LAK 6 : EDM 4 - Never a dull moment

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No player in the league that has played more than 24:00/game has more than a +12 (credit to Duncan Keith for having that).

...except Drew Doughty, who is +24.
 
Seriously, I know they're tired, but we may as well run with that theme if people are going to keep *****ing that we're somehow getting ref help again :laugh:

Best possession team in the league by several percent, 3rd worst penaltiy differential, LOL HOLLYWOOD

At this point, you might as well be a wrestling heel and revel in the hate. It only makes winning that much sweeter.
 
Let's say Nashville passes Chicago and Chicago ends up in the wild card spot, if we end up first in the Pacific we play the Hawks? I always get confused with this new playoff format.

First place team in the conference plays the number 8 team or 2nd wild card. The winner of the other division or by default, second place team in conference, plays the number 7 team or the 1st wild card.
So in the scenario you mention yes that is exactly what would happen. The Kings would get the Hawks.
If Chicago falls to the wildcard the only way to avoid them would be to win the conference or fall to second in the division.
Or the very unlikely thing of Chicago falling all the way to the second wild card spot.
 
Seriously, I know they're tired, but we may as well run with that theme if people are going to keep *****ing that we're somehow getting ref help again :laugh:

Best possession team in the league by several percent, 3rd worst penaltiy differential, LOL HOLLYWOOD

1 PP chance tonight.

Toffolis 2nd goal, 2 clean chops to his hand...nothing was gonna be called.
Lucic, after a clean bump on Maroon along the board gets crosschecked, not once, but twice by him, both blatantly overlooked calls, finally had enough a went after him and they fought.
 
I had to look at Drew's ice time after your comment.


23:37 haven't seen it that low in awhile! :amazed:

Second game in a row at 23 minutes. Winnipeg game all 6 defensemen played 9-10 shifts and between 6-7 minutes in the 3rd period. Even Kopitar only took one more shift than Andreoff. Two goal game and Sutter really wasn't trying for a win. Quite clear his goal is to rest guys and get into the playoffs as healthy as possible.
 
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Can you blame them?
 

That reminds me, time for everyone to mail their 3 dollar check to Bettman. It is due by April 11th. And make it US dollars this year. Remember we sent Canadian dollars last year and how that turned out.
 
That reminds me, time for everyone to mail their 3 dollar check to Bettman. It is due by April 11th. And make it US dollars this year. Remember we sent Canadian dollars last year and how that turned out.

Yup, and right now not one Canadian team is in the playoff race. :laugh:
 
Little do the main boards know that the Kings are secretly funded by The Million Dollar Man Ted DiBiase, who is the man responsible for paying off the refs and pads Uncle Gary's wallet in order for the Kings to get all of the favorable calls. Bahahahahaha.

 
I went to bed early in the third. I'm glad they hung on but the parts of the game I did see they had the puck in the Oilers' end so much it looked like a PP.
 
Vinny was a game-time decision, right? He had a pretty rough game, and Hockey Night in Canada ran a ~5 minute feature on him in the first intermission. They had interviews with Toffoli, Doughty and Kopitar. I have to wonder if they were on the fence about him and someone from the network mentioned it.

I know Sutter wouldn't care, but maybe Vinny knew and said he was good to go? I don't know. It was possibly his worst game as a King, and he was a last minute decision, WITH the feature. Something something about smoke and fire being in the same place etc.
 
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Vinny was a game-time decision right? He had a pretty rough game, but Hockey Night in Canada ran a ~5 minute feature on him in the first intermission. They had done interviews with Toffoli, Doughty and Kopitar. I have to wonder if they were on the fence about him and someone from the network mentioned it.

I know Sutter wouldn't care, but maybe Vinny knew and said he was good to go? I dunno.

Here is the LINK to that feature on Vinny Lecavalier.

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Quick looks tired to me, last few games he has gotten dangerously slow moving the puck when most of the year he was quite solid with it.

Not tired bored. Wait for playoffs and he will bring it. One thing you and Ziggy and the rest do not have to worry about is J. Quick's game. The only thing I am a little worried about is the PK and that may be what kills the Kings in the Playoffs.
 
I think at this point both the Kings and the Hawks are just chillin and not showing off their playbooks.

Everyone else is going balls to the wall.

Don't get me wrong I don't want to face a team that goes hot into the playoffs like Nashville but i'll take that team I saw vs. the central when we clinched into the playoffs anytime.
 
I think at this point both the Kings and the Hawks are just chillin and not showing off their playbooks.

Everyone else is going balls to the wall.

Don't get me wrong I don't want to face a team that goes hot into the playoffs like Nashville but i'll take that team I saw vs. the central when we clinched into the playoffs anytime.

I think it's obvious that's Sutter's plan. In interviews, he never talks about winning the division. Just getting into the playoffs. He's in tinker mode and seems to be managing minutes interestingly. We've all seen it. It drives us nuts when he throws out the 4th line late in a game holding the lead for a dzone face-off. But there's a method to his madness.
 
No player in the league that has played more than 24:00/game has more than a +12 (credit to Duncan Keith for having that).

...except Drew Doughty, who is +24.

but plus/minus is worthless and doesn't matter!

...here look at these corsi rel stats from this guy on a garbage possession team, look how good he is
 

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