GDT: Gm#31 LA Kings vs Carolina Hurricanes @7:30

[fsanford]

Fun night, Star Wars night, and Quick was using all of his Jedi skills.
3 minutes in your own zone in O.T and don't give up a goal, clearly the force was strong in the Kings tonight.

Oh and the Star War's jerseys they auctioned tonight went for crazy dollars, Kings Care Foundation, made lots of dollars tonight, good for them.



And came out to my car tonight and windows were in tact.

 

[fsanford]

Why was Quick pissy?

He thought the Kings touched the puck along the boards, so whistle should have been blown at that point since there was a delayed penalty.
Was at the game it looked like a King touched, and tossed it toward the blue line

 

[kingsfan28]

Kopitar tied for 3rd in scoring.
Doughty tied for second in D scoring.
Back on the road where hopefully we can keep things rolling.

He had to use the Force to get through all the hooks and slashes when he scored.

 

[regulate]

He thought the Kings touched the puck along the boards, so whistle should have been blown at that point since there was a delayed penalty.
Was at the game it looked like a King touched, and tossed it toward the blue line

Kings touched the puck a couple of times briefly, but they did not control it. The refs were correct in not blowing the whistle.

 

[regulate]

We were outworked and outskated most of the night. Kings fortunate to come away with two points. Quick the difference once again. Just shows the only thing the prevent defense does is prevent you from winning in regulation.

 

[KingsFan7824]

-Finished 4th overall in 80-81, and had a guy at +82, and a guy at -44, on the same team.
-4th overall again in 88-89. Gretzky's first year, and Nicholls had his 70 goal season.
-Couldn't sustain it in 92-93. Finished middle of the pack. Then Gretzky put the team on his shoulders in the playoffs.
-Couldn't really sustain it in 13-14 either, then went on maybe the craziest playoff run of all time.
-Faded in the 2nd half in 15-16, finished with a whimper.

12-7-12 in regulation in 13-14, and 13-9-9 in regulation in 15-16. This year, they're 14-8-9 in regulation. 6 out of the 20 wins are in 3v3 OT or the SO. Not quite the same as the 80's or 90's, but I get why PR would throw that out there. Even if 3v3 can be considered somewhat normal play, they're still 2 wins short of 20 with the even more random SO. I get it though.

Still, a +82 and a -44. Crazy. Nobody else had a difference that big that year. But damn, the Winnipeg Jets back in 80-81. They had a -61, a -57, a -54, a -47, a -40, a -39, and it just keep going. They did have only 32 points as a team though, so it makes sense. Oddly enough, taking out OT/SO points, the Coyotes are on pace for 38 regulation points this year.

 

[onlyalad]

It's amazing that Torrey Mitchell made it to this level of hockey without ever handling a puck. What a success story.

8-0 since "the trade"
And tonight's game he had to really work his magic

 

[The Tikkanen]

Another entertaining game to watch. Again, hard to find legit complaints about this team, gotta tip my hat to Rob Blake, had some serious questions about his moves and his lack of moves and Blake has reminded me once again why I'm not the GM and just a guy who watches games on my couch.

 

[KopitarFAN]

20 of the next 29 on the road.

 

[HookKing]

20 of the next 29 on the road.

Good.

 

[KingsHockey24]

Kopitar is 3rd in league scoring only behind Stamkos and Kucherov.

Though I'm sure he'll have a stretch where he has like 2 points in 15 games as usual.

 

[KopitarFAN]

Kopitar is 3rd in league scoring only behind Stamkos and Kucherov.

Though I'm sure he'll have a stretch where he has like 2 points in 15 games as usual.

And he would still be around a PPG.

 

[kingsholygrail]

Quick is back to being a system goalie. Glorious.

 

[KingsFan7824]

Another entertaining game to watch. Again, hard to find legit complaints about this team, gotta tip my hat to Rob Blake, had some serious questions about his moves and his lack of moves and Blake has reminded me once again why I'm not the GM and just a guy who watches games on my couch.

While we are all just watching games on our couches, Blake's best moves were Kopitar, Brown, Kempe at least mitigating the loss of Carter, and Quick. Nobody had Kopitar producing at a 40 goal, 100 point level through the first 30 games. Did anyone think Brown, even in the best case scenario, would be on a 70 point pace? Don't beat yourself up too much. If this keeps up, the only question this year is, not whether, but how much of the future do you give up to try and win the Cup again?

 

[tny760]

Quick is back to being a system goalie. Glorious.

buddy thinks that sutter is still coach

that thread hurts my soul

 

[Little Psycho]

buddy thinks that sutter is still coach

that thread hurts my soul

I'm still reeling from the posts that claim Doughty and Subban are the same. There are so many clueless idiots on the main boards.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

I'm still reeling from the posts that claim Doughty and Subban are the same. There are so many clueless idiots on the main boards.

Then you go into a different thread and hear Subban is the 3rd/4th best d-man on Nashville, so by transitive property Josi, Subban, Ekholm, and maybe Ellis are all better than Drew Doughty.