Ryan Strome

They're the teams that can go on a run in the playoffs.

And I think we all kind of felt Edmonton was that team.

But when you take McDavid hurt, Dreisaitl hurt, Dickinson hurt, and Henrik not even dressed.

When you take four guys out of the middle of a team's lineup, how the hell do you expect to take on the Ducks?

And the other thing I was saying, and maybe Kevin could have a thought on this, but you look at their defensemen at home, and I know we had an Olympic draft.

break but at home played all 82 games this year he didn't last year you know injuries but he played all 82 so did bouchard so did nurse connor murphy played 80 games they played a ton of hockey

And ran into a buzzsaw.

And the penalty killing was victimized by the fact that Henrik was out.

That really hurt.

Dickinson was hurt.

And the other thing is what I think McDavid said right off the top was they played fast, we didn't.

And we've been down this road before.

But Dylan Holloway, Philip Broberg is in the top 92 percentile of fastest defensemen in the NHL.

So that means he's better than that.

Yeah, McLeod, Pogo, Connor Brown, all that speed.

So injury, speed.

So part of me is saying, you know, the team was average because of those changes.

But most of me is saying, oh, they weren't average.

They just got hurt at the run.

And he made the line of Frederick and Doc go, Henrique.