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Originally Posted by Bingo
Not sure that's fair.
The top line had a different player, new goaltender, completely new defense core, different secondary players other than Backlund, different coach.
It's day most was different.
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Agree to disagree respectfully. When you rely on your core forwards to score (which they did in the regular season, and Johnny did in the playoffs), you rely on your big guns more in the playoffs. You’re not playing the fourth line as much because you need your big guys to step up. But if defences are tighter, and your guys aren’t skilled or fast enough to create opportunities, you’re in a bad position but ultimately put yourself in that position to rely on those players. Three years now they’ve been badly outplayed in their final series. Some of it was predictable and I’d say a large part of it was on the core capability. Really sucks that Tanev got hurt and Markstrom was the worst possible but the core really didn’t carry things in that last round.