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Mike Babcock on the Jake Muzzin – Nikita Zaitsev pairing: “They are hard guys to play against”

This season, you’ve had the opportunity to manage the minutes front through the back. You look at Morgan Rielly’s ice time last night with nearly 28 minutes of play and 25 in the playoffs. Does he have the legs to go, obviously, given he was more or less playing five or six minutes less a game in the season?

Babcock: The bottom line is we try to do what we do each day to win that game. We try to manage everything over a period of time. At playoff time, the bottom line is you’ve got to be able to find a way to win that game that night.