GDT: 2021-22 season game 69 LA Kings vs Edmonton Oilers @6:30pm 3/30/22

[Trash Panda]

That can-opener attempt is almost automatic when 11 takes his turn in the SO.

So sadly predictable.

 

[123slam]

How do you put up shootout efforts like this, Kopi? Aren't you f***in embarrassed? f***

 

[kilowatt]

Kopitar needs to not take anymore shootouts, his five hole slide doesn't work anymore, it's not 2013

 

[King'sPawn]

Quick did a great job getting the Kings a point.

He looks like he hurt himself at the end. Can't fault him for dropping 2 to two of the most skilled forwards.

 

[Moses Doughty]

This team just isn't going to beat Drai/McDavid in a shootout. Let alone when you've got Kopi with his lazy ass backhands. Fine him every time he makes a weak backhand play at this point

 

[kingsholygrail]

Got a point I guess.

 

[Sol]

None of this is in Quick. He came up big a couple times.

But my god, Kopitar is absolutely awful and gassed. And our brain dead coach still doesn’t play the players who are carrying this team.

 

[Bandit]

Byfield? Kupari? Kaliyev?

NAH!!!!

 

[Moses Doughty]

If Iafallo got Quick hurt there, pull a Lane Kiffin with him

 

[Schmooley]

It was a real slap in the face to the young players that played hard tonight and got rewarded with riding the bench and had to sit there and watch Iafallo turn over pucks and Kopitar sleepwalk through overtime

 

[Herby]

No goals in 24 games, scores into our own net, turns it over almost costing us the game and potentially causing our best goaltender to be injured on the play.

And he will be right back out there on the first line and #1 PP unit tomorrow night.

This is disgraceful, this team is not a meritocracy, I've been a big TM supporter all year but this Iafallo non-sense has turned me against him.

 

[funky]

This is in the coach. What a brutal read if the game. Iafallo out in OT. That alone should get a guy fired. Did he not watch Kupari play? His size and speed is meant for OT.

We let a team with two of the top shooters in the league get to the shootout.

Embarrassing to keep trotting out the same people that fail time and again

 

[SaltyElkHunter]

Gonna have to get some boys out of the oil field to dig Kopitar out of the ground.

 

[ru4reals]

Goodness gracious lets bring back Willie D next year. I really want Bedard. I really hate this coach.

 

[Mats26]

"Took 40 games to drop Brown to 3rd line, there is still time for AI" - TMac

 

[Reparlana]

There isn't 3v3 or a shootout in the playoffs

 

[johnjm22]

Iafallo was extremely solid the first third of the year. I'm not sure what happened to him.

 

[Choralone]

Coach is playing the long game. He wants the kids to be too disgusted with the old timers to defer to them - seize the moment and all that.

 

[Peter James Bond II]

How does Iafallo get 22 minutes and 2 OT shifts?
0 - finishing ability
0- speed for 2 months now
0 - dynamicism
0 - electricity
0 - execution
0 - physicality
0 - times going to the net
0 - screen on the PP.

 

[Bandit]

Like how the f*** do you NOT put Kaliyev out there in the shootout? Maybe Todd thinks there’s a backchecker? f***ing lemon.

 

[King'sPawn]

Kempe got 25 minutes.

Kopitar got 24:27.

That is absurd ice time for any forward, let alone when that includes pk minutes.

 

[johnjm22]

Like how the f*** do you NOT put Kaliyev out there in the shootout? Maybe Todd thinks there’s a backchecker? f***ing lemon.

He had 8 minutes of TOI.

 

[Sol]

I’m so disgusted by the coaching today.

 

[MBH]

A point on the road in Edmonton? I'll take it.
Once it went to OT, the odds were stacked against LA.

Stop putting your oldest, slowest player out there at 3 on 3. It sucked last year.
It sucks worse this year.

 

[Bandit]

He had 8 minutes of TOI.

2 more than I thought he’d get on page 2, so progress?