from Mark Spector of Sportsnet,

Play better. Play smarter.

It’s as simple as that.

On a night where the Oilers didn’t score a five-on-five goal, where Leon Draisaitl’s line got very little done, where Stuart Skinner was pulled — again, where the Oilers took seven minor penalties, the solutions aren’t hard to pinpoint with a must-win Game 6 set for Mother’s Day in Edmonton.

Even the opposition could sense that the Oilers weren’t going to be the better team in Game 5.

“They didn’t have the same jump they had in Game 4 … and I think our players sensed it,” Vegas head coach Bruce Cassidy said after the game. “They just didn't have the same drive and intensity they had up there. The physicality that they showed in Game 4 wasn't quite as evident.

“That's how our feeling was on the bench, that we can grab hold of this because they weren't dominating or pushing us out of the game.”

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