The BBKL Insider wroteCOLONTo be fair, starting 2 starters is certainly "not out of the gms control"
I'm not sure going into this week Lehtonen could really be considered a #1G (i mean, as far as THIS week goes) over Enroth, as he lost his last start with a 900%. So personally I was expecting them to split starts this week.
Anyway, my point is:
The lineup was NOT at all illegal when dressed. It became illegal during the week, without the GM being allowed to address it and avoid it.
And it's not like he could have known Hackett and Enroth would have been given 0 starts on the week...
so he should have only dressed the G of the worst team of the league without using his better G for fears something might happen and a CC decision might follow?
or his G that would have probabkly only played 1 game because his other G could have played 4 games out of 4?
why should he cut his chances short because of something that, even in case it happens, is uncertain what consequences it would bring?
In fact, I went back looking for past discussions over this topic, and the only one I could find had a various of possible outcomes left open.
The one specific discussion is 4 yrs old. I think there has been at least another case like this in more recent yrs, but couldn't find any topic addressing it.
4 yrs ago, AND under the limitaions CBS brought (i.e. impossible to take out only the latter games of a G without erasing all his stats accumulated on the week), these are the options that were suggested:
1- we are not "pulling" a goalie after his games. we are simply putting a freeze on his goalie stats AFTER the 4th game is complete. all games after that won't count towards this weeks stats. Once the 4 game is done his goalie stats are DONE for the week.
2- the GM pick before 4th & 5th games
3- less GP goalie is removed
4- Goalie who starts 5th games is removed
5- Goalie receiving unexpected extra starts is removed
#1:
at the time, that was deemed complicated cause it was not possible to do it on CBS and would have needed to copy and past stats on the forum, having a different outcome than on CBS as a result. I think it would be done without problems on Fantrax.
#2:
too late for that, Luke would have needed to make that decision before the 5th game, and there is the valid argument against it as a permanent rule that it would encourage teams to get/keep 2 starters. Albeit to a lesser extent, this may apply as well to #1 as a permanent rule.
#3:
in this case, this would mean removing all Lehto's stats
#4:
this seems odd, especially when one gets 5th and the other a 6th
#5:
in this case it would be unclear which goalie received unexpected starts. Lindback certainly did, so you would take his stats away, but as I said myself above, an argument could be made that Lehtonen starting the 1st game of this week was not necessarily the most probable scenario.
There may also be the argument that since during the RS I think some team already had more than 4 and nothing happened, the same should apply here. But even if I'm not sure and I couldn't find quick evidence of that, I seem to remember at some point in the past we made a separation between the cases of RS and PO.
One thing for sure, in that CC 4yrs old thread the one thing clear was that teams would not be allowed to keep stats from more than 4 G games.
That probably changed for the RS later on, but I don't remember that to be changed for playoffs.
