Sunday's Standings in Points Blown
In our new Western Sub-Conference, we have ten teams fighting for 5 playoff spots. SJS and CHI have been expelled for being too good, EDM and CBJ for being too bad and COL is out for the moment...
weird-science
Kings are 4-8-0 (.333) in their last 12; any Western playoffteams do that last year?
Yes. One team did it last year. The Blues. They went 1-7-1 (.167) in October/November. Vancouver came close: 2-5-5 (.375) in January. Chicago almost did: 3-7-3 (.346), before the Bulin wall took...
Tonight's Games
Teams we want to lose in bold. Avs/Sabres Isles/Yotes Ducks/Preds Hawks/Wild (Hawks losing is also beneficial) Flames/Nucks (either one is fine; but no 3point games, please) Blues/Kings Wings/...
How Does Kopitar's Season Compare to Last Year?
He's on pace for 32 goals (tying his career best from two years ago) and 48 assists (exceeding his career best of 45, two years ago) for 80 points. Three points better than two years ago, fourteen...
Wednesday's Standings in Points Blown
The Good: Stars lose, Flames lose, Avs lose, Blues half-lose (OT). The Bad: Sharks win, three-point game. Colorado drops below the Kings for the first time in awhile. Five points separate the 3rd...
It's Not Too Early to Consider Tie-Breakers (or, why we are rooting for one of Vancouver or Calgary, but we don't know which one)
The Kings are likely to be in a down-to-the-wire dogfight for 4th thru 8th place, with eight teams competing for six spots. One of CGY, COL or VAN will win the NW and get the 1-3 seed, and the...
UPDATE: Kings Pre-Olympic Mini-Season -- record so far? 2-0-0
Not bad. 18 games till the break. 6 against the East: BUF, TOR, BOS x2, NJD, NYR 12 against the West: SJS x2, DET x3, ANA x3, STL, CBJ, EDM, COL against teams ahead of the Kings league-wide: 5 a...
Who Leads the Kings in GFON/60 (Goals-For While On Ice Per 60 Minutes of Ice-time)?
Parse 3.4 Simmonds 3.36 Smyth 3.33 Kopitar 3.14 Jones 3.02 What about +-/60? Simmonds Stoll SOD Parse Segal Goals/60? Parse 1.02 Stoll 0.95 Kopitar 0.95 Williams 0.95 Frolov 0.92 Simmonds 0.84 R...
Standings in Points Blown: Kings XMas Vacation Edition
Okay, now that the Kings 8 day winter break is all but over, and all of our rivals have played their games while we were drinking egg nog, let's look at how the Kings did in terms of points blown....
With Sunday's Results, the Kings PLayoff Chances Tick Up 1.1%
...to 78%. Numbers per SportsClubStats (link below). Essentially, what the site does is, they randomly generate results for the rest of the season, running millions of complete season simulations...
