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REVEALED: Terry Murray’s Secret Goalie Rotation Calendar

A reliable though entirely fictional psychic gave me this window into the future. Barring unforeseen injuries or suckiness, this is guaranteed to be at least mostly probably accurate with a margin of error in the 2-50% range. That is to say, it’s the kind of thing we do here when there are four days off.

My working assumptions are (1) Terry Murray wants Jonathan Bernier to play about once a week; (2) Murray wantsJonathan Quick to play the bulk of the in-division (especially) and in-conference games; (3) Murray wants Quick to play somewhere in the 55-59 game range.

There are 13 back-to-back pairs, three of which have already been played.

I’m curious whether Murray will go to Bernier for the Lightning game and save Quick for the Preds, or flip it and let Bernier go ten days between games (which he’s already done once this year).

(just to re-emphasize, I understand that this is an exercise in futility; call it a conversation starter.)

Days Rest
KINGS@CANUCKS 10/9/10 Quick
KINGS@FLAMES 10/10/10 Bernier
THRASHERS@KINGS 10/12/10 Quick 3
CANUCKS@KINGS 10/15/10 Quick 3
FOUR DAY BREAK
HURRICANES@KINGS 10/20/10 Bernier 10
KINGS@COYOTES 10/21/10 Quick 6
KINGS@AVALANCHE 10/23/10 Quick 2
KINGS@WILD 10/25/10 Quick 2
KINGS@BLACKHAWKS 10/27/10 Bernier 7
KINGS@STARS 10/28/10 Quick 3
DEVILS@KINGS 10/30/10 Quick 2
FOUR DAY BREAK
LIGHTNING@KINGS 11/4/10 Quick 5
PREDATORS@KINGS 11/6/10 Bernier 10
FOUR DAY BREAK
STARS@KINGS 11/11/10 Quick 7
ISLANDERS@KINGS 11/13/10 Bernier 7
KINGS@SHARKS 11/15/10 Quick 4
BLUEJACKETS@KINGS 11/17/10 Quick 2
KINGS@SABRES 11/19/10 Bernier 6
KINGS@BRUINS 11/20/10 Quick 3
KINGS@SENATORS 11/22/10 Quick 2
KINGS@CANADIENS 11/24/10 Bernier 5
BLACKHAWKS@KINGS 11/27/10 Quick 5
KINGS@DUCKS 11/29/10 Quick 2
PANTHERS@KINGS 12/2/10 Bernier 6
REDWINGS@KINGS 12/4/10 Quick 5
FOUR DAY BREAK
FLAMES@KINGS 12/9/10 Quick 5
WILD@KINGS 12/11/10 Bernier 9
KINGS@REDWINGS 12/13/10 Quick 4
KINGS@BLUES 12/16/10 Quick 3
KINGS@PREDATORS 12/18/10 Bernier 7
KINGS@BLACKHAWKS 12/19/10 Quick 3
KINGS@AVALANCHE 12/21/10 Quick 2
OILERS@KINGS 12/23/10 Quick 2
DUCKS@KINGS 12/26/10 Bernier 8
KINGS@SHARKS 12/27/10 Quick 4
KINGS@COYOTES 12/29/10 Quick 2
FLYERS@KINGS 12/30/10 Bernier 4
SHARKS@KINGS 1/1/11 Quick 3
BLACKHAWKS@KINGS 1/3/11 Quick 2
PREDATORS@KINGS 1/6/11 Bernier 7
BLUEJACKETS@KINGS 1/8/11 Quick 5
MAPLELEAFS@KINGS 1/10/11 Quick 2
BLUES@KINGS 1/13/11 Bernier 7
OILERS@KINGS 1/15/11 Quick 5
KINGS@STARS 1/17/11 Quick 2
KINGS@BLUES 1/18/11 Bernier 5
COYOTES@KINGS 1/20/11 Quick 3
KINGS@COYOTES 1/22/11 Quick 2
BRUINS@KINGS 1/24/11 Bernier 6
SHARKS@KINGS 1/26/11 Quick 4
FIVE DAY ALL-STAR BREAK
KINGS@WILD 2/1/11 Quick 3
KINGS@OILERS 2/2/11 Bernier 6
KINGS@FLAMES 2/5/11 Quick 4
KINGS@PENGUINS 2/10/11 Quick 5
KINGS@CAPITALS 2/12/11 Bernier 10
KINGS@FLYERS 2/13/11 Quick 3
KINGS@BLUEJACKETS 2/16/11 Quick 3
KINGS@RANGERS 2/17/11 Bernier 5
KINGS@ISLANDERS 2/19/11 Quick 3
KINGS@DUCKS 2/23/11 Quick 4
WILD@KINGS 2/24/11 Bernier 7
AVALANCHE@KINGS 2/26/11 Quick 3
REDWINGS@KINGS 2/28/11 Quick 2
COYOTES@KINGS 3/3/11 Bernier 7
CANUCKS@KINGS 3/5/11 Quick 5
STARS@KINGS 3/7/11 Quick 2
KINGS@REDWINGS 3/9/11 Quick 2
KINGS@BLUEJACKETS 3/11/11 Bernier 8
KINGS@STARS 3/13/11 Quick 4
KINGS@PREDATORS 3/15/11 Quick 2
BLUES@KINGS 3/17/11 Quick 2
DUCKS@KINGS 3/19/11 Bernier 8
FLAMES@KINGS 3/21/11 Quick 4
SHARKS@KINGS 3/24/11 Quick 3
AVALANCHE@KINGS 3/26/11 Bernier 8
KINGS@OILERS 3/29/11 Quick 5
KINGS@CANUCKS 3/31/11 Quick 2
STARS@KINGS 4/2/11 Quick 2
KINGS@SHARKS 4/4/11 Bernier 9
COYOTES@KINGS 4/6/11 Quick 4
KINGS@DUCKS 4/8/11 Quick 2
DUCKS@KINGS 4/9/11 Bernier 5
GAMES 26 56
AVG REST 7 3


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