GDT: 2023-24 Season game 4 LA Kings vs Minnesota Wild @5:00pm 10/19/23

[kingsboy11]

Los Angeles Kings(1-1-1, 3pts, 3rd in Pacific) vs Minnesota Wild (2-1-0, 4pts, 2nd in Central)
Xcel Engery Center | St. Paul, MN
TIME: 5:00pm PT | TV: Bally Sports West RADIO: I Heart Radio App



Regular Season Stats

*Lines subject to change*
**The website I use to get these doesn't have all of our players yet**

Scratched: Jaret Anderson-Dolan. Tobias Bjornfot
Covid: N/A
Injured: Viktor Arvidsson

Covid: N/A



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[Sol]

Would be a nice change of pace for the Kings to build off a game. Hopefully the rare full 60 min game makes an appearance

 

[GoldenBearHockey]

Would be a nice change of pace for the Kings to build off a game. Hopefully the rare full 60 min game makes an appearance

Agreed, but I'd take a 40 min game like Tuesday over a 60 min game like the opener

 

[Axl Rhoadz]

Would be a nice change of pace for the Kings to build off a game. Hopefully the rare full 60 min game makes an appearance

Hey look at that, we are in agreement.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

Games in Minnesota are always a circus and I expect no different tonight

 

[johnjm22]

I recall last time in Minny Fiala was buzzing around all over the place. He's been surprisingly low energy so far this season. Hopefully this sparks him.

Faber is guaranteed to get a point tonight, so we start the game down 1.

Hopefully Copely is better than last game.

Edit: I see Talbot is starting.

 

[Schrute farms]

Kings win 5-4 with Fiala getting the first and last GW goal.
Faber scores a goal too.

 

[johnjm22]

The Wild's entire 2nd pairing on defense is King's draftees.

 

[Bandit]

Prepared for Faber to take the Kings back to bitch school.

 

[johnjm22]

Said it last time, I'll say it again.

I really like our lineup. So solid.

A nice mix of young players and vets.

 

[Lt Dan]

 

[Axl Rhoadz]

Said it last time, I'll say it again.

I really like our lineup. So solid.

A nice mix of young players and vets.

Just need to figure out who Talbot is....is he game 1 Talbot or game 3. I suppose if it's somewhere in the middle, we should be good.

 

[Sol]

I really hope that Faber is -10 so we don’t have to have ten pages of why Faber was the second coming.

 

[Schrute farms]

Just need to figure out who Talbot is....is he game 1 Talbot or game 3. I suppose if it's somewhere in the middle, we should be good.

Game 4 Talbot
I suspect both our goalies will be constantly up & down throughout the year. I'd be surprised if either of them settled into a constant long-haul performance that can be expected. Just hope it's more ups than downs.

 

[BigBrown]

A win tonight would make me feel pretty good. A loss would make me feel pretty bad.

Keep an eye out for more of my riveting commentary.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

The Wild's entire 2nd pairing on defense is King's draftees.

Kings should have known they had something in Middleton when he wasn't only a 7th round pick but the last pick in the whole draft

they're nails there!

 

[bland]

The Wild's entire 2nd pairing on defense is King's draftees.

That listed lineup hasn't matched their first few games, they had been playing Brodin and Faber together.

 

[johnjm22]

That listed lineup hasn't matched their first few games, they had been playing Brodin and Faber together.

Yeah. Faber has actually been their #1 dman. He leads all players in TOI per game.

He has the potential to surpass all expectations of what his ceiling was.

 

[yankeeking]

I hope they stay with 84-21 and 3-5 the majority of the time , it made for less closing my eyes time, defense looked solid last game

 

[Obvious Fabertism]

That listed lineup hasn't matched their first few games, they had been playing Brodin and Faber together.

Hope you don’t mind me jumping in from the Wild board briefly. They moved to these pairings last game to try and have two usable pairings instead of only one with the Spurgeon and now Goligoski injuries. Merrill, Goligoski, Addison and Middleton (at least he’s netfront passable) are all significantly below the play level that the Wild usually expect from their top 4 D. It says a whole lot that they trust Faber to carry his own pair already.

You guys are going to have some good scoring opportunities tonight, you have the forward depth to do some damage against the Wild D right now.

 

[RayMartyniukTotems]

Like to see a 10-9 Barn Burner...of course the Good Guys Win...Kempe Hatty,Fiala Hatty,Dubois 2 and Kopi 2 with Byfield with the Game winner with 0.1 left in Regulation

 

[Steve Zissou]

Kings should have known they had something in Middleton when he wasn't only a 7th round pick but the last pick in the whole draft

They would have only known that if they had Photoshopped that glorious stache on him.

 

[King'sPawn]

Kings should have known they had something in Middleton when he wasn't only a 7th round pick but the last pick in the whole draft

they're nails there!

Not to "well akshully"...

But I remember watching him in the OHL during his draft year and I was making a thread about draft prospects on LGK. I called him out as a player the Kings should draft.

Then again I thought they should have taken him with the second round pick and I got annoyed they took his junior teammate Alex Lintuniemi instead. Didn't think he'd fall to the 7th. Whoops.

 

[bland]

Hope you don’t mind me jumping in from the Wild board briefly. They moved to these pairings last game to try and have two usable pairings instead of only one with the Spurgeon and now Goligoski injuries. Merrill, Goligoski, Addison and Middleton (at least he’s netfront passable) are all significantly below the play level that the Wild usually expect from their top 4 D. It says a whole lot that they trust Faber to carry his own pair already.

You guys are going to have some good scoring opportunities tonight, you have the forward depth to do some damage against the Wild D right now.

Thanks for the heads-up. I wasn't able to catch the Habs game, and your own GDT has them paired on your top unit so I assumed they were keeping them together.

For some reason the Wild and Ottawa always seem to have the most eventful games for LA, hoping tonight follows suit.

 

[bland]

Yeah. Faber has actually been their #1 dman. He leads all players in TOI per game.

He has the potential to surpass all expectations of what his ceiling was.

His performance against the Leafs on Saturday was on par with what we saw out of Doughty in his first year. Not saying he will put up similar numbers, but the impact is very similar.