Game Headline: “If you thought the Kings solved their ‘O’ problems, you’d be wrong.”
Congratulations to no one. The closest anyone came to the correct score was Meg, V, try and me. Everyone fell into the ‘minus’ category tonight.
Scoring: There are 3 ways to score:
1) Wins and losses.
2) Plus/Minus
3) And the ‘exacta’ which is predicting the exact score of the game.
*The plus/minus works like this: You get a -1 for every goal you’re off. If you’re off by 2 goals for one team and 1 goal for the other, then that’s a -3. You get a +1 for predicting one correct score, you get a +1 for predicting the total number of goals correct, OR you get a +3 for predicting the exact score (exacta).
Sorting is done by wins/losses first, then plus/minus and then the exacta could end up being the tie-breaker.
NOTE: If you see any errors, please email me or comment here.
| Game 2 of 32 | Blues 1-0 | Win/Loss | Plus/Minus | Exacta |
| wavesinair | Blues 2-1 | 2-0 | -2 | |
| Meg Jarrell | Blues 2-1 OT | 2-0 | -2 | |
| trytodethroneus | Blues 2-1 OT | 2-0 | -2 | |
| variable | Blues 2-1 | 2-0 | -3 | |
| Kingsfanone | Blues 3-1 | 2-0 | -4 | |
| McSorleyfan | Blues 2-1 SO | 2-0 | -5 | |
| Forum Gold | Blues 4-2 | 2-0 | -8 | |
| Cynic | Kings 3-1 | 1-1 | -3 | |
| 40YearKingsFan | Kings 3-1 | 1-1 | -3 | |
| Matt Murray | Kings 2-1 | 1-1 | -3 | |
| Dominick | Kings 3-2 | 1-1 | -5 | |
| Happy Lappy | Kings 3-2 | 1-1 | -5 | |
| Quisp | Kings 7-3 | 1-1 | -6 | 1 |
| Jon Gillette | Kings 4-2 | 1-1 | -6 | |
| KC23 | Kings 3-2 | 1-1 | -6 | |
| CB14 | Blues 3-1 | 1-1 | -6 | |
| Hipcheck | Blues 3-1 | 1-1 | -6 | |
| Bobby Scribe | Kings 8-1 | 1-1 | -8 | |
| DetroitSons1952 | Kings 4-3 OT | 1-1 | -9 | |
| The Royal Half | Kings 4-2 | 0-2 | -6 | |
| LBLocal | Kings 4-3 OT | 0-2 | -9 |
I expect as this goes deeper the question will be, “Who is the least negative?” It’s easier to lose points than recover them. That being said, it was very much a defensive battle as we expected. Lets get 2 in Carolina!
@McSorleyfan:
Yep. Ultimately it will be akin to playing golf at The Masters. If you can get to ‘par’ you’re doing really, really good.
Boy, talk about having a difficult time finding “O”, is that better than being good at bation? I think not.
I had a better time at the theater seeing “Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” than I would’ve had watching this game! Glad we got out of the house & I had my phone on mute!
Maybe Nicholls should’ve played?
Well, THAT didn’t go as planned. 40Year & I were thinking the same way. Piss poor neutral zone play and Doughty taking the man instead of the angle (On the wrong side of the ice no less, per Sutter) cost us this game. Never ONCE did we back off the Blues in this game because of neutral zone progression! We kept slowing the game down when we had possession in our own zone and allowed the Blues to continually regroup their forecheck.
Pitiful. Stoll is gone by the deadline for a gallon of milk and a package of Chips Ahoy! We have at least 8 million+ coming off the cap next year FOR SURE! Can anyone guess the other one since I’ve mentioned one? It goes with milk as well and causes back pain in some people.
@Cynic:
Not good when you’re already looking to next year! Ouch.
Kings 2-1 in OT
Sorry I couldn’t get my “WAG” in today, I was commited to a team golf match and we really poured on the offense and kicked butt today down at Canyon Lake CC. Thanks Waves.