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Originally Posted by SilverKast
The Oilers play 97 and 29 a ton of minutes. LA responds by shortening their bench to avoid their 4th line getting stuck against those two and as a result they can't keep up. You need to be able to roll all your lines if you want to wear down those two. Otherwise it's just two of the top players against your top guys all game and who wears out faster.
Playing scared to lose is also a poor way to go, you need everyone contributing and playing the Oil hard. If you let them all skate around and fire the puck it doesn't end well.
I still think LA has a very slim chance to come back from this, but not if they keep jumping at their own shadow.
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If you can play either of Kopitar and Danault against them, then the rest is on you. Should be better at home with ability to control matchups