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Every team goes through it.

Every player is dealing with some level of injuries.

But when you have a guy like McDavid, and he was still stellar, but he's playing the wing.

You know Drysaddle's had his issue.

Does it almost seem like there are too many obstacles for the Oilers, maybe not to win this series, but to ultimately make a deep push this year?

Absolutely.

And you know, the thing that really I find interesting is this time of year, you see certain players, you know, Vic mentions Brett Howden, scores the big goal.

And I know affectionately he's been named big game Brett because of the big goals he scored for the Vegas Golden Knights.

And this goes back to the year they won the Stanley Cup.

And I mean, sometimes we see this with role players.

They have a knack to come up in big moments.

I mean, one of the most famous ones in Canada was Fernando Pisani back with the Edmonton Oilers many moons ago at this point.

Marty Jelena.

Well, let me ask you this.

Yeah.

And I mean, it's one of those things in the playoffs.

And you're so right about the simple things that is what really helps you have success come postseason time.

And, you know, there's been a lot of discussion about Matvey Mishkov with the Philadelphia Flyers.

Now, they didn't need him to win that series against the Pens.

They moved forward, obviously.