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GDT: 2021-22 season WESTERN CONFERENCE QUARTER FINALS Game 6 LA Kings vs Edmonton Oilers 5/12/22 LA leads 3-2

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to be fair, most of our roster sucks, and you all know it, you can't pretend that this is not true

Some of you need to go over a 12 steps program to figure this out, there's a summer season coming soon, and there's no better time to detox the Bowlby regiment from our blood

Once you awaken (not woken) from this spell, we can group together and submit a change.org petition to clean up this garbage administration

Yes, you may not have baby formula, you might not be able to fuel your Volvo, heck, you might even get fired from a job for refusing gene therapy, but this... this here... this is the hill we all are willing to die on

change.org

let's get Bowlby fired

Go Kings Go
 
This is AA game right here. Tries to do everything himself. If he just chips it away, uses him speed to go around two flat footed dmen he's got a winger all alone on the right side as an option. Instead, it's turned over and he's
knocked on his ass!

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Anyone else catch Keith putting his stick on AA throat after Smith speared him? He was standing right over him and just started pushing down with it. A-hole move.
 
That was a tough one. LA needs to capitalize on bounces. I know they got a PP goal last night but they had more than enough chances than that.
I don't get why the coaches love AA. Yes he is fast but he seems so easy to knock off the puck.
Edmonton's non goal should have counted. That's a call LA needed to take advantage of.
That was by far the best 5 on 5 Edmonton has looked this series.
About 3 minutes into the 2nd I was wondering if Brown was LA's top winger in this game. He looked like he really wanted it. That save on him in the 3rd was a big turning point IMO. I would like to see Brown in front of the net on the PP, even if it is the second unit. The durzi goal was scored because LA had Danault right in front. They need to do that instead of just looking for cross ice one timers that everyone is reading.
Narrative out of Edmonton is that they bear LA and the refs. I get the non-goal call was brutal, but everything else felt legit. Not Kaliyev's fault McDavid got in his way right?

Get another crack at it on Saturday, but this feels like a missed opportunity given how the 3rd period started and all the PPs.
 
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I'm okay not resigning AA. For all of his speed/skill, he gives up the rest in boneheaded plays and defensive lapses. Hurts not having Arvidsson out there for sure. Another thing - Kopi just can't seem to keep up w/ the plays. Did you see how fast McDavid blew by him?

This series should be reassuring for everyone. The core looks good - Blake has some work to do in rounding out the roster..but it's trending the right direction. I think Grundstrom played his way into a permanent spot in the lineup next year with how he's doing in the playoffs.
 
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bmr said:
I'm okay not resigning AA. For all of his speed/skill, he gives up the rest in boneheaded plays and defensive lapses. Hurts not having Arvidsson out there for sure. Another thing - Kopi just can't seem to keep up w/ the plays. Did you see how fast McDavid blew by him?

This series should be reassuring for everyone. The core looks good - Blake has some work to do in rounding out the roster..but it's trending the right direction. I think Grundstrom played his way into a permanent spot in the lineup next year with how he's doing in the playoffs.
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McDavid skates by everyone. They key is getting the right angle on him and make him go wide; Kempe in the 1st was a disaster, totally caught out of position and missed the angle to make him go wide, and he scored. They got the match up with Kopitar instead of the Danault line which has been better at stopping him and slowing down his chances.
 
bmr said:
I'm okay not resigning AA. For all of his speed/skill, he gives up the rest in boneheaded plays and defensive lapses. Hurts not having Arvidsson out there for sure. Another thing - Kopi just can't seem to keep up w/ the plays. Did you see how fast McDavid blew by him?

This series should be reassuring for everyone. The core looks good - Blake has some work to do in rounding out the roster..but it's trending the right direction. I think Grundstrom played his way into a permanent spot in the lineup next year with how he's doing in the playoffs.
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to be fair to Kopi McDavid blows by everyone...all the time.
 
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In the last 3 series clinching games on home ice, the Kings are 0-3. Outscored 11-5. Scored on first in all 3 games. The only game they weren't down at least 2-0 was when they got shut out 1-0. No 1st period GF. 3 different coaches.
 
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YP44 said:
to be fair to Kopi McDavid blows by everyone...all the time.
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That is fair, but Kopi has definitely lost a step. He just looks like he's been laboring this season. Remember his rookie year when he blew by Pronger?
 
