People always look to personnel during games like this. To me, this was very obviously a tactical loss. Laviolette, or someone on the coaching staff there watched the tape and drew up a solid BO defense play. That's simply something you have to deal with in tactics sports, your opponent knows what you're plays are, and you don't know their counters until you see them in game.
What's encouraging to me is that you know that Maurice and his men are going to go to the drawing board, they're going to watch the tape and draw up a play to counter what the Preds drew up before this game. Very rarely do you see back to back games like this, because usually the coach will draw up a play to solve the problem. What should be disconcerting to the Preds is that they haven't been able to get their offense going at all, really, since parts the first game, in any consistent manner. So they know what the Jets are coming at them with on paper and they've gone back to the board three or four times now and really haven't been able to come up with something. In light of that, I think the Jets should be favorites if they execute better in Game 6.
