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

[KingsHockey24]

It would be a felony sexual assault.

Hard to watch, but I’d be hard pressed to turn away, out of morbid curiosity.

 

[The Butcher]

I think back to an ancient Chinese proverb: Never underestimate your opponent's ability to blow it.

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Great work, Todd.

Coaching equivalent of breaking your stick on the crossbar.

We've tried nothing, and now we're all out of ideas!

I spot a Simpsons quote!

I always knew you were alright.

 

[kingsholygrail]

Hopefully the Dodgers beat the crap out of the Cubs tomorrow to help me get over this.

 

[Trash Panda]

Hopefully the Dodgers beat the crap out of the Cubs tomorrow to help me get over this.

Does regular season baseball even matter? I can’t remember giving a shit about a non-October baseball game since I was a kid.

 

[Sol]

The series is a wrap. It’s been fun.

Need some of Axl Rhoadz illogical positivity

 

[crassbonanza]

I was pretty let down by the lack of energy when the team was down these past two games. I know that Blake is obsessed with the Shanaplan model of puck possession and no contact, but you need to change things up once the playoffs start. They should have been deploying a 2 man forecheck towards the end, finishing their checks on the Oilers defencemen and start wearing them down. It's a 7 game series, at least try to impact the next game.

 

[ujju2]

A lot of us have lamented about the lack of player development at the expense of sneaking into the playoffs, and those chickens are coming home to roost.

To pour salt into that particular wound, the Kids are learning nothing besides how to take a beating in front of a home crowd out of this series.

Have to establish culture & direction in the regular season before aiming for playoff success.

McLellan is not the guy for player development. A lot of us Oilers fans thought Tippett was a very underwhelming coach, but even still the vast majority would tell you that he was lightyears better than McLellan when it came to developing young players. McLellan has his strengths (he's good at instilling structure and fundamentals in a team, for example) but again I have my doubts about his fit in LA right now. Just my two cents, sorry to drop in as an opposing fan.

 

[Trash Panda]

McLellan is not the guy for player development. A lot of us Oilers fans thought Tippett was a very underwhelming coach, but even still the vast majority would tell you that he was lightyears better than McLellan when it came to developing young players. McLellan has his strengths (he's good at instilling structure and fundamentals in a team, for example) but again I have my doubts about his fit in LA right now. Just my two cents, sorry to drop in as an opposing fan.

Nonsense, outside perspective is always welcomed man.

 

[Little Psycho]

Oilers fan infront of me caught the puck during the game and gave it to the kid next to me. Only cool thing that happened lol.

Pn

 

[Schmooley]

McLellan is not the guy for player development. A lot of us Oilers fans thought Tippett was a very underwhelming coach, but even still the vast majority would tell you that he was lightyears better than McLellan when it came to developing young players. McLellan has his strengths (he's good at instilling structure and fundamentals in a team, for example) but again I have my doubts about his fit in LA right now. Just my two cents, sorry to drop in as an opposing fan.

I think everyone here agrees. Hed be better coaching teams like Pittsburgh, Washington, St Louis etc… Teams with veterans/fewer young players that need to show up to work and play a good structure and be motivated to play for each other.

 

[ujju2]

Nonsense, outside perspective is always welcomed man.

Appreciate it. I should add the one caveat I just remembered: Draisaitl's meteoric rise (from 1 point in his first 20 NHL games to what he is now) occurred largely under McLellan. But that's the only example I can think of, and by most accounts the vast majority of credit there goes to Drai himself.

 

[Jericho111091]

Next games lineup…

Murray Danault Moore
Robitaille Kopitar Kempe
Brown Stoll Johnson
Iafallo Lizotte Emerson

OD Blake
Modry Roy
Edler Greene

Ranford
Quick

What's Noah Clarke up to?

 

[WHOneedsSOX]

What the hell is going on with the Kings? They aren't this bad, are they? If they were losing 4-2/5-2 I'd understand but 6-0 and 8-2??

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Sure, the Kings have some injuries to some important players, but these ass kickings, much like against Vegas in 2018, is exposing all of the team’s problems, from special teams, to finishing chances and capitalizing on opponents mistakes, to their soft, slow, and offensively inept blueline.

 

[BigKing]

So wild to have a GM that was so known for his hitting and power game build such a p***y team.

Oh wait! It's not wild because Blake's entire career has been about getting Kings fans excited and then f***ing pulling the football away like Lucy on Charlie Brown.

I've had season seats since 2001-02. Not a lot of playoff teams during that time but, seriously, I don't remember seeing even the shit teams getting blown out as much as this team.

