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Around the League '15-'16: The Final Countdown

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Nefarious said:
Wouldn't it be great if the suspension directly took into account the games lost of the injured player? For example, Keith was suspended for 1 game and Carter was out for 2 games. So it could have been 1 game suspension + 2 for games lost to Carter, so Keith gets 3 games. This could obviously have a conditional soft cap, depending on the severity of the injury and intent to injure. So the offending player wouldn't necessarily be out the whole season, if the injured player was.

This, to me, seem mostly apt in a playoff setting where one player can take out a key player of another team, but can still play himself.

I'm obviously on the pipe dream bandwagon here. Just thinking out loud.
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Not that it changes your thought process, but Carter did not miss any games from the slash.

Just don't want this revisionist history taking hold. What happened was the Kings had a glorious chance to send the series back to Chicago 2-2 but lost at home to a team without Duncan Keith in the lineup for Game 3. Keith got off very easy from that slash though.

Richards missed games that series from the Bolland head shot.
 
gnarls barkley said:
by the way, if you guys want to live the authentic bandwagon Hawks fan experience in real-time like I get to every time I go to a bar, feel free to check out the Keith suspension thread on the mainboard. loads of absolutely un-biased, well-adjusted individuals calmly sharing their opinions there.
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This has to be best one, hands down.

He was slewfooted with a stick.
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deeshamrock said:
Some of the 30 points cover the Vesey situation, and how the Preds got screwed, possible tampering and how hard it is to prove (it was said on TSN yesterday that it’s rather rampant in the NHL but too hard for teams to prove).
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This is an issue I wish could be dealt with severely. Even if it meant a team caught would have to sacrifice multiple first round picks and having the NHL close whatever loopholes with these situations.

It's equally disgusting looking over the boards and so many fans turning into those seagulls from finding Nemo when a player is considering using the loophole to test free agency.
 
BigKing said:
Not that it changes your thought process, but Carter did not miss any games from the slash.

Just don't want this revisionist history taking hold. What happened was the Kings had a glorious chance to send the series back to Chicago 2-2 but lost at home to a team without Duncan Keith in the lineup for Game 3. Keith got off very easy from that slash though.

Richards missed games that series from the Bolland head shot.
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Yep. We blew that series on our own. I think we had a lead at some point in the second, too.

Richards was one of our best players that run, and the Toffoli/Carter combo really exploded for the first time during that Chicago series.

Have no idea where this Carter missed games myth came from, though.
 
Are people really surprised that Burns is scoring a ton of goals? Since he's a hybrid player it doesn't seem like such a huge deal to me. Now if he was strictly a defense that would be amazing.
 
SettlementRichie10 said:
Yep. We blew that series on our own. I think we had a lead at some point in the second, too.

Richards was one of our best players that run, and the Toffoli/Carter combo really exploded for the first time during that Chicago series.

Have no idea where this Carter missed games myth came from, though.
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Wouldn't matter if we had won that game, we were out-classed all series long. Didn't help that Kopitar was MIA....so much so that everyone was convinced he was injured. (I still believe he was, I can't remember a time where he was so bad)
 
Axl Rhoadz said:
Wouldn't matter if we had won that game, we were out-classed all series long. Didn't help that Kopitar was MIA....so much so that everyone was convinced he was injured. (I still believe he was, I can't remember a time where he was so bad)
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Brown was also pointless that Chicago series too. I know he had the partially torn ligament in his knee but he was still their top line LW.
 
Man it felt good riding on top of the division for so long. Couldn't last forever. Going to need a miracle.
 
Axl Rhoadz said:
Wouldn't matter if we had won that game, we were out-classed all series long. Didn't help that Kopitar was MIA....so much so that everyone was convinced he was injured. (I still believe he was, I can't remember a time where he was so bad)
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Come home and win Game 6 to send it to a Game 7 and you never know.

Detroit pushed them to Game 7 OT the round before so they weren't totally indestructible.

Regardless, you have to win that game at home with Keith out.
 
Axl Rhoadz said:
A miracle? Why would the Kings need a miracle when they have control of their own destiny?
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??? You think the Kings will show up and win the head to head with the Ducks?

Going to need the Flames to win tonight to hold on.
 
Still think the Kings would rather finish second and play the Sharks in the first round. Less travel and no time changes.

With those 7 games series in 2014, the Kings were helped by playing the Sharks and Ducks in the first two rounds. Kept travel relatively light.
 
YP44 said:
only good thing about 1st in the division is that it gets you home ice round 2..however you have to get there first.
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Right, and if you told me the choice was Nashville or San Jose, I'd take San Jose 100 times out of 100. Let the chips fall where they may for round 2.
 
It would still be nice to win the division, but it's a cool bit of trivia that the Kings have more Cups than division titles. Can't imagine that being too common in professional sports.
 
TonySCV said:
Right, and if you told me the choice was Nashville or San Jose, I'd take San Jose 100 times out of 100. Let the chips fall where they may for round 2.
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I don't buy that, a lot of you guys are underestimating the Sharks this year. They're hungry and have quietly been one of the best road teams (if not the best) in the league. Get their act together at home and I really don't want to play them again in a best of 7, especially since their starter is our ****ing old backup, and beating the Kings is pretty much the biggest item on their to-do list.

Nashville isn't a pushover either though. Lot of competition this year, unlike last...
 
TonySCV said:
The Ducks Round 1 and 2 match-ups last year were NOT hard. A little luck helps too.
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There are no Flames or Jets this time around. I mean, maybe the Wild, but the Kings aren't getting #1 in the conference to land them. Everyone else is going to be tough.
 
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