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GDT: 2024-25 season game 68 LA Kings vs Carolina Hurricanes @1:00pm 3/22/25

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The most important thing about the trade is that it appears to have gotten Kopitar out of the massive slump he was in. I think it's apparent now that he just isn't the same player than car carry a Kyle Calder or Scott Thornton type anymore, even with Kempe, they needed someone who was going to be a threat offensively, credit to Blake for fixing that for only a third.

Kopitar is 3+4 and +3 in 7 1/3 games since the lines were balanced by the Kuzmenko trade.

From January 1st up until that trade Kopitar had gone 2+7 -11 in in 23 games.

The 90 point pace he was on in October and November was not sustainable, but if the Kings can get Kopitar to keep around this pace and not fall back into the disaster he was in, that makes the outlook a lot better.
 
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AbsentMojo said:
that was a clean snipe... end of period goal - nice job
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I know a lot of people here don't value it very much, but that is what he can do, he can snipe off the rush or when given a good amount of dpace, that was a high skill play, you can see on the replay he was trying to do that exactly that, it was nice how he took his time and looked right before firing. I feel like most guys on this team are just aren't making that play, Kempe is probably the only better finisher on the team.

I wish there were more looks like the ones they both scored on so far for guys like Kempe. I think if you put Kempe next to a true star player, that he would be a threat to score 100 points in a place like Colorado or Edmonton.
 
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