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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
They did.
Scoring chances were 39-19.
High Danger was 19-7.
But Flames let the Oilers stars build confidence in the comeback and it carried through the series. Flames also adjusted to try to stop the oilers stars and all it did was take them off their own game.
Of course the difference here is the Flames didn’t have a Mackinnon or a Makar. But unless the Avs get better goaltending it might not matter.
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I think the Flames adjusted too late. I hate the idea of playing your top line vs McDavid. You need your best defensive players out vs McDavid… he can be slowed down and for the Flames when they finally adjusted and played Backlund or occasionally Jarnkrok against him, he wasn’t dominating play as much. The Flames probably should have won games 4 and 5. Playing the top line vs McDavid is what leads to this feeling of teams trading haymakers because it allows their best guys to go unchallenged defensively, which is exactly the game the Oilers want.
The Kings did it right, they just didn’t have the guns to take advantage when they could get chances.