Jesse Granger

He was shutting down Connor McDavid.

There was a point in that series where the Oilers were actively avoiding that matchup, which it's hard to believe you would ever avoid any matchup with a player as good as Connor McDavid, but that

speaks to how good William Carlson is defensively.

He is an elite skater.

He, his, his instincts for where to be defensively are as good as it gets.

He's never on the wrong side of the puck.

He can make big plays when, when you give him the chance, he obviously scored a huge goal the other night in game one.

He just does everything and then like you said it not only do you do they add his talent but it also kind of shuffles the deck and puts everyone else in a better spot.

You see the ripple effect of now Tomas hurdle and Mark Stoner on the third line and that's a tough matchup.

It allows Mitch Marner to go back to the wing.

He had been playing center and he played it well but it's also a position he hadn't played in the NHL in his entire life.

So you get him back onto the wing.

Jack Eichel is obviously manning that line up top.

It allowed

Vegas to spread the wealth a little bit more and not rely so much on because for a while there when Carlson was out they were basically loading everyone up on that top line and that line was doing well but they weren't able to roll the four lines the way that they like to the way any team likes to so yeah Carlson has been huge he's big on the penalty kill he's he helps their second power play unit hard to say enough good things about what William Carlson does for this team

Yeah, it's really hard to answer that hypothetical because Carter Hart was hurt when Bruce Cassidy was here.

I've seen people say, why didn't Bruce Cassidy play Carter Hart more?

He couldn't.

He was injured.

And when Carter Hart first came back after the loss,