing a lot of preparation specifically for your team. In the playoffs teams are totally focussed on taking away what their opponent does well. It's a lot easier to reduce the effectiveness of slow players than it is to slow down fast players. Flames had no answer for the speed of the Oilers but the Oilers below average blue line had all the answers for Toffoli and Tkachuk.