Kings Gameday: Poor Fro
by RudyKelly on Dec 5, 2008 11:02 AM PST
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7:30 PST, Fox Sports West
To recap: Sean O'Donnell takes a boneheaded penalty and giftwraps a goal for the other team? Right back on the ice. Dustin Brown takes a bad penalty with the team already down a man? Right back on the ice. Alex Frolov misses an assignment and costs the team a goal? Benched for the rest of the game (despite the fact that the team is down a goal and Fro leads the team in goals), swathed in the red jersey of the 4th liner, and forced into a one-on-one meeting with Terry Murray. That's kind of fucked up. That's like suspending the straight-A kid for talking out of turn. I hope he wasn't sad, that would break my heart.
The Kings haven't been scoring recently, with pretty much all the scoring coming from the Stoll-Handzus-Frolov line. Brownitar has been absent from view since Kyle Calder re-joined their line (I think I should have another line naming contest: Used Condom seems appropriate) and the O'Sullivan/Moller combo doesn't quite have enough juice to feast on the underbelly of other teams. Want to hear a crazy, not true theory of mine? The Kings don't want to bring up Ted Purcell because he has a lot of performance bonuses in his contract and the Kings don't want to pay for them. Insane, but possibly true.
The Kings just had a player's only meeting to try to uncover why they can't put the puck in the GD net, so we'll see how that goes tonight. Something needs to happen, though, because the Kings look pretty terrible right now.
If one person boos Lubo tonight, I will freak the fuck out. I will find them and kick them square in the ass.
Prediction: Kings win, 3-2. Goals by Frolov (x3). Then he talks out of turn and gets benched.
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Oh, I totally believe it. Stealing a page from the Ducks and Bobby Ryan, I think.
I mean, there's certainly side benefits in player minutes and development, but definitely the cost of bonuses gets factored into that decision-making, especially for a team committed to spending as little as the CBA will allow.
by Earl Sleek on Dec 5, 2008 11:43 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
by Scott on Dec 5, 2008 12:03 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
That's dangerous territory. If we started predicting losses, then people might start taking the predictions seriously.
by Earl Sleek on Dec 5, 2008 12:07 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
Earl never predicts losses, I don't think.
by RudyKelly on Dec 5, 2008 12:09 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
As best I can remember, I think I've predicted two or three Ducks losses in as many years, but it'd be damn hard for me to go find them.
Here's one of them from last February, though, just to prove it can be done. In that case, it was to offset some potentially dangerous karma.
by Earl Sleek on Dec 5, 2008 12:26 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
Prediction: Oilers win, 5-1. Fuck my magic Palffy jersey, I'm wearing my autographed Kopitar third!"
by Kevin Y on Dec 5, 2008 3:22 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
Don't boo Lubo, Kings win 3-2 AND hold on to thier 1 goal lead in the 3rd period!
by chris in torrance on Dec 5, 2008 4:01 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
The cartoon you're talking about is at the bottom of this post. I had a little trouble finding it, but then I remembered that I was in Indiana when I first saw it, and it was posted within a day of Ilya Bryzgalov becoming a Coyote.
by Earl Sleek on Dec 5, 2008 4:09 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
by RudyKelly on Dec 5, 2008 4:10 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
Next time just ask one of us.
by Earl Sleek on Dec 5, 2008 4:11 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
And where the hell did "cockfags" come from?
by Kevin Y on Dec 5, 2008 4:25 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
If you guys ask me one more question, I'll rip your fucking balls off and stuff them up your ass so that the next time you shit, you'll shit all over your balls, got it?
by RudyKelly on Dec 5, 2008 4:26 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
(Not a question, not a question... I should be safe)
by Marl on Dec 5, 2008 4:41 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
No, I didn't get it. Could you please repea.. AAHHHHH!!!
by Kevin Y on Dec 5, 2008 4:46 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
Fuck yeah.
What's up with "GD net"? Scared off by Bettman and his concern for inquisitive children?
by Earl Sleek on Dec 5, 2008 5:33 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
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