GDT: 2021-22 season game 40 LA Kings vs Tampa Bay Lightning @7:30pm 1/18/22

[DoktorJeep]

Danault is pretty good at waste management

 

[kinghock]

Lazy ass Doughty

Doughty really slow after his injury. This is the biggest problem Kings have now,
Defense is better without him…

 

[RaymondReddington]

..and Todd, keep playing PP1 over PP2..that's a winning strategy

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

Give the C to Danault, 1 A to Lizotte, throw the other one away IDC

 

[ru4reals]

I’m gonna love seeing Helenius on this team.

Meh a big kid yes but I wouldn't bet on him being a bruiser.

 

[kinghock]

Horrible game by 11 & 8, when you need your leadership to step up against a strong opponent.
Frustrating and sad

They cannot do it anymore…

 

[kingsboy11]

This game really pissed me off. The lack of focus and the lack of awareness 3 games in a row is going to be the death of this team. The shorthanded goal they gave up might be the worst goal I've ever seen. Wake the f*** up

 

[jgs]

Well talent wise. The Kings have learnt that they have a ways to go before they will be a Cup contending team. They are losing to The Cup winning team that has played with only 4 regular defensemen. Kings should have exploited that and use it to their advantage and what is really insulting is the Hedman a d man has two goals.

 

[Bandit]

God I hate kucherov and Hedman’s faces.

 

[LAKings88]

Fun game for a bit.

f*** Tampa. May they never win a cup again.

 

[WHOneedsSOX]

Give the C to Danault, 1 A to Lizotte, throw the other one away IDC

Iafallo!

 

[AbsentMojo]

I think Kempe is obviously a big hole in the lineup.. his speed and physicality scoring .. thats a miss.. makes Kopis piano back even more noticeable

 

[bmr]

Give the C to Danault, 1 A to Lizotte, throw the other one away IDC

Yeah, players who give a shit and show it on the ice. I don’t care if this team has 2 cups. Have some damn pride.

 

[Herby]

I've never seen a player get taken off his game as much as Doughty does. Sometimes it's the other team, sometimes it's the poor play of his own team, tonight it was a missed call that he lets completely avalanche out of control. Not sure if the LA broadcast picked it up, but you could hear him cussing out the officials on multiple occasions. Just completely brain dead, you don't really see other players do it to often, Drew is going to Drew.

 

[crassbonanza]

It was so refreshing to hear Nickson call the game today, I wish we could get a few more

 

[Kurrilino]

This was a lesson in where our team really stands.
I hope this will finally make people rethink demanding to trade for a defender giving away our complete farm.
As long as we have 11 and 8, we are going nowhere
So lets ride out the contracts and collect more nice picks while building the future

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

Kopitar 22 minutes, Turcotte 8.
Doughty 26 minutes, Bjornfot 13.

Good shit.

 

[jgs]

I know a lot of people think Doughty is a great d man but I watch how Hedman plays and the effect he has, it blows Doughty away. Tampa played with only 4 D men in this game and. Hedman played a lot and got 2 goals and one of them was the game winner. Doughty, well he made a lot of mistakes in this game.

 

[ru4reals]

Tampa's a great team. Well we all said it before good stretch of games and then some bad ones. Colorado is gonna do some damage on Thursday folks. And they'll have 6 Defenseman playing. Yikes.

 

[LAKings88]

Last two games have been telling.

keep working

keep trying to get better

bring up Byfield

 

[kinghock]

This was a lesson in where our team really stands.
I hope this will finally make people rethink demanding to trade for a defender giving away our complete farm.
As long as we have 11 and 8, we are going nowhere
So lets ride out the contracts and collect more nice picks while building the future

or try to trade them

 

[tny760]

results aside, good stuff from the kids, durzi continues to impress me

i'm not super torn up about this one cause it's a b2b against a great team but vets have to show up to make these kind of games into Ws

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

I know a lot of people think Doughty is a great d man but I watch how Hedman plays and the effect he has, it blows Doughty away. Tampa played with only 4 D men in this game and. Hedman played a lot and got 2 goals and one of them was the game winner. Doughty, well he made a lot of mistakes in this game.

....it was one game.

Frankly outside of his goals hedman was a turnover machine all game, he just has a team that can bail him out when he has a bad night.

 

[bmr]

This was a lesson in where our team really stands.
I hope this will finally make people rethink demanding to trade for a defender giving away our complete farm.
As long as we have 11 and 8, we are going nowhere
So lets ride out the contracts and collect more nice picks while building the future

I’m inclined to agree with this. I’m really a lot more upset with Kopitar. After his hot start he has been terrible. Doughty gets a pass from me right now because of his injury. He’s still putting up good numbers.

This team needs to prove it can make the playoffs and then actually do some damage. At that point we can talk about trades. Rob can only do so much. He’s not responsible for lighting a fire under Kopi’s ass.

 

[Axl Rhoadz]

I know a lot of people think Doughty is a great d man but I watch how Hedman plays and the effect he has, it blows Doughty away. Tampa played with only 4 D men in this game and. Hedman played a lot and got 2 goals and one of them was the game winner. Doughty, well he made a lot of mistakes in this game.

Great, so maybe we should just trade Doughty for Hedman?