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Originally Posted by Inferno
It was much more than Markstrom having a bad series.
It's not like they completely shut the Oilers down and they just scored on the few chances they got. They completely abandoned the system that made them successful all year and got sucked into playing pond hockey. They were giving up odd man rushes like candy.
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They also abandoned their tight checking because it was obvious that series would not be officiated to the same standard as their previous one. They tried to stay out of the box, which obviously also didn’t work.