tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27850362.post1774433988970897272..comments2024-01-06T07:18:43.593-08:00Comments on The Battle of California: Stars and the playoffs: what's changed and what hasn'tJames Mirtlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11221488913251638181noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27850362.post-89058336190317733412007-04-06T12:20:00.000-07:002007-04-06T12:20:00.000-07:00The Mattias Norstrom trade has huge playoff implic...The Mattias Norstrom trade has huge playoff implications for Dallas. He will not get a lot of headlines, but he will log those 18-20 minutes against the opponents first or second line. For Los Angeles to trade him within the division was a shock, especially if a poor record against Dallas keeps the Kings out of the playoffs next year. I think he might have 1 more year left at 4 million. Keeping Blake with his injury status is a Cloutier level gamble.<BR/><BR/>Dallas and Vancouver are two teams that can knock off anyone in the Western Conference.<BR/><BR/>Wednesday at Anaheim a few of us talked about Marty Turco, hard to pin all of those postseason losses on him when the entire team folded. I think the Norstrom trade was done to give him some help in front of the net.<BR/><BR/>We also talked about how cool it was to have two people covering the Kings on BOC. Keep up the cool work.PJ Swensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10263208264922939673noreply@blogger.com