Jason Strudwick

He was good.

Yeah, you know what?

It's crazy.

I think both teams should feel optimistic about their chances in Game 3, and I think it's ironic for the same reason for both teams.

If you're Anaheim, you shut down McDavid, Bouchard, and the Otis power play, and if your Otis is like, well, those three areas of the Otis haven't even got into it yet.

And then, you know, some of the plays you're looking at, you know, on the penalty kill, the orders are minus four on the power play, right?

So they've given up three on the power play.

And then a shorthand last night that, you know, McDavid misread or whatever you want to call it, throws it backwards, and then it doesn't react properly.

Could have put a stick in the pass lane, it just passes, boom, and Palin gets an easy redirection.

So...

You know, I think that those elements of the game for the Oilers are huge.

They're really important.

You know, Odell, you know, like if you're on the power play and you're not scoring, it bleeds into your five-on-five.

And as a penalty killer, I just loved it when I saw power play guys crying because that meant I was in their head and they were going to be suffering five-on-five.

So I think those are the same areas that both groups are really going to focus on heading into this next game.

Well, I think it's slightly different for each one.

I think with Bouchard, I just don't think that he's kind of emotionally committed into it.

He looks like he's hanging on the puck a little too long, a time a little too risky, and he does do that.

And he's fired up 95 points this year, but this Ducks team is really pressuring him, putting pressure, trying to make him cough it up, and it's happening.

So he's got to move that puck a little quicker.