GDT: 2023-24 Western Conference Quarter Finals LA Kings vs Edmonton Oilers @7:30pm 4/26/24 Series tied 1-1

[bouncesonly]

That 3 goal deficit shouldn't have happened in the 1st, the officiating didn’t help either. Special Teams were shit. Please use all that fire they had tonight into scoring goals on Sunday.

We got players dropping passing all day and night, we have other bros that cannot convert breakaways, or any other prime chances. Kings could have 105% xGF, but it's the Kings.....the team that can never put away their chances, since 2014...

 

[tny760]

When was the last time you saw Kopitar that hot after a call? 5 straight F- bombs then another 4 more.

i'm not sure which of cursing or breaking his stick over a post is him being more angry

 

[kingsfan28]

With that last pp, they are now 0-10. 7 total shots. 43 blocked/missed

 

[KingPuckChoo]

Blake, your time is coming

 

[Jericho111091]

Nah, their fans have a running list of every penalty they think should have been called against the team they are playing, dating back to games from the Cenezoic Era. If you ever think Edmonton did something wrong, their fans will pull one from the list for a "whataboutism" to make sure you know the Oilers are owed thousands of power plays.

The Edmonton Auditors

I wish the Kings were half as dirty as oil fans are convinced we are

 

[johnjm22]

Put Byfield on the PK.

His combination of speed and reach makes him uniquely qualified for it. Plus it changes things up and rests your 36 year old center.

Kings coaching staff had all season long to try and work him into it so they would have another option down the road. Short term thinking always f***s you.

 

[Live in the Now]

My theory is 11-7 wore these guys out. Talking forwards that is. Seems like all the shuffling has caught up to the boys. Maybe just me.

This is a good point and that's why other teams don't do this. Of course in many of the games it was also played like a 10-6 lineup. There's no method to the madness with any of this shuffling either. Of course you have to learn the tendencies of all your teammates. And then you do and guys who learn each other's tendencies wind up barely seeing the ice together. The shuffling also hasn't affected special teams one bit either. Players who play well together don't play with each other on the PP because our PP units absolutely don't change. We don't gain anything from any of this except the coach is too stupid to make his mind up and the GM is so feckless that he lets him do it. Or this is directed by the GM. I don't really give a shit anymore because it's stupid.

It's also cool when you shuffle the lines up just to have the players stand there in a 1-3-1.

 

[tny760]

I wish the Kings were half as dirty as oil fans are convinced we are

for real, this shit's like once in a million and they think it's every day

 

[GameNight]

SUNDAY Wish List:

Rittich in for Talbot
Thomas in for PLD
Clarke in for Roy

Roy has been exposed in this series and enough of PLD, he tried to play Nice Guy Eddie from Reservoir Dogs in the corner with Bouchard and the ref. "Daddy did you see that? He got me on the ground & he tried to F___ me!!"

 

[Choralone]

I wish the Kings were half as dirty as oil fans are convinced we are

Yeah. In their alternate universe the Kings slewfoot players ever other minute.

 

[kingsfan28]

Skinner gives up 27 and the Kings still can't win! #fireblake

 

[fsanford]

With that last pp, they are now 0-10. 7 total shots. 43 blocked/missed

If the give 2nd pp line more than 30 seconds I do think they could score

 

[johnjm22]

Say what you want about Kane, but he's a great villain IMO.

He really seems to embrace the role when he plays in LA.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

If the Kings were half as dirty as the rep given we'd be playing the Bakersfield Condors

I only wish they were that cool, god damn they make MIKEY sound like Scott Stevens with rabies and Trevor Moore like Shoresy

 

[AbsentMojo]

Say what you want about Kane, but he's a great villain IMO.

He really seems to embrace the role when he plays in LA.

Ill always like Kane a little bit due to his clocking of Matt Cooke as a rookie

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Pin this loss on Doughty and the Danault line. Talbot didn’t help either, but those four really f***ed the Kings over more than any Oiler tonight.

I welcome the house cleaning that’s about to come. The sooner this ends, the better.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

For next game

You HAVE to go to Rittich

You HAVE to split up Arvidsson and Moore somehow

I'd run Moore-Danault-Fiala and ARvidsson with PLD

 

[kingsfan28]

Say what you want about Kane, but he's a great villain IMO.

He really seems to embrace the role when he plays in LA.

He sure recovers fast. From down and out selling the call to dropping the gloves in mere seconds..

 

[bland]

Pin this loss on Doughty and the Danault line. Talbot didn’t help either, but those four really f***ed the Kings over more than any Oiler tonight.

I welcome the house cleaning that’s about to come. The sooner this ends, the better.

Roy was easily the worst player on the ice tonight

 

[Nasti]

Are the players still cooking?

 

[SherVaughn30]

Talbot was 1-1, 4.96 GAA, .867 SV% coming into this game. Tonight 34/40, 6 goals against and a .850 SV%! This is the worst numbers Talbot has ever put up in his playoff career!

Did you know Talbot is listed at 6'4" 200lbs? The way he plays I would have thought he was only 6'2". Rittich is a slightly bigger goalie, but sure has looked bigger in net making saves then when I watch Talbot play!

Talbot is running on fumes and Rittich is completely fresh!

Rittich during the season: 13-6-3, 2.15 GAA, .921 SV%
Talbot: 27-20-6, 2.50 GAA, .914 SV%

Talbot played over twice as many games, but Rittich didn't just play against garbage teams!

Rittich age 31, Talbot age 36...On the other side Skinner aint good till tonight, but he's only age 25!

 

[The Butcher]

I kind of feel bad for Kopitar and Doughty. They want to win, the effort is there, but they just can't. They're too old.

And even if they weren't too old, the supporting cast isn't good enough anyways.

If they want to win anything in the remainder of their careers it will have to be elsewhere.

Kempe is going to be quite a piece on a good roster one day also.

 

[bland]

He sure recovers fast. From down and out selling the call to dropping the gloves in mere seconds..

Can't blame him, it takes a second to assess after getting hit like that. I would LOVE to see any Kings player look for a pound of flesh after getting rocked.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Roy was easily the worst player on the ice tonight

Him and Gavrikov have also been a mess since Game 1.

 

[kingsfan28]

Roy was easily the worst player on the ice tonight

Did you not watch VA? He looked gassed after every 35 second shift, then had every shot blocked. Not even a factor.