GDT: 2024-25 season game 76 LA Kings vs Edmonton Oilers @1:00pm 4/5/25

[CarlSneep]

 

[Schmooley]

"easy"

0/4 on the PP
Oilers embarrassingly outshot and out chanced us even without all of their best players and a .900 career journeyman in net

Kings had more shots and hits than them. The Oilers didnt generate anything dangerous. You are overreacting in some ways.
If the Kings had a good powerplay that game is way more lopsided. The powerplay will be the Kings downfall. And when Mcdavids back they will draw more penalties and score on all of theirs.

 

[Lt Dan]

I gotta say, Adolph Hiller has done a masterclass with Fiala




He is trying to give Kevin full credit here but shaving that awful moustache can't be discounted either

 

[johnjm22]

With Fiala it was never a question of effort. This is not a Dubois situation.

In the back half of last year KF was showing improvement in the areas his critics find most frustrating, but was losing his offense in the process.

Recently however he seems to have put it all together. He was dangerous all day without being a defensive liability. An aberration? Or are we getting Fiala v2.0?

I mentioned it a few weeks ago, but on the NYR broadcast they said LA's coaches have spent much time in the film room with him.

 

[AbsentMojo]

Welp.

Thats blows esp re Jeannot.. i had a feeling it wasnt good by his reaction as he skated to the bench.. never saw the play that caused it - heard it was a shot block attempt

 

[johnjm22]

Oilers have played a ton of hockey in recent years. I think they care more about resting their guys than getting home ice advantage.

I wonder if Pickard is an upgrade over Skinner?

He's played really solid since March:

Calvin Pickard 2024-25 Stats per Game - NHL - ESPN

The 2024-25 NHL season stats per game for Calvin Pickard of the Edmonton Oilers on ESPN. Includes full stats, per opponent, for regular and postseason.

www.espn.com

 

[GoldenBearHockey]

A win is a win, but if EDM had a healthy team that game is a loss 20 out of 10 games every time. Kings did not play well by any stretch of the imagination

 

[johnjm22]

LA was clearly the better team (as they should be considering EDM's injuries), but my biggest concern after watching that game is Doughty and Byfield.

QB has to find "it" again, and Drew's mobility is cringe to watch (he did look decent in the 4nations though).

 

[Telos]

Couldn't have happened to a better group of guys... GKG,! Hell yeah! f*** Edmonton.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

Kings had more shots and hits than them. The Oilers didnt generate anything dangerous. You are overreacting in some ways.
If the Kings had a good powerplay that game is way more lopsided. The powerplay will be the Kings downfall. And when Mcdavids back they will draw more penalties and score on all of theirs.

More hits means they're chasing. They only had more shots because of the pp; at 5v5 the Oilers generated more than the Kings. And htat's a problem given theyr'e missing the two best players in the world AND their best dman while playing a reskinned David Rittich in net. And while the Kings are the best home team in the league...we barely saw why tonight.

It doesn't need to be a picasso to get two points, that's fine. But I'm looking for some pushback against a team that psychologically ruins them and I didn't see it today. They got by. That's it. It's pretty discouraging.

 

[kingsfan28]

"easy"

0/4 on the PP
Oilers embarrassingly outshot and out chanced us even without all of their best players and a .900 career journeyman in net

I said before the game I was more interested in the process than the result...the result was 'fine.' The process was awful. There's nothing encouraging in that game to be found going forwards vs. a healthy oilers other than Kuemper being nuts. Kings got pushed around and largely outplayed vs. a completely decimated team at home.

I've never seen anyone dump on a 3-0 win before. The King out shot them and put 3 by their back up in a shutout win, who f-ing cares if it was the back up, Skinner isn't much better with his amazing .895 sv pct this year. They already beat Skinner once with a fully healthy line up, and it would not have mattered if he was in net. In the 3 games they've played, the Oilers have 1 pp goal and lost.

the 0/4 on the pp has been problematic all year, it's nothing new. They still won.

 

[shuchukfan]

Welp.

MOTHERF...

 

[All The Kings Men]

third place

you sure bout that?

 

[Little Psycho]

It’s hilarious watching Kuzy yapping to a stoic Kempe every game

 

[Sol]

The 4th line has been very good even with the absences.

Relax chief. They did okay considering that Edmontons important players weren’t there. Glad we got the 2 points. Wish it was more of a one sided game.

 

[Sol]

LA was clearly the better team (as they should be considering EDM's injuries), but my biggest concern after watching that game is Doughty and Byfield.

QB has to find "it" again, and Drew's mobility is cringe to watch (he did look decent in the 4nations though).

1. Super frustrating that just as Byfield looked like he was turning the corner from his bullshit high highs and low lows that he yet again becomes a non factor. I know the recent high was higher than it’s been but man to be so invisible again is disappointing.


2. Drew has awful mobility. I have no idea why he’s playing because he’s not helpful at all. Every pivot looks like hes trying to pry his feet from the grasp of the ice.

 

[King'sPawn]

It would be more ideal to have a bigger win against a team who was depleted by so much. But you can only do what you can with what's in front of you.

They won. And when the stakes are raised, so too do we hope their intensity will match it.

 

[kingsfan28]

The face of a man who had their 1st NHL goal taken away;
Not sure why they didn't get a pp out of it when he got tripped before the move.

 

[Fripp]

It’s hilarious watching Kuzy yapping to a stoic Kempe every game

That was awesome. "Shut the f*** up" was all over his face.

 

[bland]

More hits means they're chasing. They only had more shots because of the pp; at 5v5 the Oilers generated more than the Kings. And htat's a problem given theyr'e missing the two best players in the world AND their best dman while playing a reskinned David Rittich in net. And while the Kings are the best home team in the league...we barely saw why tonight.

It doesn't need to be a picasso to get two points, that's fine. But I'm looking for some pushback against a team that psychologically ruins them and I didn't see it today. They got by. That's it. It's pretty discouraging.

You expected something different than what you got. That's the only thing to read out of this because the Kings just easily won this game. Edmonton never threatened to control more than one shift at a time.

Pragmatism has its place in sports. You win the games in how they are presented to you. I don't see how anybody watching this game ever had the outcome in doubt. This isn't a fire and fury squad, you get control with flashes of brilliance from the 24-25 Kings.

Imagine, the team with the 6th most points in the NHL just shut out their opponent for home ice - while chasing a division title - in a game in which the opponent offered nothing significant and you are worried about style points?

 

[johnjm22]

If watching the LA Kings was a movie, Jeff Malott would be the 'Every Man' character. A stand in for the audience. The guy you're supposed to relate to.

He acts the way any of us would if we got to live the dream of being in the NHL. He's just stoked to be there. It makes him very likeable.

Seeing that goal taken away sucked.

 

[chris kontos]

Im glad we won. I dont know how much of a measuring stick game that was against a team without 90% of tbier first line. No progress on the power play unfortunately. Onward and upward into the playoffs

 

[ru4reals]

Welp.

Meaning it's a benching for Turcotte. Cuz Lewis have been on a tear. Lol.

 

[Lt Dan]

Welp.

 

[chris kontos]

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