GDT: 2024-25 season game 20 LA Kings vs Buffalo Sabres @7:30pm
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Hopefully, there is an injury or something repairable behind Byfield's regression, but it doesn't look good for now. He definitely looks like a little bit of PLD rubbed off on him as some of those penalties and plays look like there was laziness or unfocused apathy. He looks more like his bunny hopping and gliding to the bench days than the player last season that constantly hounded the puck and drove to the net. If there is no injury then it is 100% mental with him and they need to address it fast.
The Butcher
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I typically like to have more respect for the players but Fiala stinks. He's proven to be unreliable and too old to figure it out at this point. I thought it was weird we brought in the reckless guy that injured Mikey Anderson edit Roy. I'm not sure I'll ever be on board with a player like him.
Byfeild is a different story to me. He's still young enough sort things out. Sure, it's concerning but not on the level of Kevin Fiala.
Byfeild is a different story to me. He's still young enough sort things out. Sure, it's concerning but not on the level of Kevin Fiala.
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i have never laughed so hard watching a hockey game as i have laughed watching kevin fiala.
he would be a great subject for a slap shot-like movie.
i really hope the kings keep him just for the belly laughs
he would be a great subject for a slap shot-like movie.
i really hope the kings keep him just for the belly laughs
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It’s difficult to put a reasonable argument against any of that. It seems such an easy decision at this point. If they want to try him at C again later on then fine but right now they need him confident and playing a role he’s comfortable with.
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Definitely weird but on brand for Blake. He's completely tone deaf to shit like this and doesn't vet "winning culture" type players like Lombardi did. No f***ing way DL trades for PLD or Fiala.
im glad i fell asleep early on and missed what by all accounts was a contest of weakness in pro hockey
Master Yoda
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AbsentMojo
F-ing get up and hunt! Cmon Todd!
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That was a brutal showing last night.
I'm really starting to become fed up with Hiller....
5 forwards on the 1st PP unit and a whooping 0/5 on the PP to show for it. Byfield can't figure it out so Hiller's bending over backwards to try to get him going. I mean Hiller legitimately had Laferriere playing center out there with Foegele and Jeannot just so they could try to get QB some time with Kopi and Kempe.
And then he comes out in the post game presser talking about how great he thought the team played???? Give me a damn break.
Montgomery would have these guys firing on all cylinders within a week of his arrival.
I'm really starting to become fed up with Hiller....
5 forwards on the 1st PP unit and a whooping 0/5 on the PP to show for it. Byfield can't figure it out so Hiller's bending over backwards to try to get him going. I mean Hiller legitimately had Laferriere playing center out there with Foegele and Jeannot just so they could try to get QB some time with Kopi and Kempe.
And then he comes out in the post game presser talking about how great he thought the team played???? Give me a damn break.
Montgomery would have these guys firing on all cylinders within a week of his arrival.
shuchukfan
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Buffalo played a good road game and didn't give the Kings much room, so I have to give them credit for that. It was frustrating to watch, though. I really need to stop watching games live (on TV). Why waste around 3 hours when I can just watch a recording and be done with it in an hour or less?
kingsfan28
Its A Kingspiracy !
So glad I missed this game. What an awful effort, worst of the bad losses, It's like they phoned it in from the start. Losing to Buffalo again, and getting shut out! Bag skate'm all I say.
Buddy The Elf
Kings!
I left a few minutes into the third period. That game was beyond boring. Luckily, I used the tickets they give you from the "birthday club" so I only forked out about $75 to upgrade to 200 level seats. That said, I dropped another $150 or so on drinks and food which I normally don't do.
I don't expect them to win every game but after about 10 minutes I kept repeating to myself "snoozefest" to the point it annoyed the old man in front of me who said "i get it". Literally nothing happening the entire game even with a bunch of PP's.
The only game that I can think of that I've been to that was more boring than this was sometime around 2007 or 2008 when the Kings played CBJ and the shot total was 6 to 3 after two periods.
Lt Dan
F*** your ice cream!
Raccoon Jesus
We were right there
Yeah the only game i can remember nearly as boring and frustrating simultaneously as this one was
Canucks 1-0 Kings (Mar 23, 2013) Final Score - ESPN
Game summary of the Vancouver Canucks vs. Los Angeles Kings NHL game, final score 1-0, from March 23, 2013 on ESPN.
Canucks only had 13 shots on goal, Kings only had 20...canucks were missing Edler to suspension, Kesler, Booth, kassian, Higgins, Pinizzotto, and were so depleted they had Keith Ballard playing wing. Kings lost 1-0. But in that one the Canucks scored relatively early so just let the air out for the rest of the game.
AbsentMojo
F-ing get up and hunt! Cmon Todd!
It's gotta just be me at this point, but I don't get how you watch a hockey game, an NHL game, and think...snoozefest...or it's boring, regardless if it's 1-0 or 9-8.....
Granted, games vary greatly, I get that part of it, but man, any game of hockey, isn't boring. Last night certainly wasn't boring, even though we didn't win, there were some good spots, some bad spots, some mediocre spots, but unless you guys have a crystal ball I don't, that's the beauty of sport, you just don't know....not gonna spell it right, so the BUF goalie, he made some incredible stops, LA made some dumbass plays trying to pass into the net, but they made some nice plays that he had to be sharp on, it was tight game, no space out there....it was a fastish....game in terms of guys moving etc.
How is that boring?
Granted, games vary greatly, I get that part of it, but man, any game of hockey, isn't boring. Last night certainly wasn't boring, even though we didn't win, there were some good spots, some bad spots, some mediocre spots, but unless you guys have a crystal ball I don't, that's the beauty of sport, you just don't know....not gonna spell it right, so the BUF goalie, he made some incredible stops, LA made some dumbass plays trying to pass into the net, but they made some nice plays that he had to be sharp on, it was tight game, no space out there....it was a fastish....game in terms of guys moving etc.
How is that boring?
Bandit
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Surf Nutz
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Nick Nickson thrice hexed the Kings with the they will be in first place spell.
I liked Faust better at least the one we had towards the end of his last season.
How long does "time winding down" really happen for?
Is Shafer called up next season?
I hope not.
I liked Faust better at least the one we had towards the end of his last season.
How long does "time winding down" really happen for?
Is Shafer called up next season?
I hope not.
SettlementRichie10
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Everything about this Blake/Luc era has been an abject failure.
Raccoon Jesus
We were right there
except profits
which is the giant problem
everything sucks, but they're printing money
SettlementRichie10
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Well, they ain’t getting my money at least.
Raccoon Jesus
We were right there
I thnk that's my unfortunate point
we could ALL vote with our wallets and it wouldn't make a dent in their profits
On paper, the only things that matter--we've got a 'playoff team' and they're printing money.
