from Jon Rosen of LA Kings Insider,

On whether the series was decided by the inability to create offense or Marc-Andre Fleury’s play:

Probably all of that, to be honest with you. I thought our hockey team got better through the series. Obviously, Game 2 was different just because we were missing Muzz and Drew and Derek. Drew’s a big part of our team, and I think the guys came in and played hard. I thought we got a little bit better the first game at home, and I thought tonight was our best game. We probably created the most quality chances and just didn’t finish offensively. When you limit the other team, the amount of scoring they had, you usually give yourself a chance to win, and tonight we had some really good looks with the right people with the puck on their stick there. Fleury was really good, and they check really well. We created opportunities, but at the end of the day, you’ve got to take advantage of those opportunities, and you want to limit scoring chances, but you need to put the puck in the net to move on this time of the year, and we obviously didn’t do that enough.

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