GDT: 2023-24 season game 72 LA Kings vs Edmonton Oilers @6:00pm 3/28/24

[BaileyFan]

Oilers are going to regret winning this game in regulation when they’re playing the Knights instead of an easy first round matchup because they pushed us to the wildcard.

 

[sinister6000]

Calgary has lost 5 games in a row. That losing streak is going to come to an end on Saturday.

I wouldn't be surprised!

 

[sinister6000]

Next game scratch kaliyev for lewis

I was surprised that they put him in the lineup.

 

[ScoreZeGoals]

It doesn't matter who the Kings play in the playoffs, this roster is not beating a good team in a 7 game series sitting in a 1-3-1. There is a complete disconnect between roster construction (which has many questionable decisions itself), and coaching

 

[Statto]

Kaliyev gets to play...its been tough for him having to play his Off-Wing,not many players can make the adjustment and succeed...I would not be surprised if he's dealt come July 1st or perhaps at the 2024 draft

Kings are going to be in tough tonight because the Oilers will be looking for revenge from the beatdown the Kings gave them last time round

He’s always played his off wing and has said he prefers it.

 

[LAKings88]

Kings are 1-2-1 against the Oilers this year.

This game didn't tell us anything we didn't already know; the Oilers are better than the Kings. Not by a huge margin, but enough to make our chances of beating them in a PO series relatively low.

Oilers are 3 for 12 on the PP against us this year. 25%. Their overall PP is 27.7% so I guess we're doing okay in that regard.

Scored 4-4 last night and like 15 seconds into their pp the last couple games.

The victory was big save standing on his head.

The goal that really broke them was With 15 seconds left in the 2cd.

LA just doesn’t dictate.

 

[LAKings88]

Oiler centric but a good rundown.

 

[King'sPawn]

He’s always played his off wing and has said he prefers it.

Most snipers prefer to play their off wing as they have a better shooting angle at the net.

 

[Shellz]

I don’t know if I hate the Kings or Oilers more right now. They’re both annoying.

 

[fivehole32]

Scored 4-4 last night and like 15 seconds into their pp the last couple games.

The victory was big save standing on his head.

The goal that really broke them was With 15 seconds left in the 2cd.

LA just doesn’t dictate.

It's the whole hockey axiom of "You can't give up a goal in the first or last minute of a period."

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

Oilers are going to regret winning this game in regulation when they’re playing the Knights instead of an easy first round matchup because they pushed us to the wildcard.

4d chess baby

can't beat us if we're not there

jesus christ if i didn't hate the kings so much the insufferable canadian media would be so fun to smash

 

[Johnny Utah]

Bullied by the Oilers again. Nice job Blake.

 

[kilowatt]

its ok dubois will wake up and beat them once the playoffs roll around

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

The PLD trade is Blake selling all his Amazon stock in 2019 for dogecoin

 

[BaileyFan]

Yeah, Kings are really “ruining hockey” with their system that’s gotten them to be an annoying speed bump to the team that was an annoying speed bump to the actual Cup champs in consecutive years. Its a copycat league, look out!

 

[Bandit]

Looks like it's a good thing I missed this one. And LMAO at everyone crying about how the Kings play as if they invented the f***ing 1-3-1. Go cry on your momma's titties.

 

[AbsentMojo]

1-3-1 is good for an untalented soft team to hang with better teams. I guess thats what management thinks of the roster they built.

In a sport as exciting as hockey, to make "boring" your identity / first principal, to me is counterintuitive and an epic fail

 

[BigKing]

Well, they still showed more fight on the physical side of things v. last year's Anderson concussion game but they looked just as dangerous offensively, which was not dangerous at all.

If they wind up with them in the playoffs again, I would not be surprised to see it only last five games this time. Barring an injury to McDavid or Cry, they can't hang.

Seriously though, we still had an Oiler take a huge and dirty run at one of our top pairing defensemen less than two minutes into the game: just like last year. You'd love to see Englund just go hog on someone but he's signing a death sentence for the rest of the roster if he decides to cross the line since they will be summarily executed out there.

 

[DoktorJeep]

It’s gotta be Kopitar and Doughty that insist on being a defense first team right?

They won that way and are the highest paid players.

I remember when Stevens was the coach, the initial message was playing more uptempo and then it fell back to defense first. Same with McLellan. He was talked up as the guy who led SJ to one of the best offenses in the league. After a couple lottery picks, it was back to defense first.

We see it work in short stretches, but fall off because most top players aren’t guys who want to be known mostly for defense, with offense as a nice to have as long as the team is winning.

If you’re a talented offensive guy who is making less than guys who preach one thing but can’t win when it counts, then I get why you can’t play defense first all the time.

 

[SettlementRichie10]

The only thing “soul crushing” about the Kings system is that their own fans are forced to watch it.

 

[chris kontos]

If anyone wants to see a 1-3-1 work pretty effectively watch the ny rangers

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

Yeah the Kings are ruining hockey...for their fans

but i guess the louder the outcry maybe the more likely AEG sees it along with the results and are like "we're spending 50m over the cap for a boring ass shitty first round exit year after year?"

 

[chris kontos]

For a 1-3-1 to work effectively a team needs consistently good goaltending and killer defensemen notsmall puck moving scoring d men playing on thier off sides because mgmt drafted all r handed small d men.
Also someone has to score goals, because in hockey games arent won 0-0.
As an anology let us turnnback to the ny rangers. Cris krieder cant give a rats ass about playing d but he is a puck tipping scoring wizard so he is allowed to play weak defense because he scores.
I dont think the present brain trustunderstands this.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

I mean what a clusterf*** this org is, right

if you want to play 1-3-1 why cheapass on goaltending and go all out on small waterbug forechecking forwards and right handed mostly offensive defenseman and mid sized vanilla LHD

I like our players and picks but you almost couldn't hand pick a worse roster for the vision

#freeKaliyev