GDT: 2021-22 season game 31 LA Kings vs Vegas Golden Knights @7:30pm 12/28/21

[A1LeafNation]

Turcotte looks fantastic. He belongs plain and simple.

Looking like a top 6er here.

 

[Ray Martyniuk]

Turcotte looks fantastic. He belongs plain and simple.

Good to see Turcotte get a shot! Now he goes back and works on other aspects of his game...Turc doesn't always need to be looking he can be selfish once and awhile and drive to the net and let fly

 

[Ray Martyniuk]

That's his schtick, but say whatever you want about him, he sacrifices everything and leaves it all on the ice. I'd give anything to put his heart in some of the others we have drifting around the ice.

Can't win with a bunch of Lizotte's but I get what you mean

 

[Telos]

Yeah yeah, I get that things might be a little off, but stop selling the shaking off the rust narrative... These are professional athletes that have been playing this sport for practically their entire lives.

 

[lumbergh]

Turcotte looks fantastic. He belongs plain and simple.

Slow it down there, speedy.

 

[lumbergh]

Only Kings player who has played well is Sparks.

 

[Ray Martyniuk]

5 more years on DD contract....

Don't see him playing 5 more years in LA...he wants to play for a Stanley Cup contender wherever that is?

 

[ru4reals]

Slow it down there, speedy.

Okay my bad Tuuuurrrrccccoooottte loooooks faaaannnntaaastttiiiccc. Hhheee beeeellloooonnnggss pplllaaaiiin aaaaannnd Siiiiimmmpllle. That should be slow enough.

 

[unicornpig]

Don't see him playing 5 more years in LA...he wants to play for a Stanley Cup contender wherever that is?

what contender is gonna want him at his current play and 11million per.

 

[Ray Martyniuk]

Arizona and SJose are knotted up at 7...I gotta watch the OT

 

[AbsentMojo]

Cant move DD or Kopi - pretty sure both have no movement contracts... but im sure they would waive for the right scenario -- the rebuild started to late for them to be a factor and they are actually more in the way at this point.

 

[ru4reals]

New arena name, new throwback jersey same old team. Turcotte got his cup thought he played well got a few chances and did what was advertised. Now back to the A.

 

[Ray Martyniuk]

what contender is gonna want him at his current play and 11million per.

LA will have to eat some of the contract of course but the Kings have a boatload of RD-men on the rise and they can't keep them down for too long

 

[FSL KINGS]

Anyone else miss Danault?

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

Yeah yeah, I get that things might be a little off, but stop selling the shaking off the rust narrative... These are professional athletes that have been playing this sport for practically their entire lives.

I was gonna ask if they said this on the TV because I was going to bitch about it.

No team needs more stuff to align in their favor than the kIngs. not like VGK wasn't ALSO off, AND they're missing an absolute plethora of guys too...yet one team looked like they had an excuse to call in sick to work and one didn't.

Sick of this "oh but it's a 1pm game" "oh but it's a back to back" "oh but it's on the road" no other team seems to have trouble with phases of the moon.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

Also if you thought my hatred for this organization was burning before tonight oooooh lord is it fully lit now

you can already tell the difference between the fresh excited guys like Turcotte and even the guys that have been here a little longer, they've had the life sucked out of them by vets just showing up and cashing a check. Can't really blame them, why would I try hard when I can watch Doughty coast 24 minutes a game pouting because the olympics are off and literally handing goals to the other team?

 

[Ollie Weeks]

I truly wish I was spending more money on this franchise so that I could unspend it for the absolute privilege of explaining to them why.

 

[kingsholygrail]

I'm tired of this team being unprepared for games at home.

 

[KINGS17]

This is a f***ing circus

 

[KINGS17]

Anyone know what Tmac is trying to do coaching this team? Kings started the game doing okay. They were generating attack, but passing the puck too much and not attempting to shoot the puck. Too bad Tmac wasn't already fired, because I think the Kings really need a kick start from a coach like Bruce Boudreau.

 

[kilowatt]

...woof

 

[KingTech]

We need better special teams play or we are going no where. 5 on 5 we can can with most teams Its the speciality teams we go off the rail

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

We need better special teams play or we are going no where. 5 on 5 we can can with most teams Its the speciality teams we go off the rail

Yeah was pretty telling when the Kings got a late power play with a chance to close the gap to two and couldn't even muster a shot on goal.

Going through the same motions they have for the last 10 years.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

Oh, and hopefully it's just cobwebs from Covid, but Doughty fully looks like a guy who turned off the switch the moment they announced NHLers weren't going to the Olympics. I posted I was worried about that before, it was FULLY there tonight, back to the guy that's content to let his partner chase the pucks and guys in the corner.

 

[DryIslandBartender]

Man I don’t get this team, they had a good roadie against solid teams and lay a turd like tonight at home. I don’t get it, some guys looked like they mailed it in.