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GDT: 2024-25 season game 1 LA Kings vs Buffalo Sabres @4:00pm 10/10/24

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Where will the Kings finish?

  • Win Division

    Votes: 4 5.1%

  • 2-3 in Division

    Votes: 24 30.4%

  • Wild Card

    Votes: 31 39.2%

  • Miss playoffs

    Votes: 20 25.3%
  • Total voters
    79
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That Edmundson cross check was a thing of beauty, not because Zucker got dinged by it, but because we haven’t had anyone willing to do that in FOREVER.

Broadcast showed the Kings being 3-15-1 in Buffalo before tonight’s win. Can we just stop going there? Glad to get the W.

Lt Dan said:
Indeed

He needs to drink at least 5 Jolt colas before the Boston game
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Do they still make Jolt?
 
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Just finished watching. Holy shit. They were awful. Hopefully just a typical visit to Buffalo except the goalie bailed them out. Fun to steal one.

Turcotte looked good. Without seeing the play live, I knew Edmundson must have cross checked Zucker and then the replay confirmed it. Classic.

Burroughs is Phil Sykes.
 
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A Kopitar hatty on opening night , in Buffalo of all places wasn't on my bingo card tonight. Not a pretty game vs a team on their 3rd game, so just take the points and run.
 
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BigKing said:
Just finished watching. Holy shit. They were awful. Hopefully just a typical visit to Buffalo except the goalie bailed them out. Fun to steal one.

Turcotte looked good. Without seeing the play live, I knew Edmundson must have cross checked Zucker and then the replay confirmed it. Classic.

Burroughs is Phil Sykes.
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Sycho Sykes!
 
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Kings must be better though. I’m glad they won but they shouldn’t have been as out classed as they were for the most of the game. Cool to see the old man get a hatty but it will be much cooler to see Byfield or some other younger player start muscling out the wins.
 
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Reaper45 said:
That Edmundson cross check was a thing of beauty, not because Zucker got dinged by it, but because we haven’t had anyone willing to do that in FOREVER.

Broadcast showed the Kings being 3-15-1 in Buffalo before tonight’s win. Can we just stop going there? Glad to get the W.


Do they still make Jolt?
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There have been some very high scoring games between the two. I distinctly remember a 10-1 ass kicking in Andy Murray's last year as Head Coach and Jonathan Quick's first game (and win) which was 8-2 in 2007. I was at the latter. I'll never forget that game because I was there sitting 15 rows behind the Kings net. Also, my coworker who was alumni from Colorado College had gotten us free tickets and a meet and greet with Tom Preissing after the game. He as apparently Colorado College alumni. Following me giving Tom an earful about Marc Crawford to his girlfriend's delight, the bouncer at the Lexus Club asked us if we wanted to go in there so we did. There were a lot of Kings players there including Jonathan Quick and John Zeiler who were off in the corner by themselves sippin on some bud lights.
 
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Sol said:
I wouldn’t care about divisional matches if the playoffs aren’t… division based. If your complaint is “oh my god the sharks and ducks suck” then I think you should be complaining about the playoff format. Back 10 years ago the Ducks and Sharks had stellar teams with great players that was always chippy. How quickly do we forget?
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The complaint is missing out on seeing great teams and great players because *maybe* the Kings have a rivalry with a division team that is actually played like a rivalry. I don't want to watch Seattle two more times at the expense of Boston and Florida.

Talking about hockey from ten years ago when discussing rivalries and tough hockey is pointless because that era is mostly gone and it is generally only certain teams that bring that old mindset to every game they play, like the aforementioned Bruins and Panthers. But to your point, the Kings weren't soft back then so they could have a chippy game with anyone, plus other teams got up for them since they were a top team in the league. For years now, the Kings have been happy to just play a low-hitting, no fighting, low event type of game. Get in, get out, cash that check.

If the Kings played the style of hockey we would like to see, their games against Carolina would still be fun. In the end, it is the Kings that are the problem when it comes to rivalry type hockey since they have been the softest team in the league for years now, hence Blake finally adding some beef to the team.
 
Sol said:
Kings must be better though. I’m glad they won but they shouldn’t have been as out classed as they were for the most of the game. Cool to see the old man get a hatty but it will be much cooler to see Byfield or some other younger player start muscling out the wins.
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Hoping it is just a bit of growing pains and getting familiar with one another because it looked sloppier than the end of the Cal Petersen era without the scoring chances for the Kings to try and offset it.

No surprise though with this current blueline. Clarke is going to have a lot of yikes moments as he continues to get his feet under him. Burroughs isn't good and Edmundson isn't fantastic either. I'm looking forward to Clarke getting more opportunity with Doughty out, but his loss is a major blow to this teams current prospects of winning, which were dubious prospects at best even with him in the lineup.
 
We are on the fast track to the top.
I can tell this not only because of the speedy lines added to the kings logo but our convincing win tonite.
 
Game looked like it was being played by two teams that didnt want to be there.
As i compared and watched a replay of det v pitt the difference in effort level was tremendous.
 
Surf Nutz said:
When are you going to start talking to me?

I am even better than your schmuck club, Mr. president.

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You got it half right.

Turc looks like he is breaking out.

Move him up with vets Danault and Moore now , they will take care of him, and they should be scoring.
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I'll talk to you right now! What makes you think Turcotte is about to "break out" and that a line of Turcotte-Danault-Moore will score? The guy is 23 and has 1 goal in 33 games in the NHL. At this point I'm hoping he'll be a decent replacement for Blake Lizotte.
 
This shouldn't come as much of a surprise but we are weak at wing.

Arvidsson was one of the most underrated players in the NHL and still is.

60 point wingers who can be effective on the PP AND are right shots are pretty rare. ESPECIALLY on this franchise. Those are tough shoes to fill.

"Replacing" Arvidsson with Laferriere isn't a thing. It's unfair to Laf, different roles anyway. And he's CERTAINLY not replaced by Jeannot. That's a big gaping hole that hurts badly with Vilardi and Arvidsson gone and with no reinforcement on the way. Maybe Thomas helps, but we wouldn't know since we have to have Bernie on the 4th line.

This team is going to struggle its ass off to score all year and there is almost no way to address that very very visible weakness. You can't check the puck into the net. We've tried.
 
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