EatTheGlass wrote:This is not a bad team that missed the playoffs....this is a good team that has had bad puck luck. They were again on top of the league in Corsi stats.
Their OT/SO record was 2nd worst in the league, had they won half of those, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
They're out of the playoffs because of bad luck?
You don't think other teams had to overcome adversity or PUCK LUCK?
Comparing this team to last year was LA's fan's and the media, all they talked about was dynasty and shit.
If if if if.....Stats? You can possess the puck all you want if you don't score. LA was the first team in almost ten years to miss the playoffs after wining the cup.
Bad luck? One of the worst road teams in the league and couldn't win in O/T or S/O isn't bad luck.
The fucking flames and Jets made it in, LA has no excuses. The Flames wasn't supposed to make the playoffs then lost their best player and still battled too make it in. The Jet's lost Buttfuglin 4 of the last 5 and still won to make it in. Meanwhile The Kings showed no heart down the stretch and lost, no excuses.
LA is a good team of underachievers now they're out and it don't matter but it has anything to do with luck.
I like LA and even if they made it in, no fucking way would it have been the LA of past that took the world by surprise. They ended right where they was supposed to be, out of the race.
No worries, I expect them to be back next year.
The players locked out Sutter after the loss?
Slap Shots has been told by two sources that the Kings locked the door to their locker room following a defeat on the road within the last two weeks so that Sutter could not get in and deliver what the players apparently expected to be another in a series of lectures/tirades.
As the tale was told, after Sutter finally tracked down an arena operative to unlock the door, he was greeted by three heavy waste receptacles lined up as barricade to what had become an empty room.
Thus, it would be no stretch to suggest tension between the team and the coach, who led the Kings to those two Cups, was a significant issue as L.A. went down the stretch before their elimination Thursday night in Calgary following a shocking defeat two nights earlier in Edmonton, of all places.
Imagine. Players, for once, engineering a lockout.
