Aidan Ganim

And I want to talk about the physicality in this series a little bit.

Well, Leon Dreisaitl has had a really, really good start since coming back from injury.

We didn't see a whole lot of that in Game 1, but Game 2, it kind of felt like the message changed, especially in the Oilers' case.

Four points, a goal, and three assists.

But his partner in crime, Connor McDavid, hasn't been able to find the score sheet in these playoffs.

I mean, Vasily Podkolzin...

three huge hits and and that last one with with a few minutes left in the first period was just absolutely a bone crusher was the exit of Radko Gudis maybe a little bit of a confidence booster for the Oilers or was it something that you know they they weren't happy with in game one and then kind of set out to do in the next one yeah it looked like there was a real effort to to you know up the physicality and I thought in game one

And while it's been a big hit to the Oilers' offense, but you've got to think about the way that Anaheim is playing against McDavid right now.

You know that that was the number one thing on the board.

It was the biggest thing that they needed to handle.

And, well, if the first guy isn't there...

Make sure there's a second right behind.

And if the second gets through, which Connor probably will, there will be a third person there.

Head coach Chris Knobloch had this to say on Connor McDavid.

Well, the power play did the opposite of what it was supposed to do last night, giving up a shorthanded goal.

This power play, I mean, obviously with the exit of Leon Dreisaitl, that's definitely a big hit.

But with him back, you may be expecting them to kind of find the form that they had midseason.

But there's always a little bit of an adjustment when guys come back into the lineup.

Zach Hyman had these comments.

Well, a lot of things went wrong yesterday, but you know what?