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Going to be interesting to see who TM goes with in the playoffs. Copley isn't flashy but he does win games. Korprisalo seems to me to be the better goaltender and has playoff experience but has lost a few games. So who should TM go with in the playoffs.
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tny760 said:
it's a little worrying to me because i'm seeing another gibson/andersen, allen/elliott situation brewing

having 1a/1b is killer in the regular season but playoffs are a bit of a different story to me
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I agree. I have some (probably misguided) faith that Todd understands this too and will not go into the playoffs with a 1a 1b mentality. He jumped on the first meritocratic chance to give korpi two straight starts, which makes me think he is leaning the right way.
 
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I felt like tonight against the Kraken, Copley played his best game,
After that, I start with Copley and go with him until he loses and then bring in Korpi and hope he goes next level
The reason is I don't like the prospect of starting Korpi and then having to bring in Copley to try to rally.
It is not very conventional and I believe TMac will go with Korpi fron the start.
 
Surf Nutz said:
I felt like tonight against the Kraken, Copley played his best game,
After that, I start with Copley and go with him until he loses and then bring in Korpi and hope he goes next level
The reason is I don't like the prospect of starting Korpi and then having to bring in Copley to try to rally.
It is not very conventional and I believe TMac will go with Korpi fron the start.
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Guess what, the Kings started the season with Quick/ Petersen and it was looking awful. Copley comes into the picture and everything changes! Copley has already come in to rally the team, so he's use to it already. Of course the playoffs are different. You will be playing the same playoff team a minimum of 4 straight times and up to a max of 7 times.
 
Tbh all we needed is a warm body in net (Copley) and we games. If we had traded for korp earlier we would have won the west. Just because Copley has wins doesn't me he should get game 1.
 
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TwzKing said:
Tbh all we needed is a warm body in net (Copley) and we games. If we had traded for korp earlier we would have won the west. Just because Copley has wins doesn't me he should get game 1.
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He deserves game 1. I don't care what metric people use to "evaluate" goalies for playoffs, if it wasn't for Copley, Kings would not be where they are right now. No way Korpisalo gets the Kings into playoffs if they rode Quick/Peterson until the trade deadline. If this means the Kings get bounced in the first round, so be it....it's not like anyone here have the Kings going deep with the litany of "problems" from player management, player performance, coaches decision, timeouts etc.
 
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Korpisalo is better for sure. Not a hard choice for me. Copley is very slow and it’s only a matter of time before it plummets imo.
 
I've been on IR for almost a week and just woke up in a fog so pardon me if I have some of the details wrong but assuming Korpisalo starts on sunday because Copley started on Saturday doesn't that make Korpisalo the starter in 3 of the last 4 and 3 of the 4 on the road trip?

I wish I had put out into the world somewhere public my thought whenI had it but a while ago I saw that back to back at home leading into a trip and thought "I bet that's when the rotation ends"

Maybe I'm wrong and McLellan goes back to the rotation but it always seemed to me that going with the rotation into this trip and then using the trip as a turning point in the schedule (10 games or so left), not clinched but just waiting for the math to play out... I think the reasons most people have listed for wanting Korpisalo in net make sense to me.
 
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Not worried about who starts. Copley should get game 1 and go from there. He got us here. The weakness will be the undersized forwards that will get overmatched and worn down.
 
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Only old baseball heads are going to remember this, but Copley to me is Bob Welch with the bash brothers Oakland A's. Korpisalo in this case is Dave Stewart. Bob Welch won like 27 games that season even though by every metric he was behind Dave Stewart in effectiveness. It's because he received a ridiculous amount of run support. That doesn't make him a bad option. Just that there is a better one.
 
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I'd like to see some kind of GIF of that. Lt Dan

cyclones22 said:
Only old baseball heads are going to remember this, but Copley to me is Bob Welch with the bash brothers Oakland A's. Korpisalo in this case is Dave Stewart. Bob Welch won like 27 games that season even though by every metric he was behind Dave Stewart in effectiveness. It's because he received a ridiculous amount of run support. That doesn't make him a bad option. Just that there is a better one.
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You wanted someone to come in and swoop with a MoneyBall reference throwing out stats and Oakland. I"m not doing it. We're trying to solve a problem here.
 
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cyclones22 said:
Only old baseball heads are going to remember this, but Copley to me is Bob Welch with the bash brothers Oakland A's. Korpisalo in this case is Dave Stewart. Bob Welch won like 27 games that season even though by every metric he was behind Dave Stewart in effectiveness. It's because he received a ridiculous amount of run support. That doesn't make him a bad option. Just that there is a better one.
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I read that and I see two ex-Dodgers. My world through a blue lens.
 
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If you can't see it will be Korpi as the starter game 1 in the playoffs, then i'm not sure anything needs to be said
 
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Copley could be another Dwayne Roloson OR another Jim Carey. A goaltender who was seemingly a career minor leaguer until he wasn't and became an NHL starter OR a flash in the pan, fools gold.

Either way, Copley's fate is more in Todd's hands than it is in his own. Wonder how much Ranford's input factors in?

I'd go Korpisalo and fwiw, all the prolonged goalie rotation did was stall the guy (whoever, whichever he may be) from getting into the groove, into the zone and sharp for the playoffs. Dumb dumb dumb dumb.

What percentage of games, from games 62-82 do teams play their starters from there on out across the league? Officially, I have no idea. But I betcha it's a really high percentage of starts go to your #1 at from that point in the season on.
 
All The Kings Men said:
I've been on IR for almost a week and just woke up in a fog so pardon me if I have some of the details wrong but assuming Korpisalo starts on sunday because Copley started on Saturday doesn't that make Korpisalo the starter in 3 of the last 4 and 3 of the 4 on the road trip?

I wish I had put out into the world somewhere public my thought whenI had it but a while ago I saw that back to back at home leading into a trip and thought "I bet that's when the rotation ends"

Maybe I'm wrong and McLellan goes back to the rotation but it always seemed to me that going with the rotation into this trip and then using the trip as a turning point in the schedule (10 games or so left), not clinched but just waiting for the math to play out... I think the reasons most people have listed for wanting Korpisalo in net make sense to me.
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That's the toast of champions right there
 
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