Win the margins are this slim it just comes down to execution. Look at both their goals last night. Elite/skilled plays. We were absolutely buzzing in the first period. That felt every bit of a 3 goal period if we could just fucking execute around the net and couldn't do it. Same in the 2nd period of game 3. Frustrating as hell. Those are plays we made every game we won in the Avs series where we were also matching up against 2 of the top 5 players in the league. And nobody is making those plays for us this time. We all said (whether in this thread or other conversations) there is zero chance Miko continues this heater and rest of our players have to step up and nobody has. Given expectations, I think to a man our D has outperformed what I expected of them the entire playoffs? Who has done that from our forward group. I would say Miko, Grandlund, Hintz (i.e., top line most of the playoffs) have all had a good playoffs to date (but not much this series). Maybe even put Seguin in there considering he was coming off a long term injury so adjusting expectations for that. And I think our 4th line has been fine. But Marchment/Benn/Duchene/Robo/Johnston have all had a really bad run simultaneously and it's killed us.