GDT: 2021-22 season game 60 LA Kings vs San Jose Sharks @6:30pm 3/12/22

[Raccoon Jesus]

Oh good byfield hit in the ankle with shot too

 

[MBH]

I’d remove Vilardi from that list, but fair enough otherwise. Just pisses me off that we’re wasting all this time trying to be competitive on the backs of rotting corpses.

At least you've been competitive.
I watched Ken Holland and Blashill play veterans over the prospects on teams that had no chance to make the playoffs. That's when you want to blow your brains out as a hockey fan.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

Jordan SPence just crossed the 20 minute mark

Kempe has played 16 and I cannot remember even seeing him

 

[LAKings88]

Florida
Colorado
San Jose
Vegas

Yikes

 

[Johnny Utah]

Kings are soft. Gadjovich was laughing at Durzi tried to attack him. And Viel punked JAD.

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[Ziggy Stardust]

Fun facts entering tonight’s game:
San Jose’s offense ranked 29th in the league, and their defense ranked 20th.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

Ah yeah better call that to manage the game

 

[AbsentMojo]

Forget Cal, why were Sharks allowed to just stand around in the crease untouched?

Need to put SOMEONE on their asses.

Trade for Soucy or Lauzon

Yes please

 

[BigKing]

This is legit the 2020 or 21 Kings with all these guys out. Do not expect any wins.

Can we get MacDermid back?

 

[onlyalad]

I hope tomorrow they do something

 

[AbsentMojo]

Jordan SPence just crossed the 20 minute mark

Kempe has played 16 and I cannot remember even seeing him

Bring back the new Kempe.. this current version is what we've been used to for 5 years - and i was hoping never to see it again

 

[ru4reals]

Florida
Colorado
San Jose
Vegas

Yikes

L
L
L
L

 

[KingsHockey24]

This team could really use a Mattias Norstrom right now.

 

[johnjm22]

Sometimes you're bad. Sometimes you're unlucky.

Sometimes you're both.

 

[AbsentMojo]

Kopi, Kempe, Iafallo - put a mirror on their locker door

 

[Sol]

I have no faith in this team

 

[Kingspiracy]

Well that went well

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Kopitar has been a rather sackless leader.

 

[Peter James Bond II]

I have no faith in this team

I have more faith in the last 5 Rob brought in - Moore, Lemieux, Danault, Arvidsson and Edler, than I do in the legacy veterans that have been here umpteen years....and 3 of them are out. Time to keep adding those types and letting the veterans go...would start with Iafallo (since they would not trade Kopi and no one would want him, unless 75% retained)

 

[Sol]

Kopitar looks like such a defeated p***y

 

[head eyes]

Kopitar has been a rather sackless leader.

This post game interview further proves that.

 

[Sol]

The brainless panda said brown is gonna be out for a while

 

[Peter James Bond II]

Great day for the organeyezation....5-0 sharts. Reign losing, 4-0 with 7 mins to go and Brandt Clarke DNP tonight for Barrie?
Don't tell me he's injured....

Can they callup Clarke and Chromiak, emergency basis? Ok, bad idea.

 

[Herby]

I’d remove Vilardi from that list, but fair enough otherwise. Just pisses me off that we’re wasting all this time trying to be competitive on the backs of rotting corpses.

I don’t know if Vilardi ever gets in a game for the Kings again if it doesn’t happen in the next couple of games with all these injuries.He already got passed up for Kupari, If he is passed over for someone like Fagemo or Frk I think it’s a given he is moved on from before next season.

As for the 2nd part, well a few of us wanted to go scorched Earth and didn’t love the summer moves. I didn’t think they could win again with 11 and 8 and I would have tried to get Drew to waive his NTC, keep Kopitar to put on billboards and as a lasting connection to the glory years and completely suck for a few years. They went in a different direction and they have achieved what they wanted to achieve, competitiveness again with 11 and 8. It is indisputable that Danault, Arvy and Edler made them a better team this season, but long-term does having a season like this on the backs of veterans while young players continue to crater bring you closer to a championship? I would say no, but some disagree. My reasoning for making more moves now is not only my complete lack of faith in those prospects I mentioned but that if the goal is to try and win a cup maybe the best chance could be a Montreal type run where you just get hot. It’s not how I’d prefer to do it, but just analyzing based on the moves he made this summer, whether I liked them or not, they were done.

I truly don’t think this rebuild has produced enough high end talent to compete in the modern skill heavy NHL and as 11 (kind of happening now) and eventually 8 start to fall off this team isn’t going to have the type of pieces to replace them and it’s going to be very ugly. Our cup teams had so many great players, hall of famers like Doughty, Kopitar and Quick. Secondary stars like Carter, Brown, Richards (2012), Gaborik (2014), Williams. I just don’t see where the difference makers are, Blake has a ton of quantity but not a ton of Hall of Fame caliber quality like Lombardi had.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

Madden and Turcotte are also out for Ontario and Thomas just came back from getting his entire torso replaced.