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onlyalad said:
Kings need to win next 6 games and have Nashville or St. Louis or Calgary lose all of their games. Highly unlikely, but not impossible. Flames have Kings once, Ducks twice and Sharks twice. Ducks and Sharks are both hoping for home ice so they may not phone in these games.
Do I think it will happen? Nope but I just downed a root beer float so I am I little euphoric.
I am still going to hope the Kings win until mathematically eliminated.
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I had a whacked out fever dream last night where the Kings won out and Calgary lost all their remaining games. Tkachuk took a bad penalty that cost the Flame their final game. :laugh:
 
St Louis clinches cause Colorado emulating Kopitar with all those posts.

And Calgary clinches. It's all on Nasvhille now.
 
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Axl Rhoadz said:
C'mon, anyone who thought we had a chance at the postseason is ****ing delusional. Sorry. We've been toast for almost a month now.
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The home losses against Vancouver and Arizona signaled the end for me. Then coming out flat against the Blues and Flames on that same stretch. This team didn't care enough to show up in games that mattered.
 
Sharks, 85 points in regulation, 8 in OT/SO
Blues, 84 in reg, 7 in OT/SO
Flames, 79 in reg, 13 in OT/SO
Preds, 85 in reg, 6 in OT/SO
Kings, 68 in reg, 13 in OT/SO

That's an average of 83 regulation points by the other 4 teams, which subtracting the Kings total, is a difference of 15. That's 7/8 regulation losses that killed the season. Philly, Detroit, Dallas, Arizona, Vancouver at home, Buffalo, Colorado, Vancouver on the road. There's your 8. Get 15 points instead of 0, and they're tied with the Ducks for 1st. Go 4-4 instead of 0-8, and that's 89 points, which has them right there in the race. Win every game in 3v3 OT if that's the only way they can win, and they're tied with the Ducks.
 
KingsFan7824 said:
Sharks, 85 points in regulation, 8 in OT/SO
Blues, 84 in reg, 7 in OT/SO
Flames, 79 in reg, 13 in OT/SO
Preds, 85 in reg, 6 in OT/SO
Kings, 68 in reg, 13 in OT/SO

That's an average of 83 regulation points by the other 4 teams, which subtracting the Kings total, is a difference of 15. That's 7/8 regulation losses that killed the season. Philly, Detroit, Dallas, Arizona, Vancouver at home, Buffalo, Colorado, Vancouver on the road. There's your 8. Get 15 points instead of 0, and they're tied with the Ducks for 1st. Go 4-4 instead of 0-8, and that's 89 points, which has them right there in the race. Win every game in 3v3 OT if that's the only way they can win, and they're tied with the Ducks.
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True, but I'm sure those other teams also lost some games to poor teams.

The Kings just don't have a good team right now, and we have to decide whether it's time to reload or rebuild.

Right now it's a bad roster that has been poorly coached and poorly managed.

We deserve to be where we're at.
 
herby said:
true, but i'm sure those other teams also lost some games to poor teams.

The kings just don't have a good team right now, and we have to decide whether it's time to reload or rebuild.

Right now it's a bad roster that has been poorly coached and poorly managed.

We deserve to be where we're at.
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Herby said:
True, but I'm sure those other teams also lost some games to poor teams.

The Kings just don't have a good team right now, and we have to decide whether it's time to reload or rebuild.

Right now it's a bad roster that has been poorly coached and poorly managed.

We deserve to be where we're at.
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Truth.
 
Herby said:
True, but I'm sure those other teams also lost some games to poor teams.

The Kings just don't have a good team right now, and we have to decide whether it's time to reload or rebuild.

Right now it's a bad roster that has been poorly coached and poorly managed.

We deserve to be where we're at.
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Wouldn't doubt it. The Kings deserve to be where they're at, but when SJ is 35-28, St.Louis is 35-28, Calgary is 31-30, and Nashville is 34-27 in regulation, while the Kings are 24-33, some teams are giving away fewer points than others.
 
Herby said:
The Quick injury is significant but Budaj was fantastic filling in, you can't place any blame on injuries.
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Toffoli and Kopitar were the top 2 goal scorers last year, combing for 56 goals(with Sutter as the coach). They have 27 this year, which is a difference of 29. The team is on pace to score 197 goals, and scored 223 last year. The difference? 26 goals. Toffoli was clearly hurt, but he's been more of a 20 goal scorer than 30 goal guy at any point this year. Kopitar, who knows, but he's looking at a full season career low in goals, assists, and points.

Budaj did keep them in the race, but it was through an out of nowhere career season for a 34 year old. His best is basically Quick's average.

Of course injuries are part of it. You can't discount them. Sometimes teams can overcome those injuries, like when they lost both Regehr and Mitchell for the 2nd round in 2014. Sometimes teams can't for whatever reason. Sometimes teams have great health, like in the 2012 playoffs when the Kings had just 6 defenseman play every minute.

Then when all is said and done, if teams win despite injuries, the story is they battled through, or they dug deep. Something heroic and positive. If they lose, well, they had injuries, and you can't expect miracles. Story as old as time. If you win, you've done enough. If you lose, you never quite do enough.
 
KingsFan7824 said:
Wouldn't doubt it. The Kings deserve to be where they're at, but when SJ is 35-28, St.Louis is 35-28, Calgary is 31-30, and Nashville is 34-27 in regulation, while the Kings are 24-33, some teams are giving away fewer points than others.
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We were the Kings of giving away points to others, especially teams well below them in the standings. We were also great at breaking losing streaks. I'm pretty sure we snapped both of Tampa's season long losing streaks.:shakehead
 
Scary moment tonight during the Flyers-Devils game. Neuvirth got the start because Mason was home sick. Anthony Stolarz was called to be backup, was on the road with the Phantoms on the way to Wilke Barre, PA, over 100 miles away. So he was still on his way to the arena when the game started.

a little over 7 min into the 1st period, with nobody near him, faceoff at center, Neuvirth collapses unconscious on the ice.

https://twitter.com/HockeyCentraI/status/848335281044553730

He was alert in the locker room afterwards and able to talk. He was taken to University of Penn hospital.

After the game resumed, the announcers said that the players on the bench were saying that Neuvirth was sick in the locker room before the game. But Stolarz hadn't arrived yet so he had to play.

Nothing yet on what went wrong. post game show , reporters saying players telling them they think Neuvy has the flu that is going thru the team.

As far as the game, Stolarz was solid again, turning away 26 shots in a 3-0 win. I hope he gets the start the rest of the way, he's their future and hopefully their backup next year. Been waiting for this since they signed him, all 6'6 and 235 lbs.

And Weal scored again, 4th straight game with a goal and 8 goals, 2 assists in last 16.


Must see video:

And this short video made my night. The peewee backup goalie, just look how
'happy' he is to be on the team. Priceless

https://twitter.com/HockeyCentraI/status/687018454172344321
 
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