GDT: Capitals @ Kings 3/11/17 7:30 p.m. PT; FS-W, CSN-DC+, NHL.TV

[Bandit]

I like Iginla's sandpaper. The Kings have lost that recently.

 

[kilowatt]

So chopping a guy's stick out of his hands is totally legal? Cool. Cool cool cool.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Lot of running around in their own end late in the period. Let's see if we witness another one of their daunting second period breakdowns.

 

[Little Psycho]

A lot of running around

 

[kingsfan28]

So chopping a guy's stick out of his hands is totally legal? Cool. Cool cool cool.

My god that was so obvious! Even Johanson was looking around as if waiting for the call.

 

[KingsFan7824]

So Sutter does allow Kopitar to make moves to the middle of the ice.

 

[kingsfan28]

A lot of running around

MIght not want to turn the puck over so much in the 2nd. Seems like all of them turn into scoring chances for the Caps.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

So Sutter does allow Kopitar to make moves to the middle of the ice.

I think Kopitar prefers to take long skates around the perimeter. Makes me scratch my head as to why he doesn't take it to the middle of the ice as much as he used to.

 

[kingsfan28]

I think Kopitar prefers to take long skates around the perimeter. Makes me scratch my head as to why he doesn't take it to the middle of the ice as much as he used to.

That's been his move for years, he won't even attempt a shot anymore.

 

[Telos]

Go Kings Go! I am at Staples tonight to make sure we get the win!

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

That's been his move for years, he won't even attempt a shot anymore.

Rookie Kopitar was fearless, going one on one against Chris Pronger and fending him off with a wide stance.

Goes to show you the impact of aging and what it does to players. Sadly that's also what happened to guys like Forsberg and Fedorov once they got up there.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

This is the kind of game where it's apparent Sutterhockey no longer really works for this team.

I've seen 3-4 different ways of beating Sutterhockey this year and part of why we were so successful in the past--stubborn adherence to system, trying to slam a square peg into a round hole hard enough that you finally break a ****ing square in the wall--is part of what's undoing us lately. It's predictable, but we aren't executing; it's stale, there's no passion; and we've gotten away from the kind of personnel that made that system work. Love the guy, best coach in Kings' history, probably too late to fire him and maybe he deserves to ride off on his own into the sunset anyway, but I watched that whole first period completely red with anger as I watched Capitals strategically fly the zone, put a d-man where the puck was going to end up, and just play pond hockey all over the gaps. Part of it is their individual skill absolutely, but they're being led by a coach who knows exactly how to use those talented players to just expose every hole. Meanwhile, I could draw every play the Kings will use coming out of their end on one 8x11 paper, and we're no longer big enough to bully the other team, fast enough to beat them to the spots, or skilled enough to improvise in a way that will lose them. We've completely lost our identity to pick up more speed.

...I mean it's 1 to 1 but if we win this game it's a miracle.

 

[Bandit]

Embarrassing.

 

[Little Psycho]

Might as well put a welcome mate in our zone.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

That was embarrassing, but typical Kings 2nd period already.

 

[kingsfan28]

Danced right by everyone. Oshie cleans up the garbage after a Quick save.

2-1

 

[Winger23]

Doughty in watch mode.

 

[Bandit]

4 Kings standing around watching Forbort try to play defense.

 

[PJ Kings Hockey]

So would we say Forbort got undressed there? Craps 2-1.

 

[Little Psycho]

This is the kind of game where it's apparent Sutterhockey no longer really works for this team.

I've seen 3-4 different ways of beating Sutterhockey this year and part of why we were so successful in the past--stubborn adherence to system, trying to slam a square peg into a round hole hard enough that you finally break a ****ing square in the wall--is part of what's undoing us lately. It's predictable, but we aren't executing; it's stale, there's no passion; and we've gotten away from the kind of personnel that made that system work. Love the guy, best coach in Kings' history, probably too late to fire him and maybe he deserves to ride off on his own into the sunset anyway, but I watched that whole first period completely red with anger as I watched Capitals strategically fly the zone, put a d-man where the puck was going to end up, and just play pond hockey all over the gaps. Part of it is their individual skill absolutely, but they're being led by a coach who knows exactly how to use those talented players to just expose every hole. Meanwhile, I could draw every play the Kings will use coming out of their end on one 8x11 paper, and we're no longer big enough to bully the other team, fast enough to beat them to the spots, or skilled enough to improvise in a way that will lose them. We've completely lost our identity to pick up more speed.

...I mean it's 1 to 1 but if we win this game it's a miracle.

Sutter hockey needs to be put to sleep. There's no creative or skill, once they win the puck, they just dump it in cos god forbid they have a smart game plan.

 

[KingsFan7824]

Sutter sucked the creativity from the players on the goal against.

 

[Bandit]

So would we say Forbort got undressed there? Craps 2-1.

Maybe but Doughty never had his pants on in the first place.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

I wish Doughty never won that Norris Trophy, his head is so far up his own ass now.

 

[HookKing]

So would we say Forbort got undressed there? Craps 2-1.

No because the puck carrier didn't score on him or even get a good shot off. Oshie just beat everyone else to the net. Forbort could have played it better though.

 

[KingsFan7824]

Sutter hockey needs to be put to sleep. There's no creative or skill, once they win the puck, they just dump it in cos god forbid they have a smart game plan.

When Sutter says the team needs more from the top players, he means the top players need to dump the puck in more?