GDT: 2024-25 Season game 79 LA Kings vs Colorado Avalanche @1:00pm 4/12/25

[Bandit]

Surprised we've received 2 goals in our favor in the last couple games.

Just prepping us to get piped in the playoffs.

 

[BrokenSticky]

Wait what no way, when you move there is a little bit of more space to create. It cant be /s

 

[kingsholygrail]

Fiala!

 

[Sol]

fiala is on fire

 

[Bandit]

Fifi!

 

[FrozenKing18]

Nasty shot

 

[bland]

Kuuuuuzz

 

[Shellz]

Beautiful

 

[Schmooley]

Never been big on a 5 forward powerplay but this is the best option for the Kings. They look dangerous and confident together.

 

[Sol]

Jim with an excellent explanation. I never knew how to explain it where North American players are so boring with their movement, and then you have players like Fiala and Kuzmenko.

"European players hands and feet move in different directions" Really well put by Jim. I wonder why NA hasn't caught onto that. That has such good utility.

 

[kingsholygrail]

Time for the box parade.

 

[Bandit]

Stoops.

 

[Sol]

Anderson really dropped the ball on that. Why are you on your knees that long and stationary. That guy had ten years to get it over him.

 

[King'sPawn]

Jim with an excellent explanation. I never knew how to explain it where North American players are so boring with their movement, and then you have players like Fiala and Kuzmenko.

"European players hands and feet move in different directions" Really well put by Jim. I wonder why NA hasn't caught onto that. That has such good utility.

I'm thinking a lot of the reason is European ice rinks are bigger. So there's different training and systems where they spend more of their lives learning these techniques.

In North America, ice is smaller, and so there's more needed coordination to facilitate thinking quickly than moving quickly.

 

[shuchukfan]

I'm sick of the defenders going down like that.

 

[Sol]

I'm thinking a lot of the reason is European ice rinks are bigger. So there's different training and systems where they spend more of their lives learning these techniques.

In North America, ice is smaller, and so there's more needed coordination to facilitate thinking quickly than moving quickly.

I think the payoff in the NHL is huge though. I feel like being unpredictable opens up ice regardless of rink size. Its funny how they dont have that ability. You look at McDavid and he's not a deceptive player at all, but his edge work and acceleration loses the shadowing player easily. If McDavid had some European flair. watcccch out.

 

[Sol]

I'm sick of the defenders going down like that.

I think the Dmen who are good at it should do it. Anderson looked really bad doing it. Gavrikov and Doughty are great at it because they know exactly when to do it. Then you have a player like Anderson who does it pre-emptively and looks like a beer leaguer who cant read timing.

 

[Sol]

Any other player would get tossed around for hitting the goalie. Since it's Kopitar the other guy is trying to help him away from the goalie lol. That's respect.

 

[dabeechman]

Wee Burroughs...

 

[Little Psycho]

That’s a stupid call

 

[AbsentMojo]

Burroughs is trash but that is weak as hell

 

[shuchukfan]

Kuemper's streak will probably end today, of all days.

 

[Bandit]

Burroughs is f***ing useless.

 

[dabeechman]

Kuemper's streak will probably end today, of all days.

As soon as I saw the game on the schedule, I knew...

 

[AbsentMojo]

LA continual lack of SOG is concerning.. drive play sometimes you rope a dopers