Yeah teams like that give us issues for sure. We just seem to lose a ton of battles against teams like that and they really wear us down - we seem to very rarely have any speed thru the neutral zone against teams like that as well. I agree with @TheGoodShepard1 tho it's crazy how shot everyone looks with this many games to go. I personally think it is because of Cronin's insistence on playing MoM defense.The odd thing is...i'm not overly impressed by St Louis roster. They are slow but they are big. I guess the bigger teams just cause a lot of problems for us. Feels like we should be in a better position based on some of our younger skaters and their speed
It is just way too much skating for these guys. I know other teams do it successfully but that's probably because they are better at executing it (more efficient/make better reads) and/or are in better shape. Probably mostly the former IMO.