GDT: 2020-21 season Game 4 LA Kings vs Colorado Avalanche @7:00pm 1/21/21

[AzKing]

Kings are starting to figure out who to play and who to sit or move down. The results showed tonight.

 

[TruKingFan]

Our f***in’ first win of the season. <<group hug>>

 

[SufferingSelfCreated]

The Kings outplayed the Avs and deserved this win. Glad they got it. GKG

 

[fsanford]

Nice win. I panic'd when they went down by 2 team did not.

Getting Brown off that first line and getting Maatta off the 1st pairing turned a loss into a victory.

Maatta healthy scratch in St Louis please

 

[crassbonanza]

Kings are going to win this one 4-3, f*** it

My post 1st period prediction wasn't too far off!

 

[kingsboy11]

What a freaking win. That's more like it. If we didn't score on that 5 on 3 I was probably out of here.

Also never pair Maatta with Doughty ever again

 

[kingsfan28]

nice to finally get the first win.

 

[Kingspiracy]

AV some of that 4 2 bitches

 

[kingsholygrail]

Well done.

 

[DoktorJeep]

Better start to the game and found a way to come back from 2 down to get the win. Nice to see some improvement.

 

[ru4reals]

Kopi lumbers around for 60 minutes....2 more assists!!! Gotta love it.

 

[fsanford]

Kempe could have about 4 goals this year... He has found his game

 

[Little Psycho]

Kopi lumbers around for 60 minutes....2 more assists!!! Gotta love it.

He's an Emmy winner. He can do anything he wants.

 

[SlimCharles]

Also, happy birthday Quickie!

 

[apocalypse]

Vilardi's a beast.

 

[BringTheReign]

So many kings passes from the defense is awful.
Doughty and Maata are the only guys who can start the transition.
Anderson is brutal.

I feel like I saw the exact opposite. Doughty looked better this game, sure, but Anderson, Roy, and Walker all looked fine on outlets whereas Maatta was brutal until the 3rd.

 

[cyclones22]

Well looks like we have a new first pairing on D. Much better chemistry with Mikey and Drew.

 

[The Butcher]

In both games against the avs it looked early on like the team was going to get run out of the building but they fought and clawed back in both cases. Really proud of the guts they showed tonight.

Vilardi is going to be a really good hockey player.

 

[KingLB]

4 games in a row, proving 2 goal leads aren’t good enough...

 

[Mcsorley47]

Gabe looked good tonight! We need him to turn the page and emerge this year. Mikey looks calm AF too. Like the kids been playing for years already.

I just wanted one more high draft pick and have it be a d-men. I might not get my wish.

 

[Peter James Bond III]

Iafallo Kopitar Kempe
Athanasiou Vilardi Carter
Andersson Lizotte Brown
Moore JAD Grundstrom

Anderson Doughty
Bjornfot Roy
Clague Walker

 

[bland]

Vilardi's a beast.

He got a bit chippy for a bit, probably got away with a rough, then stayed dialed in for the rest of the night.

That, right there, is one of the biggest differences between the guys who make it and those who don't. Vilardi reached out and took it tonight, Amadio patiently waited for it to come. It usually doesn't.

 

[kilowatt]

Our defense:

Doughty 30:31
Anderson 25:12
Roy 18:15
Clague 14:52
Walker 14:00
Maatta 11:04

Of note, Doughty and Anderson played the same amount at even strength, Doughty had 5:25 of power play time.

Maatta was terrible, yikes.

Our offense:

Kopitar 24:53
Iafallo 19:44
Kempe 19:34
Carter 18:08
Brown: 14:34
Vilardi: 13:16
Lizotte: 13:16
Moore: 13:03
Amadio: 11:14
Andersson: 11:08
Grundstrom 10:53
Athanasiou: 10:09

I still think a lot of Kopitar's shifts need to go to Vilardi, but it was nice to see Vilardi out there with two minutes left taking the draw. Vilardi only played 11:00 at even strength, he needs to be up around 15:00 in my opinion.

Amadio was fine this game, surrounding him with better players than Wagner and Luff seemed to help. I still think he's the odd one out eventually, but he didn't hurt the team tonight. Get him off the power play though, he had one minute of power play time that could have been better elsewhere. Also, get Brown off the power play too, 4:05 on the power play? Yikes!

 

[Lt Dan]

No MacDermid, 1-0. Just saying.

No ginger either

 

[head eyes]

I missed last game because my power was out so this was my first time seeing Lias and I was really impressed. Excited to see him become more comfortable.
Clague I thought played a good game - made some nice offensive plays, only noticed one bad breakout pass.
Grundy was great as well.