GDT: 2024-25 season game 14 LA Kings Minnesota Wild @5:00pm 11/5/24

[Schmooley]

While byfield has been disappointing, if he puts up 40-50 pts as center it is a win in my book

His production will go up. These last 3 games hes been getting better and will be back on track.
The streaky play is a bit concerning though.
Kings cant afford this from Byfield when Kopitar retires as there is no one else in the pipeline and a steady 1c is a necessity.

 

[bouncesonly]

Kings have only given up 1 goal in the last two games.

This is an excellent road win.

Friggin' Rittich

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

His production will go up. These last 3 games hes been getting better and will be back on track.
The streaky play is a bit concerning though.
Kings cant afford this from Byfield when Kopitar retires as there is no one else in the pipeline and a steady 1c is a necessity.

I'll be more worried about that when he's in that actual role rather than 2C/3C.

Right now he's getting 2nd unit PP time and 2nd unit PK time and at least for the latter him and Foegele are arguably the best in the league at it thus far.

not to excuse the production, but I think it'll come, and he's now back on track and doing literally everything else well. And it seemed like he started feeling himself again after tonight's goal.

 

[FSL KINGS]

This is truly an historic evening!!!!
I'm on record not believing it would happen.
Lewis with 100 & 101 before his 1,000 games! Coming up huge Lewie!!!!

Chaos hockey seems to be working. Carry on.

 

[kingsfan28]

This is truly an historic evening!!!!
I'm on record not believing it would happen.
Lewis with 100 & 101 before his 1,000 games! Coming up huge Lewie!!!!

Chaos hockey seems to be working. Carry on.

Didn't have him on my bingo card, especially scoring 2.

 

[kingsfan28]

Laffy is actually insane.

Him being a right shot is just a bonus.

He's 7 goals and 9 points ahead of new Oiler Victor Arvission.

 

[Lt Dan]

I credit coaching for this win.
They didn't give up after a really bad first

 

[CarlSneep]

Kings have done a really good job protecting the high danger area the last few games

 

[Schmooley]

Chaos hockey seems to be working. Carry on.

Yea it really is working. You cant get a scouting report on them. They play different every game. They even look different every period within in the same game.

 

[Frolov 6'3]

Quite remarkable being 8-3-3 with SV% of .899 & .844.

Though Minny is not an elite team.

 

[cyclones22]

I'll be more worried about that when he's in that actual role rather than 2C/3C.

Right now he's getting 2nd unit PP time and 2nd unit PK time and at least for the latter him and Foegele are arguably the best in the league at it thus far.

not to excuse the production, but I think it'll come, and he's now back on track and doing literally everything else well. And it seemed like he started feeling himself again after tonight's goal.

Byfield is an absolute menace on the PK. He's going to be one of the best PK'ers in the league by end of the season. Hiller really needs to send him out there as a winger on Kopi or Phil's line when the other team pulls their goaltender because his puck pursuit and reach causes all sorts of problems. Sutter would do similar things and send out Kopi, Carter and Richards to kill a game. Hiller needs to do the same because coughing up leads in the last minute is annoying AF.

 

[lumbergh]

This is a little random, but one of my favorite new features of the NHL website is their "Goal Visualizer", which allows you to watch the movements of the puck and all players on the ice from overhead when the goal is scored. I wondered if anyone went to pick up the puck just after Lewis scored his 100th goal, but I couldn't see any Kings player doing that during the broadcast. I went to the highlights and couldn't see it either, so I clicked on the EDGE | Goal Visualizer for Lewis's goal.

Turns out #7, Kyle Burroughs went straight over to pick up the puck, which is why he's late to the celly hug.

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Props to Burroughs for being a good vet teammate there. Nice pass from Jeannot to get Lewis the puck. Also love how excited Lewis was to score that goal.

I hope this fourth line really comes together.