GDT: 2024-25 season game 66 LA Kings vs Minnesota Wild @5:00pm 3/17/25

[Surf Nutz]

Laferriere must have some Irish in em.

Triple shot rush, defender saves goalie.

And when he saw the d cheating towards Q and took it right to the net.

King need to do better, too many chances Wild

 

[kingsholygrail]

Such bullshit.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

Maybe that’ll wake these guys up

 

[Schmooley]

They said they wanted to play better defense on the road and went back to trapping. They look shit sitting back in the trap and it still doesnt make then any better in their own zone. I hope this trapping is not the new norm on the road.

 

[Bandit]

Such bullshit.

That the kings are letting a team missing half their best guys to hang with them?

I agree.

 

[Bandit]

Too long Moore. Gotta one touch that pass.

 

[Bandit]

Kopitar skating like he was born in 1948.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

Six men in the zone for like thirty seconds come on

Okay they got it

 

[Bandit]

Lol. Kings only have 2 pp goals in the same game 1 time this year. Pathetic.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

Maybe that’ll wake these guys up

Guess not

About to turn this one off

 

[AbsentMojo]

The reason DD can play so many minutes is not because of fitness, its because he never skates hard. In fact DL told him his fitness habit needed to improve that was his one big critique after he drafted him.

 

[Telos]

I am lovin' where Fiala is at. Hope he can keep it up through the playoffs.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

Fiala feeling it all shift…stick explodes to end shift

That kind of night eh

 

[AbsentMojo]

To me Byfield stood out on the shift as much as Fiala.. but all 3 of those guys work hard every shift.

 

[Schmooley]

Jeannot has some of the worst hands in the league. Can barely take or give a pass.

 

[King'sPawn]

This is wrong. Your aerobic and anaerobic are by far the most efficient in your early 20s and that should also be the most easy to improve. If he’s struggling with workload at his current age then it’s likely he just doesn’t have that extra gear genetically. Your stamina is at its peak in your early 20s and it starts dropping off more around 25. However your physical maturity/strength tends to be at its peak around 25-28. Strength and stamina are two different animals. I could do stuff in my early 20s that I cannot replicate now despite the fact I’m in better shape and train a lot harder in my early 30s

It's very different for a professional athlete. And it's his second full professional season. Expecting a 22 year-old second-year NHLer to be at his peak physical fitness is one of the most absurd expectations.

Edit: Also, professional athletes typically hit their peak in their late 20s/early 30s.

 

[AbsentMojo]

Kuzmenko looks fine to me... Id swap him w Laf and let Kuzmenko work with some faster thinkers out there. He looks pretty good at puck retrievals too.

 

[Sol]

It's very different for a professional athlete. And it's his second full professional season. Expecting a 22 year-old second-year NHLer to be at his peak physical fitness is one of the most absurd expectations.

Edit: Also, professional athletes typically hit their peak in their late 20s/early 30s.

um, I said that. Your stamina and endurance peak in your early 20s especially as a professional athlete and your physical ability in the sense of strength/muscle develop in your mid 20s-30. Physical ability are 2 different things. Don’t get them mixed.

 

[DoktorJeep]

Who’s smaller, Spurgeon or Faber?

 

[Bandit]

It’s not enough that Doughty gets all his point shots blocked on the PP. He’s now going to the slot to block his teammate’s shots too.

 

[Bandit]

Danault thought borrowing Fiala’s mustache was a good thing?

 

[King'sPawn]

um, I said that. Your stamina and endurance peak in your early 20s especially as a professional athlete and your physical ability in the sense of strength/muscle develop in your mid 20s-30. Physical ability are 2 different things. Don’t get them mixed.

Aside from your personal anecdote of not being as fit now as you are in your early 20s, what evidence and studies do you have about professional athletes peaking in their early 20s?

I have these:

At the Tokyo Olympics, 28-year-old Richard Carapaz of Ecuador won the men's Olympic cycling road race, and 27-year-old Peres Jepchirchir of Kenya won the women's marathon.

"From an endurance point of view, you often peak in your mid-to-late 20s and into your 30s," said sports physiologist Garry Palmer, who runs Sportstest, a sports performance center in Cannock, England.

At what age does athleticism peak in different sports?

The Paris Olympics welcome the strongest, fastest and sharpest athletes in the world. But to what extent does age raise or lessen their chances of gold?

www.livescience.com

These decades have also been a time during which thetypical Olympian has become older (Figure 1). Since 1992,the average age of participants increased by two years,from 25 to 27.

https://cepar.edu.au/sites/default/files/peak-performance-age-sport.pdf

The age of peak athletic performance varies widely across different sports and between sexes/genders, typically ranging from 20 to 30 years old. While the peak performance age in men has remained remarkably stable since the first Olympic games in 1896, it has increased in women over the past 20–30 years (Elmenshawy et al., 2015). Alpine skiing, in particular, is a relatively under-researched sport in the realm of winter Olympic sports. A study by De Larochelambert et al. analyzed competition data from the French Ski Federation and found that the peak performance age for this sport was 24.8 years, similar to other summer sports. By using a data-driven approach, the researchers were able to identify four different types of progression curves that are clustered according to the performance level and progression per age. The results of this study will help athletes and coaches to better detect and predict potential of Alpine skiers.

Editorial: Growth, peaking, and aging of competitive athletes - PMC

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

The study, published in the journal Significance, found that the average age of Olympic athletes, particularly in track and field, is just under 27. The research also found that 27 is the median age at which these athletes reach their peak performance.

When Do Olympic Athletes Peak?

Researchers at the University of Waterloo in Canada found Olympic track-and-field athletes peak at age 27. Here's why some athletes peak at this age and factors that could cause this age to fluctuate.

www.verywellhealth.com

 

[DoktorJeep]

Kuemper’s been excellent. Really feels like the year that we take the Oilers to 7 games in round one. Reminiscent of the last year Jon Quick was the #1G.

 

[Bandit]

We’re gonna lose this one aren’t we?

 

[Vote4Lubo]

The reason DD can play so many minutes is not because of fitness, its because he never skates hard. In fact DL told him his fitness habit needed to improve that was his one big critique after he drafted him.

True, at the 4 nations there was a dead puck in the d-zone. Instead of Doughty skating towards it to push the play up the ice. He waited for Hagel to fetch him the puck so he can slow the game down ( Hagel was a couple strides up the ice too and had to turn around). Love Drew he will be the best dman the kings ever have, but that mentality kills momentum and creativity. Especially watching him on the PP.