Unfortunately any players we had that are better than injured Karlsson are also injured.If Karlson is hurt he shouldn't be playing. He is only hurting his team. As seems the case.
Ek is hurt and should be sheltered to offensive zone playing and pp. He has been horrid in his own zone outside of game 1 and is not playing a simple game against a relentless forechecking team, which is kind of a must.