Honestly LA shouldn’t worry about Drais and McDavid
It sounds counter intuitive but these guys are going to score 3-4 goals / set up every playoff game when they are playing their style and 25 mins a night
The issue actually becomes when teams start trying to stop them . They play passive , overthink positioning , etc and their offence dries up
This is still the biggest issue the Flames had/bad adjustment they made after the 9-6 G1. Instead of just saying our top line is going to outscore your team and we don’t care if we win 7-5 every game , Sutter came out and complained that you can’t win playing that type of hockey (even though we just won G1) and we played pretty timid the rest of the series
LA should just go out and continue to score on this terrible D and Goalie
You might loose a few 6-4 games this series, but I believe you will win more then you loose
Now if you sit back and try to win 3-2 you get in more trouble because Drais and McD are going to get theirs either way unless you have a Barkov who can shut them down (and Kopitar is too old now to play that role for 25 mins a night in a long series )
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