Raccoon Jesus said:
let's see

one was a playoff elimination game in which I am evaluating a 27 year old ufas play who is getting force fed offensive time in every situation despite mistakes compounding mistakes, and lazy ones at that

the others are random one-off games throughout the regular season by teenagers (not even playing tonight) who we are supposed to be breaking into the league who get their playing time limited if they so much as look at the water bottles the wrong way

yeah i wonder why we look at the two thru a different lens and why I'm not here retroactively attacking everyone under 24

You want to talk about an odd concept, it's the one where in the GDT where mentioning AA's shit play on the night triggers a bunch of posters into lashing out at the offensive prospects.
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Byfield is a teenager and as someone else said in a post above me, he still has time to keep on the 1st line path, it just needs to show through in some way next season. Saying Byfield sucked this year and saying he still has a chance to be a 1st liner are not mutually exclusive thoughts. But for you I feel like it is, you just fought so hard to not see what was right in front of your eyes. QB was not good this year and it was because QB himself played bad. It wasn't his linemates (he stunk with everyone) or the coaches (he was given a long leash with the linemates you wanted). Yes, he is still a kid and it doesn't doom him to not having a good NHL career, but lets call a spade a spade, he was not a good player for the Kings this year.

I brought up the GDT's because you lay into AA every one of them, which is fine, many nights (like last night) he deserved it. Everyone has players they don't like, yours is clearly AA and players they really probably like to much. For me its probably Moore and Spence, for you I think you tend to give way to much of a favorable analysis based on a players age.

Can I ask you an honest question. Who in your opinion had a better season this year for the Kings, Gabe Vilardi or AA? No context, no excuses, no age. Who was the better player this season for the Kings? I just don't understand why one player gets dumped so much while another player with basically across the board worse metrics is who many want to play.

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That is fair, but Kopi has definitely lost a step. He just looks like he's been laboring this season. Remember his rookie year when he blew by Pronger?
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He was 19 then, playing his first game in the NHL. He is almost 35 now with 1200+ NHL games under his belt. Father time has been slowly creeping up on AK and this year it was really noticeable with his lack of speed.

I think Kopi's age was one area that kind of caught much of our fanbase off guard. I think there was a sort of denial that he was entering his mid-30's and many just assumed he'd pull a Bergeron and keep playing at a high level. But just like talking about 1 guy like Wheeler as a reason to have the patience of a saint with prospects when for every 1 Wheeler there are 20 who aren't, people will use Bergeron and Crosby as their reasons why Kopitar was going to keep it up when for every Bergeron and Crosby there are a dozen guys who fell off long before. And we are actually pretty lucky with AK, he lasted way longer than many of his contemporaries. He is better at 34 than Getzlaf was, than Staal was, than Carter was, he has aged better than Toews. Richards obviously collapsed at 28, Kesler was done by 34.

The Kopitar as the 1C in the 2022 playoffs is a Rob Blake and Mark Yanetti issue, not an Anze Kopitar one. He is still playing well enough to be a pretty good 2nd line center in this league and a championship caliber 3rd line one. It's not Kopi's job to find his replacement. I think the attacks on him and his play are a bit unfair to be honest. He is being asked to play a role he is not equipped to play anymore.
 
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Herby said:
You are/were a really good poster and member of this community when you wanted to be. It's pretty disappointing with this heel turn shtick that you have assumed this season. These 1 line posts talking about nothing are just a bad look.
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Herby said:
You are/were a really good poster and member of this community when you wanted to be. It's pretty disappointing with this heel turn shtick that you have assumed this season. These 1 line posts talking about nothing are just a bad look.
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Oh no, are you disappointed in me?? Not sure I can live with that....

Sorry, can't stand reading this garbage after every loss. When we win, everyone is ecstatic and this is the best team in a decade...when we lose, it's time to fire everyone and whine like babies about all our prospects. Oh, another thing....breaking news, Kopitar is slower than he was in 2007.
 
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Kings were beaten or at least matched at their own game last night. Obviously the difference is that one team has McDavid, the other does not.

One more game tomorrow to see who shows up.
 
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Axl Rhoadz said:
Oh no, are you disappointed in me?? Not sure I can live with that....

Sorry, can't stand reading this garbage after every loss. When we win, everyone is ecstatic and this is the best team in a decade...when we lose, it's time to fire everyone and whine like babies about all our prospects. Oh, another thing....breaking news, Kopitar is slower than he was in 2007.
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Well, I'm not the only one who thinks it. Numerous people have ignored you. Not me, because you are capable of good content, but maybe you should change it up if people are choosing to tune you out? Again, I like a lot of what you post but I think you let GDT's get to you to much and causes to much lashing out at perceived negativity, especially when it comes to the coach.

Some of what you say does make sense, I agree, there is a lot of hypocritical takes, but that is not something unique to this forum. But this board is much more, how do I put this, "optimistic" than most forums on this site or other messageboard sites on the net.

If you get angry about what you perceive as constant negativity about a team that finished with the 15th best record in the NHL you should be thankful you don't follow Michigan football and the weekly negativity in GDT's for a team that made the college football playoff. I don't think you could have handled it.
 
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