If you click the link to the TSN article, what he's getting at is the Oilers best players are walloping the Stars best players. What's not said in the TSN article is this series is tied because the Stars depth isn't coming through to push past the top-end talent disparity.
Anyone would expect McDavid and Draisaitl to be better than and out-produce any Stars forwards, but the Stars entering the playoffs with eight 20-goal scorers made them terrifying because they'd be getting offense from the whole lineup. But they're not. Duchene, Pavelski, Marchment, and Harley are giving them absolutely nothing. Those four have combined for 62 GP, 5 goals, and 17 points (0.27 PPG) in the playoffs.
* Against the Oilers, it drops to a combined 16 GP, 1 goal, and 2 points (0.14 PPG).
Other guys are also underperforming, but these are the worst offenders. Since the Stars don't have those dominating and unstoppable superstar talents up front, they depend on the waves of offense, and they essentially have one of their three offensive lines being completely shut out and one of their two offensive d-men also unable to contribute.
If the Stars fail to advance, it will be because the depth hasn't shown up.
The top of the Oilers lineup is giving the Stars absolute fits in a fashion we haven’t seen before in this postseason, Travis Yost writes.
www.tsn.ca
* For comparison's sake, the four most productive Oilers each have 17+ points in the playoffs so far. McDavid, Draisaitl, Bouchard, and Hyman are each scoring more than the combined efforts of four guys the Stars expect to get offense from.
