Ryan Rishaug

I think the fact that he played 24 minutes and skated like

see him from Connor McDavid because straight ahead speed seems to be there as acceleration is getting there we're not seeing that crazy agility left to right his hard cuts we're not seeing that yet

So it tells me he's not close to 100% yet because he doesn't have that all-world agility.

But he's getting better, Bob, in series, and that's a huge break for the Oilers.

Evan Bouchard, of the three Oiler players at the top of the food chain, Dreisaitl, McDavid, and Bouchard, the one who deserved the most criticism by a stellar mile through the first four games of the series was Evan Bouchard.

He wasn't even close to where he needed to be.

and he found it in one game and was exceptionally good.

Like the highest high end of his game was there all the way around, and it was really good.

So that is really big for the group.

The fact that McDavid's getting healthier, the fact that Bouchard found it, the fact that Dreisaitl bangs in a couple, the power plays waking up, like there are a lot of reasons to think that this Euler group has it

going in the right direction, that they're coming around.

But this is also the same oiler group that could not find its high-end game for any more than two or three days at a time during the regular season, Bob.

100%.

That's an issue.

It's an issue.

And I'll say this.

I think that I get they played a lot of hockey and I get that the regular season could be monotonous, as Connor had said.

But I think it's a little bit risky to just think you can do whatever you want during the regular season and flip a switch in the playoffs over and over and over again.

Sometimes you run out of luck.

And that's what they have been playing.