Yeah, and being on the books for another two seasons at $9.5M. Could be a rough exit for the Great 8.
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Yeah, and being on the books for another two seasons at $9.5M. Could be a rough exit for the Great 8.
AbsentMojo
F-ing get up and hunt! Cmon Todd!
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Another 4 days off. Bettman figure it out.. drop the offside challenge, stop the linesman from being hitler in the faceoff circle and fix the godamn scheduling so there arent big gaps and teams dont end up 5 games ahead of each other.
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Nasti
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If he really is done, could you imagine the Caps fighting for a playoff spot in a couple years but they keep wheeling his ass out as much as possible?
Axl Rhoadz
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The Butcher
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That's the sound of shooting % regression manifesting in a single game. Kings just got goalied. At least it was against the Caps and not a West team.
We're fortunate Byfield has been such a revelation this year because thinking about Dubois being the longest signed player in the entire franchise is damn depressing.
We're fortunate Byfield has been such a revelation this year because thinking about Dubois being the longest signed player in the entire franchise is damn depressing.
WHOneedsSOX
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One minute and four seconds in between the offside and the goal.
AbsentMojo
F-ing get up and hunt! Cmon Todd!
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agree its a bit early to sing his praises.. you can say that the team is playing well and they fixed some things like the PK.. a few feathers in his cap but far from a chief.. we'll give him brave status for now
I know it’s the rule but what a gut punch.
Them the breaks.
Kings deserved better tonight.
Can’t win them all.
SherVaughn30
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I think a lesson was kind of learned by the Kings tonight. Being the highest scoring team in the league, you are not gonna blow out every team you face. Some nights you will just have to grind it out, score some clutch goals and get great goaltending to scratch out a win. In the playoffs, it becomes more like that.
Raccoon Jesus
We were right there
Knew Doughty was putting together a monster game but good grief
Also as pointed out earlier sure 'we dont care' about matchups when rolling the lines but maybe don't give spence the overwhleming majority of his playing time against 6'6" Protas and 6'5" Mantha
Raccoon Jesus
We were right there
I started to post similar but deleted it, these guys need to start getting more comfortable with scoring ugly goals and bearing down, like Kaliyev's goal. The rest of the guys are spinning around looking for cute one timers and tap ins and that's just not gonna work against teams that are committed to winning a 1-0, 2-1 game, which you could see the Caps were ready to do after the first period.
And again, 4-7 at home.
I don't care about how. Fix it.
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hopefully that spells the end of the grundy on PLD's line experiment
kingsfan28
Its A Kingspiracy !
2 games in 2 weeks, then 5 in 7 on the road. WTF is wrong with the schedulers?
SherVaughn30
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They are doing the same exact thing to the Caps! In fact even with tonights game, Caps still have played the fewest games in the league @ 19!
kilowatt
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Kings dominated the entire game and couldn't get it done. Too bad but these things happen, what can you do. Put the pressure back on next game. The only team in the league with fewer games played than LA is Washington, funny enough.
Nasti
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I had flashbacks of a game I went to against the Wings in 2010 where the Kings lost 2-1 despite having over 50 shots on Jimmy Howard. The game winner was scored with a few seconds left in regulation after Ryan Smythe had finally tied it earlier in the third.
SherVaughn30
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Did you know the Oilers/Kings did the same thing with Gretzky?! Gretzky had the record for most empty net goals and OV is now tied with him @ 56. It's an NHL coaches choice who he puts out on the ice when the opponent has an empty net towards the end of the game.
ScoreZeGoals
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Extremely frustrating game, but you can't win them all. PLD is really starting to annoy me though
SherVaughn30
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Actually, I have to correct that and myself. The Sens have only played 17, by far the fewest in the NHL. The reason I think because they were on that special series in Sweden recently, so they are being given more time off.
SherVaughn30
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Just thought I might point out to you all that Charlie Lindgren now has the NHL's best SV% for an individual goalie now, @ .934 SV%. That is based on him qualifying for the league minimum requirement for games played. Kings just got beat by a hot goalie right now. When the Kings play the Avs, I don't think Gorgiev will play as good as Lindgren did. Kings will have to face an Avs team that is starting to serge up there with the top end teams like the Kings.
SherVaughn30
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Welcome to the world of Anthony Mantha. As a Caps fan we have been dealing with Mantha in the same way. Like PLD, Mantha is talented but doesn't always seem engaged in the game or with his line mates. Both Mantha/PLD seem go through stretches of games where they don't rack up points and as a fan you wonder how could players this talented, not be producing offense on a regular bases.
I think the team is really missing Lizzo and Arvidsson. I hope Arvy is a winger who can click with PLD whenever he returns this year.
