GDT: 2023-24 Western Conference Quarter Finals LA Kings vs Edmonton Oilers @7:00pm game 2 Edmonton leads 1-0

[DoktorJeep]

The consensus around the Kings and league wide media is that the Kings players and coaches need to stick to the identity tonight.

This game really needs to be a statement performance by Kopitar and Doughty. These two players are being given the opportunity to change the narrative. They must turn into killers.

All the money is on the line. So let’s see if they are up to the task. It’s no longer good enough for everyone to be good while no one is great.

 

[Schrute farms]

Sure seems like this is a must win tonight. Winning 4 of 5 remaining games seems completely unrealistic.

 

[BaileyFan]

Sure seems like this is a must win tonight. Winning 4 of 5 remaining games seems completely unrealistic.

Game 4 will be the one and only must win game this team will play all season.

 

[Schrute farms]

What's annoying is going thru several years of a rebuild, only to result in: a boring team, who constantly gets bullied & push around, and is a backend playoff team that can't get out of the 1st round.

 

[Choralone]

Kings look really intimidated by Edmonton bodies and sticks. If they can't fight through them to get to the net, there's not much hope. The only hope we have is that their goaltending looks bad - but if we're just going to throw perimeter shots on him, that goaltending will be good enough.

 

[Surf Nutz]

We got this guys, relax!

Not sure who peed in your Prozac.

 

[Sausages]

I don't hate this team, especially after living through the calamities of the 90's, and, yes, I freely admit I don't hate Blake and have certain sympathies with the circumstances/stages he has had to guide the team through.

The problem is that on watching the competition it's obvious that the Kings need 2 more gears.

Tonight will be one of the most important games for some years, IMHO. Show up and prove something or buckle and fade to black.

 

[Sol]

I don't hate this team, especially after living through the calamities of the 90's, and, yes, I freely admit I don't hate Blake and have certain sympathies with the circumstances/stages he has had to guide the team through.

The problem is that on watching the competition it's obvious that the Kings need 2 more gears.

Tonight will be one of the most important games for some years, IMHO. Show up and prove something or buckle and fade to black.

Like what?

 

[ru4reals]

I picked kings in 4. Every lost I will add another game. Kings in 5. Lol. We got this.

 

[DoktorJeep]

Like what?

We’ve had the worst rain since Rogie was our #1G. Imagine the havoc that wreaks on the surf conditions. Even if beach volleyball is your plan B, the humidity alone has killed 25% of your expected days on the sand.

First Vegas sweeping us in their first year of existence.Then COVID wiping out easy gate revenue. Luc and Rob have suffered way more than any other millionaire in SoCal.

Now, you look at that POS Yanetti who was trusted, despite working for a loser like the previous manager. He screws up BLuc’s championship window by saying that Byfield is better than Stutzle. Somehow AEG is convinced a DEL kid is not ideal.

And what does management get for sticking their neck on the line. Well they get a max of 7 games of playoff revenue in 8 years. That’s one thing that manages to catch Uncle Phil’s attention. Hopefully

 

[chris kontos]

Were gonna slip em the el segundo sausage tonite. Whats the wurst that can happen?

 

[shuchukfan]

my team please win because i live you and when your sad i cry. Breathe win relax live repeat. First in best dressed naked. please be whiskey jpeg pgt

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

I’m 100% with you on the myopia. I think a part of it for me is realizing the Lombardi years were NOT some magnificent turning of the tide, but a total anomaly. As soon as the old guard could get rid of him, they did so, and less than a decade later we’re right back to the same crap as the early to mid-2000s.

I would say we could look forward to Blake getting fired, but we all know Bergevin will take over and Luc will still be sitting slackjawed atop the iron throne. Maybe a change in ownership shakes things up one day. Who knows. Sucks.

That's the part that hits hardest

Luc and Blake in particular have had front row seats to all of this for literally decades and after doing absolutely nothing but failing here time after time they have the arrogance to think they can do better by being handed Lombardi's work on a silver platter and they STILL flushed it all down the shitter. They deserve it ALL blowing up in their faces. Unfortunately, the fans don't.

I don't hate this team, especially after living through the calamities of the 90's, and, yes, I freely admit I don't hate Blake and have certain sympathies with the circumstances/stages he has had to guide the team through.

The problem is that on watching the competition it's obvious that the Kings need 2 more gears.

Tonight will be one of the most important games for some years, IMHO. Show up and prove something or buckle and fade to black.

However one feels about Blake is irrelevant

he objectively inherited a better team condition than any GM in LA Kings history and now a decade later we have 0 playoff series wins, capped out with hardly any cheap youth on the way because picks and prospects have been traded chasing rainbows, and the guy to put you over the top put up less points than the ones you just ran out of town on a year in year out basis.

 

[chris kontos]

The oil's comin off the chorizo tonite boys!

 

[Shellz]

The oil's comin off the chorizo tonite boys!

I had chorizo in my burrito

 

[jgs]

It is very hard to think that The Kings will win this series because the past few years the Oilers have owned the Kings and this first game was no different. Kings will be lucky to win one game in this series.

 

[Master Yoda]

We got this guys, relax!

Not sure who peed in your Prozac.

We're pretty relaxed. No expectations

 

[KINGS17]

The consensus around the Kings and league wide media is that the Kings players and coaches need to stick to the identity tonight.

This game really needs to be a statement performance by Kopitar and Doughty. These two players are being given the opportunity to change the narrative. They must turn into killers.

All the money is on the line. So let’s see if they are up to the task. It’s no longer good enough for everyone to be good while no one is great.

Eight years and $80 million later and still not a single playoff series win.

 

[Surf Nutz]

I had chorizo in my burrito

I think you usually much prefer it in your taquito!

 

[Sol]

Which goalie is taking the shaft today ?

 

[LAKings88]

This playoff is so strange. No nerves. No pins and needles. Just resignation.

 

[Surf Nutz]

Which goalie is taking the shaft today ?

[Stuart Skinner Playoff Stats | StatMuse]

 

[Lt Dan]

The Kings need to break the Oilers' Hyman tonight

 

[kingsfan28]

Gav better have his ass planted on the left post all night and not let those easy goals in..

 

[shuchukfan]

I've done my part.