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Afternoon Line- Darryl Sutter

11/18/2014 at 2:43pm EST

On the report that the pre-overtime dry scrape may be scrapped:

... Well, it’s a new rule, and the benches aren’t big enough for everybody to sit on, so there are guys out on the ice. I mean, when you look at the rules when everybody’s supposed to be on the bench and you come out for the period, there are some teeams that come out and there’s 20 guys skating around. I was thinking once in a while we should just tell the other team let’s all do figure eights. Every commercial timeout. It used to be it’d be a full scale line brawl if you did it. Now there’s guys skating all over, there’s guys doing calisthenics, there’s yoga. If you’re in the crowd you get lots more than a hockey game. Three time outs, there’s 18 guys rolling their yoga mats out there. Just watch. It used to be ‘Oh, only five guys on the ice,’ the officials would say. Now there’s 15....

-Darryl Sutter, head coach of the Los Angeles Kings, post-practice today. There is more to this quote and more Kings talk from Jon Rosen of LA Kings Insider.

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