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

[LAKings88]

Nothing has changed.

Can’t stop the pp.

Can’t generate physicality against a bigger team.

Can’t stop McDavid.

Can’t dictate play.

Prevent and hope for a breakdown.

LA power play did nothing.

 

[RayMartyniukTotems]

ESPN crew are like they should've lost to the Hawks to play the Star. this was repeated all night.

The result would have been the same

 

[kingsfan28]

That shit would’ve been 7-0 Stars.

Don't think so, Benn can't put up 5 assist even in his prime.

 

[SaltyElkHunter]

Nothing has changed.

Can’t stop the pp.

Can’t generate physicality against a bigger team.

Can’t stop McDavid.

Can’t dictate play.

Prevent and hope for a breakdown.

LA power play did nothing.

Its way worse

 

[Live in the Now]

You absolutely trade both of them. It sends a message to the NHL, the Kings organization, and the fans that the days of living on past glory are over.

I agree but the big hangup there is they both have trade list clauses.

There is no reason at all for the next GM to have Gavrikov or Dubois on this team though. I can't think of anything stupider.

 

[Albi]

1 down, 3 to go.
Tic Toc Blake

 

[kilowatt]

Cal Petersen just woke up in a cold sweat, no way he'd give up eight

 

[LAKings88]

ESPN crew are like they should've lost to the Hawks to play the Star. this was repeated all night.

Staying as far away from that crew as possible this playoffs.

 

[Reaper45]

Cal Petersen just woke up in a cold sweat, no way he'd give up eight

Yeah he’d have given up 12.

 

[SaltyElkHunter]

Cal Petersen just woke up in a cold sweat, no way he'd give up eight

After 5 is the wake up call

 

[SeanMoneyHands]

Last playoffs, the Kings put up a better fight and they had the Oilers on the ropes. This year, unfortunately the Oilers are a much better and more physical team with the additions of Perry, Henrique and Carrick. Im not sure if the Kings can put up much of a fight this year but I hope they prove us wrong.

 

[Live in the Now]

Its way worse

Yeah. We took them to the brink in 2022. Everything has gotten worse since then. They made good acquisitions and developed players properly. The Kings did not.

 

[KINGS17]

I agree but the big hangup there is they both have trade list clauses.

There is no reason at all for the next GM to have Gavrikov or Dubois on this team though. I can't think of anything stupider.

Find a team on the list that will take them and ship them out.

 

[Reaper45]

I agree but the big hangup there is they both have trade list clauses.

There is no reason at all for the next GM to have Gavrikov or Dubois on this team though. I can't think of anything stupider.

Trade Gavrikov, let Roy walk or trade his rights. Jettison Dubois to some unmanned island. Trade Doughty. Like there needs to be a massive wake up call.

 

[kingsfan28]

Staying as far away from that crew as possible this playoffs.

Messier and Suban just trashed Gav on all the pp goals. Even PK knew he should've parked himself on the far post. Gav just was asleep there twice.

 

[kingsholygrail]

Nothing has changed.

Can’t stop the pp.

Can’t generate physicality against a bigger team.

Can’t stop McDavid.

Can’t dictate play.

Prevent and hope for a breakdown.

LA power play did nothing.

 

[Reaper45]

Last playoffs, the Kings put up a better fight and they had the Oilers on the ropes. This year, unfortunately the Oilers are a much better and more physical team with the additions of Perry, Henrique and Carrick. Im not sure if the Kings can put up much of a fight this year but I hope they prove us wrong.

Have you seen us Kings fans? We have no hope.

 

[DoktorJeep]

This game swung on Arvidsson’s miss followed by Talbot giving up an easy one to Henrique. You can’t win with overpaid vets and a bunch of try hard, feel good story players.

 

[johnjm22]

Everybody looked dopey.

Even guys like Fiala and Moore who usually play with some buzz looked flat. Worst game of Danault's LA career.

Roy just lets passes go right through him multiple times while he's standing in front of the crease.

PLD's goal was the perfect encapsulation of his 40pt season. Lowest effort goal possible. Score when it doesn't matter.

 

[Eagle Fang]

Messier and Suban just trashed Gav on all the pp goals. Even PK knew he should've parked himself on the far post. Gav just was asleep there twice.

They're not wrong Gavrikov was garbage as were a lot of players tonight. They looked like they were in preseason form.

 

[SaltyElkHunter]

Kopitar was a complete Ghost!!!!

 

[The Butcher]

Ladies and gentlemen, I've been to Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq, and I can say without hyperbole that this is a million times worse than all of them put together.

-Kent Brockman

 

[fsanford]

Messier and Suban just trashed Gav on all the pp goals. Even PK knew he should've parked himself on the far post. Gav just was asleep there twice.

He was brutal. I mean Fox and Stoll quietly ripped him

 

[Sol]

It’s so crazy to me that this isn’t 1-8th match up with how often the Kings have routinely been outclassed by the oilers. Last playoffs the Kings won games where they were being outplayed too. It’s so crazy that I can say confidently the Kings at no point were the better team. Not even for a minute.

 

[fsanford]

Kopitar was a complete Ghost!!!!

In the 3rd he got like 2 shifts. I do think has some kind of injury going on.