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Originally Posted by 2macinnis2
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.
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Really you need to game plan for 2 matchups based on ice time they get
But guys like MacKinnon or Crosby head to head with McD is not that bad at all