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Worried long term about Brown. He is on his way to having a season similar to what Richards had last year where he just brings down everyone around him. And it's not as if Brown was stellar last year either, he had stretches of terrible play before picking it up a bit in the playoffs.

I used to be a big fan of long term contracts with lower AAV's, but at this point I'd rather sign guys to shorter deals if possible. Some of these contracts just look worse and worse with each passing game.
 
Kings didn't play bad defense in just those last 7 minutes, they looked bad all night, especially in the 1st period. Flames' players were shooting high and wide throughout the game. It could have been much, much worse than it actually turned out to be.
 
Reclamation Project said:
Plot twist: his proxy is in Buffalo. You'll never silence his positivity Ron!
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Yup, that's me, the old Buzz-Kill.

**** this team! ****ing trade everybody! Player of the week? **** him! Send Kopitar to Edmonton for Scrivens!!!

Did I do it right?
 
Greene can say all he wants about what happened , but a simple pass to an open Williams , instead of ringing off the boards 5 feet out of his reach started the entire chain of events to the tying goal. Hell , he could have even just held onto behind the net, passes it back to Stoll, then Stoll to an open Brown and it's cleanly out and most likely Brown has an open net to shoot at..
 
At the end of the day (or in this case, mid-April), Calgary is likely missing a playoff spot by 10 to 15 points and there will be the Kings again, locked into the 3rd playoff position in the Pacific, starting the playoffs on the road in San Jose.

It's inevitable. Don't fight it, it only makes it worse.
 
If I were a Flames fan I'd be ecstatic, but I'm not. This team looks lazy and their space/time perception looks off...
 
The Kings tonight in gif form:
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Ron said:
Yup, that's me, the old Buzz-Kill.

**** this team! ****ing trade everybody! Player of the week? **** him! Send Kopitar to Edmonton for Scrivens!!!

Did I do it right?
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:laugh: You know I'm kidding every time I say those things right?:)
 
3 straight home games against the Flames where they score a goal in the last minute of the 3rd. Fool me once, and then the Kings have been fooled two more times.

That's why Doughty doesn't win the Norris, and that's why the Kings don't win divisions. They just give too many points away during the season. In various ways, it's obviously not always giving up a 3-0 lead.

The puck goes off the post for Carter, and then it goes off Doughty to tie the game. That's hockey. All they can do is just keep plugging away. The more often you're in a position to get the bounces, the more you get the bounces. It all evens out over the year.

I think their record accurately indicates what they've been this year. They've been decidedly average. It helps that the Pacific division hasn't been great as a whole either. Other than Anaheim, who actually has the largest lead in any division, although their numbers don't look great.

Hit the break, come back, and then they have 4 division games right off the bat. Then 7 consecutive home games after that, and 8 of the next 9. They have 5 points in the last 3 games, so if they can keep that up, they'll put themselves in a good position.
 
Ron said:
It's hockey, you can't take it seriously.

No, it didn't feel great tonight. Turned a win right into a loss. You should have seen the life sucked out of Staples in the OT goal. No one could believe it.

Doughty went total full ZOO Pejorative Slur in the OT, allowing that 2 on 0 to develop. Must have still been thinking about kicking in the tying goal.

Oh, well. Always look on the bright side. We got a point.
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One of the biggest things that drains Doughty is the LA Kings' drained D corps. I personally don't mind reinforcements and prefer having them. This game proved it yet again.
 
Herby said:
Worried long term about Brown. He is on his way to having a season similar to what Richards had last year where he just brings down everyone around him. And it's not as if Brown was stellar last year either, he had stretches of terrible play before picking it up a bit in the playoffs.

I used to be a big fan of long term contracts with lower AAV's, but at this point I'd rather sign guys to shorter deals if possible. Some of these contracts just look worse and worse with each passing game.
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Brownie is the only remaining vestige of my original tenure as a fan of this ****ing sweet hockey team.

That said, he gets MORE TIME across the blueline than any player I've maybe ever seen who's ever masqueraded as a top-sixer at any point. D-men basically just wait for him to slow down and kind of open-ice hug him at like, 14kmph or whatever horrendously slow tempo he's dropped down to. If he's the guy taking the puck across the blue line, I would bet it's like an 95+% chance that puck is not going in the non-LA net.

If someone fires the puck low on the ice, like say, a wrist shotting d-man from 40 ft out, I'd be confident DB would get his stick in the lane and flail in a weird enough fasion to generate a rebound.;)

He should never be the FW carrying the puck into the o-zone though. Right?
 
We're still approaching this from an issue of offense and offense really hasn't been the problem this season. The Kings are uncharacteristically bad on the PK and in their own end. They used to bend to pressure, not break. Now we've seen the Kings completely break under pressure twice in a week. Having a lead in the 3rd used to be a confident win for this team. What happened?
 
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