GDT: 2023-24 season Western Conference Quarter Finals LA Kings vs Edmonton Oilers Game 1

[Master Yoda]

Can a GM be fired during a playoff series?

 

[tny760]

guys just wait til you see hiller's 4d wizardry on home ice! it's not over!

 

[Choralone]

Well, the Lakers are winning tonight....

 

[jgs]

This is so embarassing. The Kings don't even look like a NHL level hockey team.

 

[Schrute farms]

Congratulations Surf Axl, you got to the playoffs. Hope you’re enjoying it. Blake is our guy

 

[bland]

He deserved the pass.

Do you dispute that this clearly wasn't his weakest year of his three in LA?

It's been pretty obvious to me.

 

[Sol]

this is why the Kings needed to play the oilers. End this f***ing facade. This isn’t a playoff team. Kopitar has gotten paid enough he could have f***ed off. f*** Doughty too. And I wish we did the right rebuild because even byfield isn’t even it

 

[Live in the Now]

Well, the Lakers are winning tonight....

Yeah thankfully. I gave them a ton of money for a Game 3 ticket. Don't want to be going to an 0-2 series. Kings got 0 dollars from me this season after paying for playoff tickets previous years.

 

[kingsholygrail]

Is the Kings D zone coverage usually this bad? Need to tighten up. Can’t be giving Hyman night and day behind the net to set up a play.

Yes it usually is.

 

[KingsOfCali25]

And you're telling me Kaliyev, Turcotte, Thomas, and Clarke wouldn't give a better effort than these bums? I rather see them get the experience than watch what I'm seeing tonight

 

[SaltyElkHunter]

Someone get a snow shovel to get what’s left of Blake’s ego out of the GM office!

 

[Little Psycho]

We gonna break some record in this séries. Not a good one

Yeah gonna go goalless

 

[SettlementRichie10]

Yeah, I can’t even muster my usual revulsion for the Oilers here.

This Kings team is just so heartless and embarrassing. What a poorly constructed team. Blake did everything the opposite of Lombardi. Built from the wings in. Who cares about goaltending. What’s identity and culture?

 

[RocketKing]

Blake created this cluster F***. About the best that can happen is that Edmonton destroys us in 4 straight and Bluke get their walking papers

 

[Sol]

Byfield is so useless too. This is supposed to be our savior? UGHHHHHH

 

[johnjm22]

Do you dispute that this clearly wasn't his weakest year of his three in LA?

It's been pretty obvious to me.

I agree. I'm just saying the guy gets a bit of a pass until the playoffs.

 

[Ollie Weeks]

At this point we should clean house entirely. This is not a playoff team. Three straight years out in the first round by McDavid. Build around Byfield, keep a few of the young guys, and clear house. Just embarrassing. I said Edmonton in 5, maybe I was too generous.

This moment here? It’s the moment you remember they extended Kopitar for two years before this season even started. Woof.

 

[Omni Owl]

Pathetic team and effort. Talbot should have been pulled. This is going to be an easy series for the Oilers...

 

[DoktorJeep]

They’ve had like half a dozen two on ones.

 

[JTeller97]

Spence has been especially terrible

 

[ru4reals]

guys just wait til you see hiller's 4d wizardry on home ice! it's not over!

11-7 to wear the sh*t out of the players. Can't wait.

 

[Herby]

This is a bad team that limped into the playoffs by beating really bad teams. That's just the reality of it.

I wouldn't say bad, they are the definition of a middling team.

 

[Master Yoda]

Most of us were expecting this but it's even worse. f***en embarassing.

 

[Omni Owl]

Spence has been especially terrible

He has no business being in the lineup over Clarke...

 

[Sol]

I’m so tired of this shit man. I loved Kopitar and doughty but please f***ing get off this team