05-01-2020, 12:28 PMJT3 Wrote: At the end of the day we don't even want any suspensions or further punishments to NOLA. All we want is the chance to beat NOLA fair and square, which we likely would have by admission of your own coaches who exploited the rules in the first place.

Taken from Frith's apology thread:

Quote:Note from slash- of course we didn't want to disadvantage LA in a way that is against the rules, but we clearly needed a shakeup or we are likely not taking a single game in the series. Like frith, I was oblivious to the unique forward rule and thought that the game limitations were our only rules. I found we couldn't explicitly put Williams or Manius on the third line, but leaving it blank would be able to get them out there to help the young guys. Whether or not I agree with the rulebook is moot, the rules are the rules, and I aplogize to Joe and TDZ (who really didn't know wtf we did with the lines), and the panthers, and our team, who earned a hard fought win that will be tainted by this mix up

A fair series has likely been robbed from us due to the fact that HO glossed over the issue too quickly with a light punishment and allowing playoffs to progress without a re-sim. As far as I have heard a re-sim isn't even possible at this point due to how the new index and FHM. So yeah, I'm a bit pissed off that our best chance at a cup in 10-15 seasons may well have been taken from us because of this.

At least you're only down 2. You aren't out yet.