GDT: 2019-20 GM#8 LA Kings vs Calgary Flames @7:00pm 10/19/19

[tny760]

Toffoli on pace for 31 goals. Hopefully he keeps it up and we get a 1st for him.

haven't seen that type of goal from him in years either. hope he doesn't vanish for the next 20 games

 

[Whaddagoal]

Kovalchuk in Ovechkin's office. It's a good place to be.

Are you certain that it wasn't Kovy's office at the very beginning though?

(long time Kovy fan....)



(old video time hasn't been kind to video quality, but lots of slapshot pings!)

That goal last night, looked like vintage slapper from the old days.

 

[The Tikkanen]

Kings with MacDermid: 3-0-0, 15GF, 8GA.
Kings without MacDermid: 0-5-0, 9GF, 24GA

it’s simple really

MVP, MVP, MVP!

 

[The Tikkanen]

Man I miss Jay Miller, and Marty McSorley. Those guys didn't care about getting suspended. If you touched Gretzky, McSorley would run amuk.

I was thinking last night how nice it would be to have McSorley and Baumgartner for a game like that.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

I was thinking last night how nice it would be to have McSorley and Baumgartner for a game like that.

Or Tom Webster.

 

[sinister6000]

Giordano looked like Super Fly Jimmy Snuka.

 

[Buddy The Elf]

The entire Flames team on the ice when Doughty hit Tkachuk were a collective bowl of chicken shit. What kind of p***y do you have to be to punch someone on the ice being held by the official? This Kings team is obviously not very tough but at least they're not gutless like the Flames. They really should consider bringing James Neal back.

 

[Sleeping Dog]

The entire Flames team on the ice when Doughty hit Tkachuk were a collective bowl of chicken ****. What kind of ***** do you have to be to punch someone on the ice being held by the official? This Kings team is obviously not very tough but at least they're not gutless like the Flames. They really should consider bringing James Neal back.

Don't think that EDM will take Lucic back for Neal. The Flammos are stuck with Milan.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

The entire Flames team on the ice when Doughty hit Tkachuk were a collective bowl of chicken ****. What kind of ***** do you have to be to punch someone on the ice being held by the official? This Kings team is obviously not very tough but at least they're not gutless like the Flames. They really should consider bringing James Neal back.

I used to think I've never seen as mentally weak a team as the post-VGK-series Kings, then this year's Calgary team came along.

Tkachuk is a cariacature of whatever lion Calgary fans paint him to be these days.

 

[onlyalad]

Can we play Calgary all the time?

 

[Lt Dan]

Can we play Calgary all the time?

We may have woke them up. They looked completely different against Anaheim last night. Completely different

 

[tny760]

We may have woke them up. They looked completely different against Anaheim last night. Completely different

well duh, as the main board says, they're an elite team and the favorites in the west

 

[Frolov 6'3]

I like Kovy’s slapper more than Ovechkin’s.

It looks harder and more backswing.

Big Ovie fan too.

 

[lumbergh]

I like Kovy’s slapper more than Ovechkin’s.

It looks harder and more backswing.

Big Ovie fan too.

Ovechkin's windup is much more compact, but he generates tremendous velocity by using his entire body's momentum. When you watch him get a puck in his wheelhouse, you can see him transfer weight as he rotates his upper body. It's like watching Barry Bonds choke up on the bat. It's not all about how big it looks, it's about the control and use of the entire body, especially the lower body, to crush the puck.

Not knocking Kovalchuk's shot, it's just not as deadly.

 

[kings11]

Im really curious to see the type of message/lineup Mac throws out there the next time we play the Flaming Mangina's... MacD, Clifford, some tough guys from Ontario? brown needs to step the F up and crank Hob-ardo and someone/anyone needs to pay back Andersson for being a little bitch

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

well duh, as the main board says, they're an elite team and the favorites in the west

I like how there's ZERO possibility any of their guys overachieved last year and that it was actually a stepping stone to their primes despite one of the highest PDOs in the league and star players shooting ~5% over their career averages.

Almost every single one of their guys added 20 points to their totals and a few literally DOUBLED their production from year-to-year and they expected that to be a constant.

Then again, these are often the same people crowning the NYR "fastest rebuild ever" when they're lower than us in the standings and mocking the Pacific as being totally dead.

 

[YP44]

Or Tom Webster.

I was at a flames kings game in 1993 that ended with alot of penalties. I was kid so do not fully remember.

 

[YP44]

People at work are talking about a MacDermid hit on Bennett from Saturday. I missed the first 20 and do not remember a hit afterwords. I guess Bennett is injured but does anyone have a video link?

When I look I find the below. I guess MacDermid may just have Bennett's number

 

[Chazz Reinhold]

People at work are talking about a MacDermid hit on Bennett from Saturday. I missed the first 20 and do not remember a hit afterwords. I guess Bennett is injured but does anyone have a video link?

When I look I find the below. I guess MacDermid may just have Bennett's number

That one was the end of last season. I'm guessing the hit that hurt Bennett this past game was when MacDermid kneed him.

 

[YP44]

That one was the end of last season. I'm guessing the hit that hurt Bennett this past game was when MacDermid kneed him.

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Ya I know that was from last year. Thanks for posting this as I can look back at the game

 

[Chazz Reinhold]

Ya I know that was from last year. Thanks for posting this as I can look back at the game

The screenshot doesn't show it, but it was in the first period.

 

[tny760]

yeah he kinda stuck his knee out but they called it tripping