GDT: 2022-23 season game 15 LA Kings vs Minnesota Wild @7:30pm 11/8/22

[unicornpig]

TM must have a raging hard on. Low event hockey

 

[kingsboy11]

Honestly, even though this wasn't the most exciting game we've had all year, this was probably the most satisfying win. They really didn't give the Wild anything all game long. Could've been a blowout if our powerplay was sucking ass. Really proud of the boys with their defensive structure tonight.

 

[ScoreZeGoals]

Happy to get the win, that game sucked

 

[kilowatt]

Huge win, great game from Quick, Goalardi does it again. Classic Kings/Wild hockey right there.

 

[DoktorJeep]

Nice to see Quickie back in the saddle and bagging points.

 

[johnjm22]

At the end of the game, Roy could've just skated the puck into the corner and grinded out the few remaining seconds.

Instead, he sends the puck back up to the point ensuring the Wild get a final chance at scoring.

 

[HookKing]

The horn woke me up, what happened?

Didn't see it but it sounds like they finally got to practice (with that extra day off) and didn't waste any of it on the pp.

 

[kingsfan28]

nice to see Valardi get some national coverage.

 

[SufferingSelfCreated]

Doughty leads Kings defensemen in ES CF%, FF%, SF%, GF%, and is second in xGF% all while having the most Dzone faceoffs. Those are facts.

That's fair lol

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Russo sure is a whiny bitch.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

 

[King'sPawn]

It wasn't pretty, but never hurts to see a win.

But holy shit do they have work to do on the powerplay.

Nice to see Kopitar and Vilardi producing in spite of Kempe... who's back on pace for under 50 points despite getting the third most minutes per game from forwards (behind Kopitar and Danault).

The Danault line getting hemmed in their own zone for 2 minutes was embarrassing.

I like that Lemieux is willing to get engaged when things need to get dirty, but I really wish he was smarter.

Clarke averaging the least amount of minutes between the defensemen and not playing since November 1 is a travesty.

 

[kingsfan28]

Gabe is a big man.

 

[Jason Squirties]

Gabe is a big man.

Incoming @KingsHockey24 boner.

 

[kingsholygrail]

At least I predicted the score. lol

 

[The Butcher]

At least I predicted the score. lol

So did Chicken Vin Parm.

 

[johnjm22]

Need Danault and Kempe to play better.

The PowerPlay was disheartening, as was the way the Kings played after the Vilardi goal.

Gabe was consistently the King's most dangerous forward all night. Fiala second.

Kings have to find a balance between generating scoring chances, while still playing good team defense.

 

[AbsentMojo]

Huge win, great game from Quick, Goalardi does it again. Classic Kings/Wild hockey right there.

Goalardi - nice. is that original?

 

[unicornpig]

Need Danault and Kempe to play better.

The PowerPlay was disheartening, as was the way the Kings played after the Vilardi goal.

Gabe was consistently the King's most dangerous forward all night. Fiala second.

Kings have to find a balance between generating scoring chances, while still playing good team defense.

Danault had been uncharacteristically bad as well

 

[johnjm22]

Heading into this season I was critical of Kopitar's usage, and bemoaned his low energy levels, but overall I think he's been relatively sharp this year.

Kings bottom 4 D is a wreck. Management has to do something to stabilize those bottom units.

 

[SaltyElkHunter]

We really need to shuffle the deck chairs. We have all of the parts in the world and subtraction would really make things more defined. I agree that the bottom four is a cluster f***!

 

[lexlavender]

Edler and a 3rd for Mataa he was defensive special sauce

 

[Axl Rhoadz]

In memory of @Herby, I thought it would be fun to spark up the discussion on how the Kings have the inability to develop a top-6 forward. Who wants to get this going??

But holy shit do they have work to do on the powerplay.

Have no fear, they got rid of Sturm...we're good.

 

[Master Yoda]

It wasn't pretty, but never hurts to see a win.

But holy shit do they have work to do on the powerplay.

Nice to see Kopitar and Vilardi producing in spite of Kempe... who's back on pace for under 50 points despite getting the third most minutes per game from forwards (behind Kopitar and Danault).

The Danault line getting hemmed in their own zone for 2 minutes was embarrassing.

I like that Lemieux is willing to get engaged when things need to get dirty, but I really wish he was smarter.

Clarke averaging the least amount of minutes between the defensemen and not playing since November 1 is a travesty.

Kempe's been pretty horrible the last few games. Not doing much of anything probably since even before the lines were shuffled.

 

[FSL KINGS]

Great game! First shutout of the year! Wild were missing guys, but Kings didn't give up a lot of chances.

PP could use some work. Maybe just shots on net & don't worry about the pretty one timers so much. More shot volume. Just put it on net.