GDT: 2020-21 season game 8 LA Kings vs Minnesota Wild @5:00pm 1/28/21

[kingsboy11]

Los Angeles Kings(3-2-2, 8pts, 4th in West) @ Minnesota Wild(4-3-0, 8pts, 6th in West)
Excell Energy Center| St. Paul, MN
TIME: 5:00pm PT | TV: FSW | RADIO: I Heart Radio App

SEASON STATS​

PP/PK	15th/8th	29th/3rd
Faceoffs	15th	28th
Leading Scorers	Anze Kopitar: 1 goals, 9 assists, 10 points	Joel Eriksson Ek: 4 goals, 2 assists, 6 points

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*Lines subject to change*
**The website I used to get these doesn't have all of our players yet**

Backup: Cal Petersen
Scratched: Austin Wagner, Olli Maatta
"Unfit to play": N/A
Injured: Martin Frk, Alex Turcotte

Injuries: Mats Zuccarello, Alex Stalock, Cam Talbot


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[Raccoon Jesus]

Starting to kind of like the baseball 'series' setup a little bit.

 

[Bandit]

Look on the bright side: After tonight 50% of our games with the Wild are over.

 

[kilowatt]

I wonder why JAD and Fagemo are still on the taxi squad. Certainly there are NHL guys we could have sitting instead?

 

[lumbergh]

Kale Clague looks like a henchman. For that matter so do MacDermid and Andersson.

 

[regulate]

I wonder why JAD and Fagemo are still on the taxi squad. Certainly there are NHL guys we could have sitting instead?

The biggest reason is $$$$. JAD and Fagemo are on entry level contracts. They are paid out on their AHL salary (two-way contract), which is 10X less while practicing with the NHL team on the taxi squad. If you sent Wagner (healthy scratch recently) to the taxi squad to practice, you would have to pay him his NHL salary even though he is not on the NHL roster (one-way contract), and have to pay the player that replaces him on the 23 man NHL roster their NHL pay instead of the AHL pay. So it's much more economically feasible to do it the way the Kings are. The reason players like JAD, Fagemo, Villalta and Alt are on the taxi squad while the team is on the ROAD, is staff obviously feels these players have the most pro experience and could step into an NHL game if the Kings needed to make changes due to the C-19 while traveling. If you are implying that the taxi squad players are better than the players on the 23 man NHL roster, you'll have to convince the coaching staff, they don't agree.

 

[kilowatt]

The biggest reason is $$$$. JAD and Fagemo are on entry level contracts. They are paid out on their AHL salary (two-way contract), which is 10X less while practicing with the NHL team on the taxi squad. If you sent Wagner (healthy scratch recently) to the taxi squad to practice, you would have to pay him his NHL salary even though he is not on the NHL roster (one-way contract), and have to pay the player that replaces him on the 23 man NHL roster their NHL pay instead of the AHL pay. So it's much more economically feasible to do it the way the Kings are. The reason players like JAD, Fagemo, Villalta and Alt are on the taxi squad while the team is on the ROAD, is staff obviously feels these players have the most pro experience and could step into an NHL game if the Kings needed to make changes due to the C-19 while traveling. If you are implying that the taxi squad players are better than the players on the 23 man NHL roster, you'll have to convince the coaching staff, they don't agree.

I totally understand that, but Fagemo and JAD are important players for the future of the organization. So why are they sitting on the taxi squad instead of playing for the Reign when guys like Rymsha and Brickley could be on the taxi squad instead?

 

[kingsholygrail]

Let's get this streak to 3.

 

[Lt Dan]

LOL Andersson looks like a total psycho in his pic

 

[Lt Dan]

Let's get this streak to 3.

 

[Fingolfin]

Can we please play someone other than the f***ing Wild?

 

[Sol]

God I f***ing hate the wild. When can we stop playing this boring ass team God damn.

 

[KingTech]

Please stay out of the box. If u get a chance hit that rookie Russian and slow him down a bit. Go Kings Go

 

[johnjm22]

The top line got hemmed in quite a few times last game. They need to play better.

 

[lumbergh]

BTW, our man Gabe Vilardi tied for the league lead in rookie goals, and King Kopi tied for the league lead in assists. Here's hoping they break those ties tonight.

 

[Mats26]

JAD in the lineup.

 

[kingsboy11]

 

[Docgonzo]

 

[Sleeping Dog]

Uh oh. Hope this doesn’t turn into a Dallas situation, where we’ll be postponing games.

 

[Lt Dan]

 

[tny760]

happy for JAD, wish it wasn't AA though

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

I believe even if a player is simply sick, they wind up in the protocol. Doesn’t necessarily mean he has covid.

 

[Lt Dan]

JAD in the lineup.

I hope he scores a goal for each of his last names.

 

[Ray Martyniuk]

I wonder why JAD and Fagemo are still on the taxi squad. Certainly there are NHL guys we could have sitting instead?

I heard AA is in Covid protocol so hopefully JAD gets into the lineup as a 3rd LWinger and Lias moves up to 2nd line LWing

 

[Ray Martyniuk]

The top line got hemmed in quite a few times last game. They need to play better.

Plz,plz move Lias or Grundstrom up with Kopi and Kempe