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Facing elimination, coach opts to 'put the game in our two best players' hands' EDMONTON -- With Connor McDavid not fully healthy and the Edmonton Oilers facing elimination, Kris Knoblauch is left wit.
Facing elimination, coach opts to 'put the game in our two best players' hands' EDMONTON -- With Connor McDavid not fully healthy and the Edmonton Oilers facing elimination, Kris Knoblauch is left with little choice but to go with his nuclear option in the Western Conference First Round against the Anaheim Ducks. Playing Leon Draisaitl on the top line with McDavid, instead of centering the second line as usual, is a 5-on-5 tactic the Oilers coach employed for the first time in this series on the way to a 4-1 win in Game 5 at Rogers Place on Tuesday. And it's likely not the last time Knoblauch
