GDT: 2020-21 season game 42 LA Kings vs Vegas Golden Knights @7:00pm 4/14/21

[Vamos Rafa]

Kopitar?

I thought Blake signed that?

 

[LAKings88]

How often do we have hear that the stretch pass is beating the Kings?

 

[kingsholygrail]

How often do we have hear that the stretch pass is beating the Kings?

Until the Kings stop letting it work.

 

[LAKings88]

It's like his seasons seem to go with how good the team is like other goalies.

It’s symbiotic of course but make a fn save dude.

 

[Ray Martyniuk]

This one was the worse though.

Love seeing fluky goals once in awhile its hilarious

 

[Sol]

Kings are worse without Carts

Just imagine Carter and Kubalik on the same line MMMM

 

[LAKings88]

Until the Kings stop letting it work.

Guess it’s gonna be awhile then.

 

[bland]

Finally somebody points out Brown's total lack of defensive awareness. Same mistake two games in the row leading directly to odd man rush goals but folks would rather blame the pinching defensemen instead of Derpy lazy coverages.

Thanks Babcock.

 

[kingsholygrail]

It’s symbiotic of course but make a fn save dude.

He did make some saves. That last goal all him, but if the Kings are going to let opponents do video game shit all night, not a single goalie in this league is going to have a good night.

 

[ScoreZeGoals]

What is a Grundstrom-Lizotte-AA line supposed to do?

Further make me question Tmac

 

[Bandit]

Finally somebody points out Brown's total lack of defensive awareness. Same mistake two games in the row leading directly to odd man rush goals but folks would rather blame the pinching defensemen instead of Derpy lazy coverages.

Thanks Babcock.

Dude stop. The D has the entire play in front of him. Should Brown be backing off? Sure. If he doesn’t for whatever reason, the D needs to use his f***ing eyes and not pinch like a lemming.

 

[The Butcher]

Can someone please explain to me why Cal isn't getting the majority of starts at this point? The only explanation i can muster is that they don't want to totally knock his confidence in by playing behind this abysmal team.

 

[HookKing]

It's like his seasons seem to go with how good the team is like other goalies.

You mean like 2012, where the team was dead last in goals until Lombardi swindled the dinner jackets?

 

[kingsfan28]

How often do we have hear that the stretch pass is beating the Kings?

When they stop letting it happen and the dmen stop doing stupid pinches that let it happen!

 

[LAKings88]

He did make some saves. That last goal all him, but if the Kings are going to let opponents do video game shit all night, not a single goalie in this league is going to have a good night.

Quick in his prime stole games. I love the dude but this goal and the Sharks goal sucked big time. Two games that had a chance to climb in the standings. Deflating to say the least. Not all on Quick but not all on the team in front either.

 

[LAKings88]

When they stop letting it happen and the dmen stop doing stupid pinches that let it happen!

I get it, it was rhetorical.

 

[bland]

Would you walk away from that money?

Yes. Easily.

This is the devil of longterm contracts and its something I have been on about for ten years with this team. I argued that Quick's deal was the worst of the lot and that he deserved $2.5 mil more per season with three fewer years even though it hurt the cap.

Everybody falters. Longterm contracts turn heroes into pariahs. You can't sustain that level of athleticism at his age and now he is going to be known as a problem until his deal is resolved. Not the way he deserves to be remembered.

 

[HookKing]

Why is MacDermid in the lineup?

 

[kingsholygrail]

Can someone please explain to me why Cal isn't getting the majority of starts at this point? The only explanation i can muster is that they don't want to totally knock his confidence in by playing behind this abysmal team.

TM has said it a million times. The schedule is compressed and he doesn't want to tire out of either of his goalies. Yes, some teams are running their goalies into the ground like Colorado with Grubauer, but they have a reason to do so.

 

[Bandit]

Can someone please explain to me why Cal isn't getting the majority of starts at this point? The only explanation i can muster is that they don't want to totally knock his confidence in by playing behind this abysmal team.

Cal is 7-11-4. Doesn’t matter who is in net, they’re losing.

 

[kingsholygrail]

Yes. Easily.

This is the devil of longterm contracts and its something I have been on about for ten years with this team. I argued that Quick's deal was the worst of the lot and that he deserved $2.5 mil more per season with three fewer years even though it hurt the cap.

Everybody falters. Longterm contracts turn heroes into pariahs. You can't sustain that level of athleticism at his age and now he is going to be known as a problem until his deal is resolved. Not the way he deserves to be remembered.

So you would tell your family that you're going to give up $9,000,000 because of your pride?

 

[HookKing]

TM has said it a million times. The schedule is compressed and he doesn't want to tire out of either of his goalies. Yes, some teams are running their goalies into the ground like Colorado with Grubauer, but they have a reason to do so.

That's bullshit. The schedule isn't anywhere nearly compressed enough to go for a roughly 50/50 arrangement.

 

[Sol]

Until the Kings stop letting it work.

According to some, Forbort was a good dman who was only ragged on for his draft position rather than the fact that he sucked at almost everything.

So, using their logic, Forbort would fix all those problems

 

[DoktorJeep]

I thought Blake signed that?

Naw, Deano got fired 16 months after signing Kopitar to that contract.

 

[tny760]

i'm not sure buying him out even saves the team much at this point since that contract was one of those frontloaded ones

i don't think there's much purpose served by him retiring and grosenick/villalta/whoever riding pine either

hopefully he takes it as a wakeup call and reinvents himself over the offseason