Around the League Thread part V

[Nasti]

Only 12 players remain from that draft class now, excluding Getzlaf:

Pavelski, Bergeron, Burns, Carter, Perry, Parise, Suter, Brown, Eriksson, Boyle, Richardson, and Thompson.

Wonder who retires last.

Would be awesome if it was Boyle simply because he was considered a disappointment compared to the players who were drafted after him.

 

[KingsHockey24]

Lots of fighting going on around the league right now it seems which I love.

It's too bad we don't have any players like that besides Durzi and an injured Lemieux.

 

[kilowatt]

Edmonton with the OT victory. We're now third in the Pacific. Not to be dramatic, but we might miss the playoffs at this rate.

Kings have 10 games left, Edmonton and Vegas have 11. If we finish the season 5-5-0, Edmonton could go 5-6-0 and Vegas 7-4-0 and we'd be fourth in the Pacific and likely 9th in the West.

 

[BringTheReign]

Looks like we’re really going to see what the kids are made of in the next four weeks. Finding that last 10% to get over the hump is always the hardest thing to learn at any step of the way.

 

[fsanford]

Edmonton with the OT victory. We're now third in the Pacific. Not to be dramatic, but we might miss the playoffs at this rate.

Kings have 10 games left, Edmonton and Vegas have 11. If we finish the season 5-5-0, Edmonton could go 5-6-0 and Vegas 7-4-0 and we'd be fourth in the Pacific and likely 9th in the West.

If the Kings cannot make the playoffs playing a very weak schedule in April they did not deserve to be in. Oilers schedule is a very difficult one

 

[KingsHockey24]

It's more than likely we miss the playoffs at this point.

 

[shuchukfan]

You know, I honestly wouldn't be that upset if they missed the playoffs. Unfortunately, if they miss the playoffs, then that means Vegas got in, which would really piss me off!

 

[bouncesonly]

If the Kings cannot make the playoffs playing a very weak schedule in April they did not deserve to be in. Oilers schedule is a very difficult one

A bit hyperbolic....their schedule is a little bit harder than the Kings.

 

[fsanford]

Oilers play Avs twice, Pens Preds, Stars, Wild and Knights. Along with one more against Kings. That is a nasty schedule

 

[bland]

Personally, I would much rather play games against teams the Kings are in direct competition with for those spots. Too many opportunities for loose teams with nothing to lose coming up.

 

[fsanford]

A bit hyperbolic....their schedule is a little bit harder than the Kings.

Oilers play 8 games against playoff teams or at least are in the mix. Kings have 3 games how is this hyperbolic?

 

[Nasti]

This happens every damn year. Fans always assume the non playoff teams are the easy ones. The spoiler effect is real folks. They play loose and to secure jobs for next year while the team fighting for a spot takes them lightly. We literally just saw the Kings get bitch slapped by an expansion team last week.

 

[shuchukfan]

Duplicate

 

[fsanford]

This happens every damn year. Fans always assume the non playoff teams are the easy ones. The spoiler effect is real folks. They play loose and to secure jobs for next year while the team fighting for a spot takes them lightly. We literally just saw the Kings get bitch slapped by an expansion team last week.

If the team fighting for a playoff takes them lightly that is on the team and coach.

Personally i would rather have Kings remaining schedule vs the Oilers remaining schedule.

The analytics would agree with me. The probability of beating Ducks, Hawks etc is higher than beating Preds, Avs, Stars, Wild etc. Does not mean Kings will win though.

 

[Herby]

The KO’ed teams in the west have been horrible, there is no way anyone can say they’d rather be playing teams in the race than these teams who are just rolling over and/or don’t have capable rosters.

Record since 3/1 vs western playoff contenders

Winnipeg - 3-2
Vancouver - 2-5
Anaheim - 0-6
San Jose - 3-8
Chicago - 2-2
Seattle - 3-3
Arizona - 2-3

15-29

The Kings have 12 possible points left against these teams (+ 2 more from Columbus). Absolutely zero excuse to not get 10 points out of those 7 games.

 

[Frolov 6'3]

Captain Baldy is retiring.

His lack of goalscoring always gave me the feeling he was terribly overrated.

Never a fan of Getzlaf.

 

[KingsFan7824]

It's more than likely we miss the playoffs at this point.

That all depends on how many games they win vs. how many games other teams lose.

 

[Frolov 6'3]

It's more than likely we miss the playoffs at this point.

No offense my friend but

 

[KingsHockey24]

No offense my friend but

We're trending downwards while everyone else are on big winning streaks.

We'll just pretend to be shocked at the end of the season acting like we didn't have a giant collapse when we were close to being #1 in the Pacific at times. We have the least amount of games remaining against the teams we're competing against and the worst last 10.

 

[Frolov 6'3]

We're trending downwards while everyone else are on big winning streaks.

We'll just pretend to be shocked at the end of the season acting like we didn't have a giant collapse when we were close to being #1 in the Pacific at times. We have the least amount of games remaining against the teams we're competing against and the worst last 10.

We just lost one game and got 15 points out of the last 10 games.

Its impossible to miss the playoffs if you keep gaining points.

Teams play each other too.

You said “most likely” to miss the playoffs.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

I'd feel a lot better about the final stretch if we didn't see this movie in 2015.

All we have to do is beat the lowly Oilers, they say, as Doughty scores the lone goal on a slapshot from center ice.

 

[Nasti]

I'd feel a lot better about the final stretch if we didn't see this movie in 2015.

All we have to do is beat the lowly Oilers, they say, as Doughty scores the lone goal on a slapshot from center ice.

2006 also comes to mind.

 

[bouncesonly]

Oilers play 8 games against playoff teams or at least are in the mix. Kings have 3 games how is this hyperbolic?

5 of their games, we play the same team. 3 of the other 5 games, Nash/Veg/Dallas, are the ones that matter more. Pittsburgh will probably have clinched the playoffs by the time the Oilers play them. EDM's only back-to-back is at home at the end of the season against SJ and Van. But 2 of the 3 games against Nash/Veg/Dallas are at home, with a nice break in between Vegas and Dallas, and considering their record at home, at the worst they should get 2 points.

Kings play Anaheim 2x, Chicago 2x, and Seattle....they're not Nash/Veg/Dallas, but two of them are in the Pacific and the Kings have been garbage against their division compared to the performance against the Eastern Conference. Not to mention, Kings also have 2 back-to-backs on the road, with one of them against Colorado on the back end.

So yeah, slightly more difficult with context. But if you want to say, absent of any context and simply list the teams playing, the Oilers schedule is "very difficult", I suppose.

 

[Herby]

The one downside that the Kings have is that they struggle to score, so the blow out type games you see from some of our opponents vs teams like Anaheim and Seattle are harder to come by. The Kings for the most part just play everyone 3-2, with a lot of those games going to OT regardless of who the opponent is. That is why mistakes like the one Cal had on the opening shift are just so tough to overcome.

That being said, teams like Chicago and Anaheim who make up 40% of the remaining schedule are clearly in Cancun mode and have to be at minimum 6 points.

 

[Axl Rhoadz]

We're trending downwards while everyone else are on big winning streaks.

We'll just pretend to be shocked at the end of the season acting like we didn't have a giant collapse when we were close to being #1 in the Pacific at times. We have the least amount of games remaining against the teams we're competing against and the worst last 10.

Every time we lose a game, a bunch of the negative-nancys go in to full-on panic mode. We are 3 games over .500 in the last month -- have lost back to back only twice. Newsflash: we most likely will not win the next 10 in a row, but when we do lose, it doesn't necessarily equate into missing the playoffs.