They aren't close. The fact the Kings are raising STH'er prices based on this season is ridiculous.

 

[unicornpig]

McLellan is not the guy for player development. A lot of us Oilers fans thought Tippett was a very underwhelming coach, but even still the vast majority would tell you that he was lightyears better than McLellan when it came to developing young players. McLellan has his strengths (he's good at instilling structure and fundamentals in a team, for example) but again I have my doubts about his fit in LA right now. Just my two cents, sorry to drop in as an opposing fan.

this, his system will destroy any offensive potential our prospects have. blake needs to realize this sooner than later.

 

[KINGS17]

So wild to have a GM that was so known for his hitting and power game build such a p***y team.

Oh wait! It's not wild because Blake's entire career has been about getting Kings fans excited and then f***ing pulling the football away like Lucy on Charlie Brown.

I've had season seats since 2001-02. Not a lot of playoff teams during that time but, seriously, I don't remember seeing even the shit teams getting blown out as much as this team.

They aren't close. The fact the Kings are raising STH'er prices based on this season is ridiculous.

But they wear black, so they must be tough.

 

[kingsholygrail]

Shoulda worn chrome.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Joel Quenneville is available…

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

Sure, the Kings have some injuries to some important players, but these ass kicking, much like against Vegas in 2018, is exposing all of the team’s problems, from special teams, to finishing chances and capitalizing on opponents mistakes, to their soft, slow, and offensively inept blueline.

Because the playoffs aren't a one-off game in December against an east coast opponent who doesn't care to scout you at the end of a road trip.

We always said this is the kind of thing that would get exposed in a 7-game series vs. an opponent who is gonna play you nightly. well, look what's happened since game 1--systematic dismantling attacking basically exactly our weaknesses. Of course, there are a lot of them, but it's basically the same asskicking that happened vs. SJS in 2014--opponent came out swinging at our weak spots. Difference is, Sutter can figure that out. TM just curls up in fetal position and cuts press conferences short because it's the media's fault or something.

Sure, he'll re-jigger the bottom six and blame Kupari or something, but won't take any accountability for the special teams, Kopitar being on the ice for the first 5 goals and 6 total, the million odd-man breaks taking advantage of our system, the inability to backcheck allowing d-men to be aggressive, or, most importantly, anything to stop the Edmonton light-drop breakout allowing McDavid (or anyone) to build speed constantly even though you can see it coming every damn time from anywhere in the building.

It's like, they're not checking, so no reason to get 3 guys caught behind the play; yet Edmonton either gets 3 guys cleanly in on our 2 every time, or we fall back, and they set up that little breakout, and they just completely beat their guys repeatedly. Why is Edmonton able to read our break out and hold the puck in, and we can't do either thing? I know folks will want to blame that on the players--but at this level, that's coaching, too. Small adjustments make HUGE differences.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

Funny enough outside of the end when it didn't matter the bottom six controlled play vs. edmonton's bottom six. Still, no production, but much better battle. Getting a goal or two out of those guys may be the difference in the series if we can play more games like Game 1.

But again, it comes down to the horses, and can't win if Kopitar gets pinata'ed again...but that's asking for a lot given that's basically the same way it's gone down the back half of the season. Asking him to turn it around against McDavid/Draisaitl is a tallllll order, especially since AA and Kempe have the collective defensive awareness of a houseplant.

 

[BigBrown]

On the bright side, Todd is a master of playoff adjustments so I'm confident he'll make the right changes.

 

[bland]

Why doesn't Brown start shit? He's retiring. Not like a suspension would mean anything.

Dude let a rookie get elbowed in the face at the horn and looked right at the ref instead of standing up for him.

He isn't going to start acting like a man now.

 

[johnjm22]

That was just embarrassing.

Even if there's a talent gap, you should still be able to play tight structed team defense to keep the game close.

People keep trying to make comparisons to the 2011 or 2010 teams. Those teams had upside. This one doesn't.

The the PK is a comically bad 54.6%

 

[Omni Owl]

Though hung out to dry, there's no way Quick should continue starting in the series while getting blown out like this. Cal or Sparks are better options @ this point, it worked for Nashville. It honestly doesn't even really matter tho. I thought it would be a good thing to make the playoffs so the youth can get a taste and get some experience, but it would have been better if they just missed this year. Getting continuously humiliated can't be good for anyone's development. It seems they have no shame in getting destroyed like this, no fire under their asses or anything, Also, WHY the f*** do our special teams coaches still have jobs?