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Originally Posted by cannon7
Sutter was rolling the D pairs all season. In the Oilers series everything pretty much changed there with the Tanev injury. As such, both the Hanifin-Andersson and Zadorov-Gudbranson pairs were overused and ultimately exposed. This underscores how important Tanev was to this D corps, especially how much he carried Kylington. Even though Sutter was rolling these pairs, it doesn't mean it was a well-rounded group, since one injury threw everything in disarray.
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Yes, if you overplay Handersson and Zadbranson against the Oiler top line, eventually they will get beaten even if they play them well most of the time. Without Tanev, Kylington dropped to bottom ice time.
Speaking of selling high maybe this is the time to trade Kylington. He looked great with Tanev, but his November stats created his career season and he was pretty ordinary offensive wise outside of that month.