GDT: 2021-22 season WESTERN CONFERENCE QUARTER FINALS Game 3 LA Kings vs Edmonton Oilers @7:00pm Series Tied 1-1

[kingsboy11]

Edmonton Oilers (49-27-6, 104pts, 2nd in Pacific)@ Los Angeles Kings(44-27-11, 99pts, 3rd in Pacific)
Staples Center | Los Angeles, CA
TIME: 7:00pm PT | TV: Bally Sports So Cal/ TBS RADIO: I Heart Radio App

PLAYOFF STATS

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

Scratched: Austin Strand, Tobias Bjornfot, Lias Andersson, Rasmus Kupari, Gabriel Vilardi, Troy Stecher, Viktor Arvidsson
Covid: N/A
Injured: Sean Walker, Drew Doughty

Injuries: , Oskar Klefbom
Covid: N/A

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[Axl Rhoadz]

Need Arvidsson back, kill some penalties and no Byfield turnovers (although I think he will be scratched) ... we'll be fine.

 

[kingsholygrail]

Got the turd game out of the way. Back on track tonight!

 

[head eyes]

Score a powerplay goal and kill a penalty please.

 

[Master Yoda]

I'd like to see Vilardi check back in and scratch Lemieux.
AA Lizotte Vilardi line was very good in the Seattle game.
Home game, last change, they can take advantage of certain matchups.

 

[Mighty Makar]

Go Kings Go!

 

[LAKings88]

Just win.

 

[MBH]

Keys to victory.
1) Quick must be better than Smith.
2) Kings have to get back to their 5 on 5 advantage. If they're getting outshot at 5 on 5, there is nowhere to hide.
3) A powerplay goal.
4) Kings defense needs to do better on the Oiler dump ins. Oilers wore down the Kings D and every Kings breakout was sloppy/contested.

 

[Choralone]

I'd like to give Kupari a go - when he has a good game he's flying and hitting - two things the Kings weren't doing on Wednesday.

 

[KingPuckChoo]

Byfield has to be scratched, dude is just not ready

plug a Kupari or Vilardi in there and see what happens, Vilardi was kind of taking off at season's end...

 

[kings11]

We need Kupari in there..

 

[shuchukfan]

I hope the crowd is pumped tonight and gives some energy to the guys out on the ice. And if Smith is going to dive again, make sure you get a good hit on him. Make it count.

 

[shuchukfan]

Hypothetically, what would happen to a player that is retiring at the end of the season, but gets a long suspension for say, oh, I don't know, kneeing a highly-skilled player on the other team and taking them out for a few months? No, I'm not advocating deliberately injuring someone, but these things can happen with the speed of the game.

 

[BringTheReign]

Hypothetically, what would happen to a player that is retiring at the end of the season, but gets a long suspension for say, oh, I don't know, kneeing a highly-skilled player on the other team and taking them out for a few months? No, I'm not advocating deliberately injuring someone, but these things can happen with the speed of the game.

I know it's a joke, but this type of joke leads to bad karma from the hockey gods. Do better dude.

 

[Sol]

Hopefully Todd can remember that he’s a coach and kinda do that job

 

[Peter James Bond II]

Rasmus had better play his best game ever. Hoping for an Arvidsson miracle....he's not on the ice, apparently at the 10:30 skate

 

[Telos]

Win the next two games and point and laugh sounds like a good game plan. GKG!

 

[Little Psycho]

Only change is Kupari in for Byfield. What a shitty time for Arvi to get injured.

 

[YAYSAY]

Hopefully he can bring the same heavy style he plays with at wing to center position. Feel like he'd play more conservative at center ever since he's been brought back up compared to wing.

 

[Peter James Bond II]

Keys to victory.
1) Quick must be better than Smith.
2) Kings have to get back to their 5 on 5 advantage. If they're getting outshot at 5 on 5, there is nowhere to hide.
3) A powerplay goal.
4) Kings defense needs to do better on the Oiler dump ins. Oilers wore down the Kings D and every Kings breakout was sloppy/contested.

#5 Arvidsson takes the ice in warmups and is 100% ready to go to war.

 

[Little Psycho]

of course it is!

 

[Telos]

I am fine with Byfield being sat, even a little surprised that they had the cajones to make the call, but I am a little uneasy with Kupari being the center. I have really liked him on wing, but feel he has been lackluster and unable to rise to the challenge at center. Either way, I think he has been more effective than Byfield and hopefully he can use his speed and tenacity to be more effective defensively.

The key to the bottom 6 is not just maybe chipping in a goal or two, but mainly to keep the puck out of our net. We have control of the line changes this time around so I expect them to not be caught up against McDavid so much.

Obviously, Edmonton has aced the Gordon Bombay school of penalty drawing and are looking to use their special team advantage to win the series, but their secondary plan is to target our bottom 6.

 

[BigBrown]

Gotta get that forecheck from game 1 going again, get them turned around in their defensive zone. And don't take penalties.

 

[Cheech89]

Good move getting Kupari in for Byfield who's been horrendous. Should also help the brutal PK

 

[kingsholygrail]

of course it is!

Ball tanning injury.