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The Knights are sure a very special team. Nothing really crazy on their line up but just ridiculously productive when it matters.

The Knights are an extremely well coached team while having a very balanced team. They were able to weather the storm of McDavid by just having some really solid coaching and 4 reliable lines.

Every time the Kings had their fourth line out it was a death sentence, what made it worse is that for some reason Todd would put the fourth line out against McDavid.

It’s very sobering to see what it takes to beat the Oilers, and how far the Kings are from getting there.

Riding on the corpse of Kopitar with no one really there at center besides Danault is going to be a very very very scary future.



ALSO goes to show how many people Eichel proved wrong and acting like he didn’t know what was best for his health.
 
Sol said:
The Knights are sure a very special team. Nothing really crazy on their line up but just ridiculously productive when it matters.

The Knights are an extremely well coached team while having a very balanced team. They were able to weather the storm of McDavid by just having some really solid coaching and 4 reliable lines.

Every time the Kings had their fourth line out it was a death sentence, what made it worse is that for some reason Todd would put the fourth line out against McDavid.

It’s very sobering to see what it takes to beat the Oilers, and how far the Kings are from getting there.

Riding on the corpse of Kopitar with no one really there at center besides Danault is going to be a very very very scary future.



ALSO goes to show how many people Eichel proved wrong and acting like he didn’t know what was best for his health.
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Um, Lizotte?
 
ScoreZeGoals said:
They will continue to have McDavid and Draisaitl pile-up points while the hockey media verbally fellates them, nothing is changing anytime soon.
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Butchigross does things to McDavid no man or woman should be doing.. behind or in front of closed doors.
 
Lt Dan said:
what amazes me is that every other hockey fan can see exactly what is wrong with the Oilers and Leafs other than their fans. I blame the media for pumping their tires too hard for views and clicks.
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Edmonton/Toronto futility should be a category in porn.
 
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Sol said:
The Knights are sure a very special team. Nothing really crazy on their line up but just ridiculously productive when it matters.

The Knights are an extremely well coached team while having a very balanced team. They were able to weather the storm of McDavid by just having some really solid coaching and 4 reliable lines.

Every time the Kings had their fourth line out it was a death sentence, what made it worse is that for some reason Todd would put the fourth line out against McDavid.

It’s very sobering to see what it takes to beat the Oilers, and how far the Kings are from getting there.

Riding on the corpse of Kopitar with no one really there at center besides Danault is going to be a very very very scary future.



ALSO goes to show how many people Eichel proved wrong and acting like he didn’t know what was best for his health.
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Helps having a $100M roster too. Again.
 
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King'sPawn said:
Tin foil hat brigade is growing that the league is mandating refs to call more penalties against Canadian teams because the league wants to grow the game in less popular markets.
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The Oilers success this season was very dependent on their power play. The KIngs held their own against the Oilers 5 on 5 and obviously VGK did even better. There was what... one PP each last night? Can't blame the refs at that point and especially can't blame the refs that the better 5 on 5 team won the game last night.
 
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What? Were they massively over the cap?
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They are sitting at like 96 million in actual salary being paid out. If Stone came back regular season they would have need to dump guys. But miraculously his back healed right at the start of the playoffs.

NHL needs to look at this crap or the Kings need to start playing the game.

Knights should be in cap hell this off season. Lehnar should be able to come back from surgery. Emphasize should
 
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BigKing said:
While dancing on the grave of the 2023 Oilers is fun, waking up to the potential nightmare of a Vegas Cup victory after six years of existence is a real dose of reality.

I wanted this Oilers team to lose more than I did Vegas but I also would have been more okay with Edmonton winning the whole thing than Vegas. I hate it all.
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Nah, f*** the oilers lol

Vegas is just a good team
 
fsanford said:
They are sitting at like 96 million in actual salary being paid out. If Stone came back regular season they would have need to dump guys. But miraculously his back healed right at the start of the playoffs.

NHL needs to look at this crap or the Kings need to start playing the game.

Knights should be in cap hell this off season. Lehnar should be able to come back from surgery. Emphasize should
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Tampa Bay started this trend.

I don’t think anyone is outright “faking” injuries or surgeries. But teams are very likely timing recovery periods to game the system at this point.
 
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Bandit said:
Helps having a $100M roster too. Again.
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Also helps to have the league adjust the expansion draft rules like never before so you start with a better team than half the teams in the league…plus you have idiots like Dale Talon make 30 goal scorer Marchissault available so he can protect an extra defenseman. When has an expansion team gotten a guy who scored 30 goals the year before. Plus Pens made HOF Fleury available.

sickening
 
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BigKing said:
2015 Chicago Blackhawks say "Don't forget about us!".
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Or the 2015-2016 Kings.

There was quite a bit of outrage on these forums from other teams when the Kings, while still in contender mode, attempted to get out from the worst contract in the league on what was a very minor issue.

Everyone should have to be cap compliant, or going over the cap only by adding players making less than a certain number ($1.5m) which would allow black aces to still be called up.
 
As mentioned, it was the 2015 Blackhawks who started this. Kane was supposedly done for the year, they add a bunch of depth at the deadline, and Kane is miraculously ready for Game 1.
 
To be clear I'm still not mad about the loophole, it just becomes funny when practically every time it happens the team at least goes super deep, until they address it (like Bettman slapping the Devils over Kovalchuk) people will just get more and more blatant about it to the point where it's insulting everyone's intelligence.
 
The King's benefited from cap circumventing contracts like Richards & Carter's. Lombardi was on a mission to cram as much talent as possible into the window. Still making payments on that.
 
The Oiler found out that Vegas is a much bigger team and will push back physically. Love the Kings but they are too small to contend and win in the playoffs. Kings need bigger physical players with speed to win and of coarse a real Head coach that knows how to coach.
 
Herby said:
Or the 2015-2016 Kings.

There was quite a bit of outrage on these forums from other teams when the Kings, while still in contender mode, attempted to get out from the worst contract in the league on what was a very minor issue.

Everyone should have to be cap compliant, or going over the cap only by adding players making less than a certain number ($1.5m) which would allow black aces to still be called up.
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Not sure how breach of contract is a minor issue, especially if Lombardi was about to bite the bullet and make a trade. Not to mention the Kings are still paying for it.

How is that the same as teams gaming the LTIR system like:
- Hossa's allergy
- Stone's injury
- Datsyuk and countless others being traded to Arizona despite no intention of playing them?
 
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LA didn't sign Richards or Carter to those contracts, that was Philly. All these other Cap circumventing contracts are on the teams who originally signed them.
 
Lt Dan said:
what amazes me is that every other hockey fan can see exactly what is wrong with the Oilers and Leafs other than their fans. I blame the media for pumping their tires too hard for views and clicks.
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This will be on the SAT test next year, so study it:

In the analogy: The Canadian hockey media is to a Canadian hockey team with 100 points in the regular season as...

The stewardess in "Airplane" is to Otto Pilot

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King'sPawn said:
Not sure how breach of contract is a minor issue, especially if Lombardi was about to bite the bullet and make a trade. Not to mention the Kings are still paying for it.

How is that the same as teams gaming the LTIR system like:
- Hossa's allergy
- Stone's injury
- Datsyuk and countless others being traded to Arizona despite no intention of playing them?
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The Hossa's allergy thing is kind of stupid to complain about and I constantly see people talking about it like they had it all planned. Hossa was still very good and useful and likely had a few more years at a decent level, they didn't force him into retirement or anything. Interviews he's given talking about it make it seem like he was playing through torture. His allergy wasn't a lucky break for them at all.
 
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