The Los Angeles Kings look bad

[Uncle Scrooge]

Outscored 4-16 in their last 3 games, 2 games being against the powerhouses Senators and Islanders. 2-4-1 to start the season.

I only watched the game against the Jets and they didn't look very good, i think the good guys held them to under 20 shots.

I feel like the Kings are usually pretty feisty when they come home from a long road trip and need to snap a losing streak but instead they get pounded 7-2.

They started the season 11-2-2 last year with the same players and the same coach, except now they also have Kovalchuk who is tied for 2nd in points and have Carter healthy too. Sure Brown is out but with those two guys in they shouldn't be worse.

So, what's up? I sort of find it interesting how both the Kings and Blues came out of the gate firing on all cylinders last year and neither team have seem to fully realize it's a new season and points matter as much as they do in February.

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[LeafGrief]

In my mind, they are the poster children for "no depth"

 

[Atas2000]

The team looks like they are skating in mud. There has to some drastic change.

 

[Kale Hulls]

Losing Quick has hurt the team a bit so far and not having Brown(who was a huge contributor last season) has also hurt the offense. Kovalchuk still has had some moments but so far he's been pretty slow and not as effective as of he could be. The fundamental reason they have been playing like trash though is the fact that Stevens is probably one of the worst coaches in the league.

 

[klozge]

The Kings don't look bad, they are bad.

 

[DFC]

They're too slow for the modern NHL. You have to be a really, really good player to get by without strong skating these days. The Kings have a lot of guys with good skill and mediocre skating. I've watched portions of (I think) all of their games this year, and a couple of full games, and teams are skating circles around them.

All that said, Kovalchuk looks really good to me.

 

[saintunspecified]

The Islanders have 2 elite skaters, but the rest of their lineup has to be among the slowest in the NHL. I don't think they had any advantage against the Kings in that department.

 

[Son of Petter]

Window = Firmly shut

 

[MightySelanne8]

They also went and paid a 4th liner Kovalchuk a good chunk of money, that guy is a clown nowaydays. And rest of the Kings team is just too slow, NHL is so fast paced now.

 

[DFC]

The Islanders have 2 elite skaters, but the rest of their lineup has to be among the slowest in the NHL. I don't think they had any advantage against the Kings in that department.

Maybe not, but almost everybody else does. Every game I've seen (including the Isles game, but I could easily be wrong about it), it looked like the Kings were too slow to compete.

 

[King'sPawn]

Bad players and bad coaching. They need an enema.

I'm a Kings fan and have no qualms admitting it.

 

[HowDareYou]

The coach lost the room, that said the Kings are need a real legit offensive minded coach

 

[CantHaveTkachev]

just noticed Kopitar has 2 goals and that's it...crazy!

it's early still...the combo of a healthy Quick/Doughty/Kopitar/Carter should be enough to keep them in contention all year IMO

 

[McRobbiezyg]

Remember when last year the LA kings were the poster child for revamping their roster for the new speedy NHL.. ahhhh good times

 

[Shockmaster]

They're too slow for the modern NHL. They need to stop living in 2012.

 

[LeafFever]

Kings are the oldest and slowest team in the NHL. They won't make the playoffs.
Doughty resigned with LA, but he'll have to play through a long rebuild.

 

[LeafFever]

The coach lost the room, that said the Kings are need a real legit offensive minded coach

But they don't have the talent to play that way.

 

[Big McLargehuge]

Stevens is a bad head coach and that's an ugly roster...none of this surprises me.

 

[ffh]

I guess button was right after all after watching last night only 2 years and 75 games to go.

 

[Riddum]

But HF Told me that Kovalchuk was going to decimate the league, based on that nice pre-season goal vs a Defender who has a couple AHL games of experience.

 

[Matty Sundin]

We are really not gonna know where teams are at until end of Novemeber

 

[Brobust]

Their forwards suck so bad outside of Kopitar and Kempe.

 

[member 298589]

The Kings don't look bad, they are bad.

Yep. Unfortunately I need to echo this. Slow and skill level drops off sharply.

 

[generalshepherd141]

No depth and Quick being injured is probably gonna kill your season.
They should trade the guys they can this year and begin the rebuild, they tried to hang on to contention for too long.

 

[Sam Spade]

Did people think the Kings would be good this season?