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GDT: Anaheim Ducks at Los Angeles Kings - January 17, 2015 - 7:00 p.m. (PST)

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Still not sweating. I expected to be out of a playoff spot by the Allstar break. Right on schedule :P

This has shown us our team's weaknesses and very clear areas to fix. I knew we were in deep water at the beginning of the season when other teams took a step forward. In any sport, if you're not getting better, you're getting worse. Not saying we should have done anything drastic, but an addition beyond McNabb would have been nice.

Either way, I hope the Kings got Bruce's memo about "We're not scared to play them anymore." Ballsy claim.
 
Brad Doty said:
Still not sweating. I expected to be out of a playoff spot by the Allstar break. Right on schedule :P

This has shown us our team's weaknesses and very clear areas to fix. I knew we were in deep water at the beginning of the season when other teams took a step forward. In any sport, if you're not getting better, you're getting worse. Not saying we should have done anything drastic, but an addition beyond McNabb would have been nice.

Either way, I hope the Kings got Bruce's memo about "We're not scared to play them anymore." Ballsy claim.
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That's what I have always thought. We didn't do much in the offseason after a super hard postseason and other competitors did. I have always thought that we needed a young skilled top line/6 winger (like a Patrick Kane style) and another top 4 defensemen to play with Voynov to be a complete team.
 
All other crap aside, not really mad about tonight's game in a vacuum. Looked like every other game we've played vs. one another lately--tight, one-goal, goes to OT--the difference was winning in OT in the playoffs. I'd expect the same in another series w/them, every game being a 1-goal game. The problem is obviously that it's getting to be a tired refrain getting one point games but I thought we played very strong.
 
parineum said:
I realize this is (mostly) a joke but if you pull the goalie in OT and get scored on you do not get the loser point.
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Happened to the KINGS back in 2003. Andy Murray pulled Huet in OT against Columbus.

Columbus scored, and the KINGS were not awarded a point.
 
Brad Doty said:
Still not sweating. I expected to be out of a playoff spot by the Allstar break. Right on schedule :P

This has shown us our team's weaknesses and very clear areas to fix. I knew we were in deep water at the beginning of the season when other teams took a step forward. In any sport, if you're not getting better, you're getting worse. Not saying we should have done anything drastic, but an addition beyond McNabb would have been nice.

Either way, I hope the Kings got Bruce's memo about "We're not scared to play them anymore." Ballsy claim.
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I'll say it. Dean should have done something drastic, and we all know what that something drastic should have been. The team would have been a lot better off keeping Mitchell and buying out the 4th line center.
 
Brad Doty said:
Still not sweating. I expected to be out of a playoff spot by the Allstar break. Right on schedule :P

This has shown us our team's weaknesses and very clear areas to fix. I knew we were in deep water at the beginning of the season when other teams took a step forward. In any sport, if you're not getting better, you're getting worse. Not saying we should have done anything drastic, but an addition beyond McNabb would have been nice.

Either way, I hope the Kings got Bruce's memo about "We're not scared to play them anymore." Ballsy claim.
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Meh they are tough guys during the regular season.
 
KingsFan7824 said:
The NHL is already to only league that fundamentally changes the rules when a game goes into OT. Players are taken off the ice, as a rule. That would be like taking out the left fielder or 2nd baseman when a baseball game goes extra innings, just to open things up.

Everything after regulation is a gimmick now. That's why both teams get a point after 60 minutes. It's not a loser point, it's a gimmick point. The problem with hockey is that you get 1 goal per shot, and 90+% of shots don't go in. Unlike the NBA or NFL, where there are multiple ways to score different amounts of points, and baseball, where you can get 4 runs on a single hit.
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I think you hinted at what the solution should be if the NHL wants fewer overtimes and especially fewer shootouts. There either needs to be more scoring, a greater variety in points, or some combination of the two.

