GDT: Game 59: Calgary Flames at Los Angeles Kings | Tuesday, Feb 23 2016 - 7:30PM PT

[KingsKnight]

CALGARY FLAMES @ LOS ANGELES KINGS
Tuesday, Feb 23 2016 - 7:30PM PT
Staples Center | Los Angeles, CA
TV: FS-W | Radio: AM 790 KABC

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CALGARY|

LOS ANGELES

(26-29-3 55pts)|

(34-20-4 72pts)
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Gaudreau - Monahan - Hudler |

Lucic - Kopitar - Brown

Colborne - Backlund - Frolik |

King - Carter - Toffoli

Bollig - Bennett - Jooris |

Pearson - Lecavalier - Lewis

Bouma - Stajan - Jones |

Clifford - Shore - Andreoff
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Giordano - Brodie |

Muzzin - Doughty

Engelland - Hamilton |

Martinez - Schenn

Wotherspoon - Nakladal |

McNabb - McBain
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Ortio / Hiller |

Quick / Enroth​

INJURIES
Gaborik is on LTIR for a “lower body injury”.

Nolan is still day-to-day.

NEWS | NOTES
Kopitar was day-to-day with a “lower body injury” but is expected to play tonight.

Today is a Legends Night and the Kings are wearing their gold
throwback jerseys to honor Kings Alumni Mike Donnelly
(more from LAKings Insider).

Legends Night Remaining Schedule:
2/23 vs CGY - Mike Donnelly
3/7 vs VAN - Jimmy Carson

This is the second of four regular season meeting between the clubs.

This Kings finished 3-3-1 for 7 of 14 points on the 7 game Grammy road trip. 2 of the wins came in OT.

MATCHUP
12/31 LAK 4 at CGY 1
2/23 CGY at LAK
3/31 CGY at LAK
4/5 LAK at CGY

|GP|Record|Pts|ROW|Home|Away|Last 10|Streak
LAK|58|34-20-4|72|32|15-10-1|19-10-3|4-5-1|Won 1
CGY|58|26-29-3|55|24|17-13-0|9-16-3|5-5-0|Lost 1

|G/GP|GA/GP|PP%|PK%|S/GP|SA/GP|FOW%
LAK|2.67|2.33|22.2|82.2|32.5|28.2|50.0
CGY|2.72|3.07|15.6|73.2|29.2|29.2|48.4

STANDINGS

# | [pre] Pacific [/pre] | GP |

[pre] W-L-OT [/pre]|PTS|ROW

1|[pre] Los Angeles[/pre]|

58|

34-20-4|

72|

32

2|[pre] Anaheim[/pre]|

58|

31-19-8|

70|

29

3|[pre] San Jose[/pre]|

58|

32-21-5|

69|

29

4|[pre] Arizona[/pre]|

59|

27-26-6|

60|

26

5|[pre] Vancouver[/pre]|

59|

23-24-12|

58|

19

6|[pre] Calgary[/pre]|

58|

26-29-3|

55|

24

7|[pre] Edmonton[/pre]|

60|

22-32-6|

50|

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SEASON SCHEDULE | RESULTS

Disclaimer: “GDT may not be 100% accurate. I got the line combos from your mom. I used to have Center Ice, Gamecenter Live, and an undercover concession worker in each arena, but this **** costs money. I will admit that my pet otter is using all up that money on his worsening opium problem. I try to not be an enabler, but I haven't had a sea urchin problem in months. Then I thought, why should I pay all this money and have a sea urchin problem to appease fans of random teams that I don't even care about anyway? Unless you are willing to take a bunch of sea urchins off of my hands, don't ***** if I get the lines wrong.” - BF​

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[The Night King]

The last time the Kings hosted the Flames in their gold jerseys...

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[Raccoon Jesus]

These Pacific home games, man!

Was gonna add a special column for Flames voodoo/Gaudreau magic but we're ****ed via superstition anyway

hope we don't see Tim Peel or Ortio or we'll owe them points

 

[kingsholygrail]

I will be attending. I expect nothing less than victory.

 

[dbbourn]

Raccoon Jesus

I haven't logged in for ages, but this was gold.

Nicely done

 

[YP44]

not very confident. Not sure why, Calgary sucks but LA plays to competition level. LA is first game back from a long road trip, but Quick has looked real good since he has been back.
So torn.
One thing for sure now that Dustin Brown is back home with his wife and kids he will suck again.

