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So who's going to be the biggest X factor, Matthew, or what is going to be the biggest X factor
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I mean, they could go different ways. I'm still going to say I'm going to go and say Dakota Joshua again here
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because, I mean, he was an X factor in one game. I mean, I don't know if he was really noticeable apart from that
0:18
I mean, he was good. He had some good chances. Set up, helped set up the Lindholm goal in overtime
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That third line was noticeable, but I think they need to be more noticeable in this series
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So I'm going to say that that line is going to be an X factor along with Joshua
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because I don't know if the Oilers have a guy that can match what Joshua can bring
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Yeah, they have Evander Kane. Yeah, they have Corey Perry, who's been a thorn in the Canucks side in the past
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He's not the Corey Perry of old, though. I feel like Joshua could be a guy that could maybe draw some penalties
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that the Oilers would start taking, maybe frustrate a few of the guys
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And that's the same thing with Hoaglander. So I think the X factor is those depth pieces that could maybe frustrate
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their offensive stars and maybe get under the skin of McDavid, which he has shown in the past that he can be
1:09
Guys can get under his skin and kind of gets off the game a bit
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So I think that's going to be the key in this series. So that would be an X factor there
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Yeah, and he's a high energy guy that the Canucks are going to kind of rally behind that kind of energy
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So yeah, if he has a good game, the Canucks are going to have a good game
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Jacob, who's the X factor for Edmonton, or what is the X factor
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You know, it's probably going to be Jack Campbell. No. So the low-hanging fruit is always simply it's
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Connor McDavid early on, dry-acidal. But we'll tie that into who and what combines for McDavid, dry-acidal Hyman
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and the power play. All of it comes together for that combined strength of the three of them
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that triad that creates the raw goal scoring that is the X factor talent
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in the Edmonton Oilers. All of that has to synergize to come together and just pull everything up
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and bring all of them together to win. That is the biggest thing that they have that is going to cause them to just
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go over the hump. So I'm not saying that they're going to keep running at 50%
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but they could still easily keep running at 30% because they've been doing that
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since last year. And that's something that they can absolutely still keep running at
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Even if they dip off a little bit, the power play still remaining lethal
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and those players still remaining lethal in their scoring aspects is what's going
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to carry them over the hump and into the next round. So continuing to produce how they should is going to be the dominant X factor
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pushing them through this entire second round