I'm sure this wont be a popular opinion but if I were the NHL, instead of taking a player off the ice in overtime, I would consider tweaking the offsides rule. There are a lot of times where a team has momentum carrying the puck into the O zone only to have it nipped in the bud because of a close offsides rule, and other times players have to wait to enter the O zone so they don't have momentum. I know they want the offsides rule to prevent camping, but maybe they should utilize both blue lines - make it so that the puck doesn't have to enter the O zone before the players, maybe it just needs to be out of the D zone before other players can enter the O zone. That alone would help scoring some.

The only other thing I can think might make a significant difference would be to expand the size of the goal a little.

I'm sure anything that increases scoring will help decrease the number of OT and SO games we're seeing.
 
KINGS17 said:
I'll say it. Dean should have done something drastic, and we all know what that something drastic should have been. The team would have been a lot better off keeping Mitchell and buying out the 4th line center.
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I was surprised at how easily they let Mitchell go.
 
scryan said:
NICE! an excuse to send that guy down and call up some kid for a shot?
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I would give that Bodnarchuk kid a shot played a few games with the Bruins.and a mature player.
He can skate , great first passer and has fantastic stats over the last two seasons with manchester,

smallish stature but tough
watched Sami Vatanan tonight nothing wrong with his play with and big LA team

other than Martinez who rode the pine because he wasn't a huge slow skating D

the game is getting faster every year and these big slow skating D are getting beat to the puck and position far too often.

watch DL will trade for a big retread that another team wants to dump.

Also Schultz is not that bad Muzzin makes more brain fart mistakes every game than schultz does.Then he lets a booming shot go scores and all forgotten.
just that everyone needs a whipping boy and Schultz is the poster child not right.
 
MynameisKing said:
As of right now, the Ducks looked more fresh, younger, and faster than the Kings. Our depth has taken a horrible hit this year.
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I thought the Ducks were in road game mode hockey last night. Didn't really come forechecking after the Kings last night! And almost lost. I think if they weren't on a back to back, they would have had even more jump.
 
burnstick said:
I would give that Bodnarchuk kid a shot played a few games with the Bruins.and a mature player.
He can skate , great first passer and has fantastic stats over the last two seasons with manchester,

smallish stature but tough
watched Sami Vatanan tonight nothing wrong with his play with and big LA team

other than Martinez who rode the pine because he wasn't a huge slow skating D

the game is getting faster every year and these big slow skating D are getting beat to the puck and position far too often.

watch DL will trade for a big retread that another team wants to dump.

Also Schultz is not that bad Muzzin makes more brain fart mistakes every game than schultz does.Then he lets a booming shot go scores and all forgotten.
just that everyone needs a whipping boy and Schultz is the poster child not right.
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I don't know how you can complain in one breath about big slow dmen then praise Schultz over Muzzin. Muzzin has had his issues over the last stretch but he is a FAR superior option to Schultz. Since Schultz has entered the lineup, Muzzin has had turnover issues with the puck no doubt, but Schultz has had hockey issues. Last night he was more effective defensively than he was the previous few nights I'll grant him that. But even on Muzzins worst day he can move the puck very well. Schultz last night, point aside, was worthless with the puck. He would lob grenades past our forwards and couldn't deliver a pass without flubbing it. He couldn't even get it out of the Zone most times which is what led to so much pressure necessitating his defensive play Anyway.

In short, I cannot wait until Schultz is gone. He is only here living on equity built up from last year against the ducks. Granted he's our #9 and really only "defensive" d Callup but he's in the lineup oozing around doing nothing right now so you'd better believe I'm gonna complain when I see garbage play from him.

Though in all I sure agree about puck moving dmen in general. The game doesn't have room for having plodders on each line anymore. Big physical dmen can also play the game heads up with anyone
 
Amazing Schultz played 24 minutes last night, and McNabb and Greene were down around 11 or 12. I think this showed somewhat the lack of energy brought to the game by the Ducks. Schultz is not as much of a liability when the game slows way down. Which is why DS gave him the minutes. I think Greene and McnAbb could have handled the pace also, but I really don't ever get the feeling DS likes either of the two's game right now.
 
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