 

[Omni Owl]

not very confident. Not sure why, Calgary sucks but LA plays to competition level. LA is first game back from a long road trip, but Quick has looked real good since he has been back.
So torn.
One thing for sure now that Dustin Brown is back home with his wife and kids he will suck again.

Truth.

 

[YP44]

Sounds like Ortio is starting...so adjust the superstition meter

 

[Reclamation Project]

I've grown tired of every GDT starting off with "We all know how this ends..." posts, but they're so boned tonight.

 

[onlyalad]

i predict a 6-3 game
One way or the other

 

[KingsKnight]

If our offense is still shot, then the only way we win is with perfect defense.

 

[Trolfoli]

Finally!!! A bottom dwelling team the Kings can run the score up on. Time to chug the gatorade and extinguish these Flames!!!

 

[mattgkg]

Looks like Kris Russell will be a healthy scratch for the game tonight. wonder if he gets moved before the start of the game. either way going to be nice to not have him blocking every friggn shot.

 

[Reclamation Project]

Option A - Kings play every shift perfect and get an early third period goal, taking a commanding 1-0 lead. In the dying seconds Sean Knobahan scores and the Kings lose 2-1 in OT. Carter 47:23 TOI. Doughty never leaves the ice.

Option B - Kings really don't feel like being hockey players tonight and lose 6-1. McNabb -7. Pearson -2:03 TOI.

Option C - Kings display a show of force and dominate 6-2, but it comes with devastating consequences as they score 4 goals in their next 10 games.

 

[KingsKnight]

Option A - Kings play every shift perfect and get an early third period goal, taking a commanding 1-0 lead. In the dying seconds Sean Knobahan scores and the Kings lose 2-1 in OT. Carter 47:23 TOI. Doughty never leaves the ice.

Option B - Kings really don't feel like being hockey players tonight and lose 6-1. McNabb -7. Pearson -2:03 TOI.

Option C - Kings display a show of force and dominate 6-2, but it comes with devastating consequences as they score 4 goals in their next 10 games.

Option D - Kings play a solid defensive game and finally get some scoring, and win 4-1. In the closing seconds Carter is injured when a wayward clearing attempt by McNabb breaks his foot. Carter is out for the rest of the season.

 

[theMajor]

If our offense is still shot, then the only way we win is with perfect defense.

the Legend's jerseys seem to be good luck, hopefully the Kings mop up the Flames like they did the Bruins

 

[YP44]

Sounds like Kopitar is back!

 

[Reclamation Project]

@DailyFaceoff 13m13 minutes ago
Daily Faceoff Retweeted Jon Rosen
Jonathan Quick starts and Anze Kopitar expected to play.

Said he wasn't feeling well in New York. Interesting.

Option D - Kings play a solid defensive game and finally get some scoring, and win 4-1. In the closing seconds Carter is injured when a wayward clearing attempt by McNabb breaks his foot. Carter is out for the rest of the season.

And now it's gonna happen.

 

[Little Psycho]

@DailyFaceoff 13m13 minutes ago
Daily Faceoff Retweeted Jon Rosen
Jonathan Quick starts and Anze Kopitar expected to play.

Said he wasn't feeling well in New York. Interesting.



And now it's gonna happen.

Someone asked Rosen if he was ill and he said no. Hidden injury?

 

[PJ Kings Hockey]

Option A - Kings play every shift perfect and get an early third period goal, taking a commanding 1-0 lead. In the dying seconds Sean Knobahan scores and the Kings lose 2-1 in OT. Carter 47:23 TOI. Doughty never leaves the ice.

Option B - Kings really don't feel like being hockey players tonight and lose 6-1. McNabb -7. Pearson -2:03 TOI.

Option C - Kings display a show of force and dominate 6-2, but it comes with devastating consequences as they score 4 goals in their next 10 games.

Those darn Flames. Haven't we been through Option A with them over and over in a nightmare loop?

McNabb with -7 in a 6-1 game?

 

[Reclamation Project]

Thinking something minor yet annoying like a stomach flu?

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

Updated.

Welp, we're totally, totally boned.

Flames are actually going to get 4 points from tonight game and we're going to lose two. Drop directly to third place after tonight.

 

[The Night King]

Those darn Flames. Haven't we been through Option A with them over and over in a nightmare loop?

McNabb with -7 in a 6-1 game?

 

[YAYSAY]

I'm feeling some classic Kings hockey tonight. They'll outshoot the Flames 30 to 15 and lose 3-1

 

[redcard]

I'm feeling some classic Kings hockey tonight. They'll outshoot the Flames 30 to 15 and lose 3-1

43 to 21 and lose 2-1