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Originally Posted by CSharp
Meh, Kings/Sutter does this every year to sneak into 8th place to surprise the teams ahead of them. Still lots of time to make up ground. Just watch, after the trading deadline, they'll be pretty strong and unbeatable. Sutter's strategy is to get the team ready for the playoffs at the right time. Unlike the Sharks team that gets all of their points at the beginning of the season, the Kings gets on a roll and start peaking after the second round and going into the finals. He tried to do that with the Flames, but by the time they get to the playoffs, everyone is hurt and/or there's not enough depth to get through the first round. Kings are a talented team and have the size depth to push them into the playoffs and further.
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Do you think this is an actual strategy of Darryl's? That seems super risky to me. You could be right, not saying your not, but I would think you'd play to win and prepare the same every night.
And I was going to post it in my OP but I wasn't sure and didn't want to put false information up there, I think Textcritic just said it, even with the low seeds LA had, they were comfortably in that 7-9 range pretty much all the way through and at the key times. Don't think they've been this far behind before. (Again, could be wrong, but that's what I remember)