Coach Knoblauch delivers slap in the face to LA Kings after Oilers Game 5 win
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The Edmonton Oilers entirely overwhelmed the Los Angeles Kings in their own barn for a dominant Game 5 win, and after the game, Coach Knoblauch called out his team's clear advantage.
The Kings have begun to heavily shortening their bench their bench, a controversial decision that coach Jim Hiller has taken heat for - and now Knoblauch is touching on it.
Oilers coach Knoblauch touches on biggest advantage for Edmonton
Speaking to the media post game, Knoblauch stressed multiple times the depth of his lineup and their ability to take any matchup assigned to them.
We kind of challenged every line to bring something tonight. There's no line that we're hiding. We can have our fourth like playing against the other team's top line. We feel very confident with that. We don't have to worry about matchups, we can just roll our lines.
- Coach Knoblauch
- Coach Knoblauch
Kings reporters saw it as a slap in the face, as their coach is heavily stressing about matchups and hiding some of his own players.
For the Kings, Hiller's lineup deployment has put incredible stress on his top players. Gavrikov has played over 30 minutes a game in this series, and going up against McDavid, that can't be sustainable without fatigue.
Oilers bottom six forwards making an impact in series against LA
While the bottom six of Los Angeles' lineup fails to even get engaged in this series, the Oilers are starting to see meaningful contributions down the lineup.
Janmark scored the game winner, his second of the playoffs - after never scoring on a goalie all year.
If the Oilers continue to get these kind of contributions for the bottom of their lineup, and the Kings don't even trust half of their players on the ice, the Oilers will run away with their fourth straight first round win over LA.
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