GDT: Game 67: New Jersey Devils at Los Angeles Kings | Saturday, Mar 12 2016 - 7:30PM PT

[KingsKnight]

NEW JERSEY DEVILS @ LOS ANGELES KINGS
Saturday, Mar 12 2016 - 7:30PM PT
Staples Center | Los Angeles, CA
TV: FS-W | Radio: AM 790 KABC

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NEW JERSEY|

LOS ANGELES

(32-29-7 71pts)|

(40-21-4 84pts)
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Kennedy - Henrique - Smith-Pelly |

Lucic - Kopitar - Carter

Boucher - Zajac - Palmieri |

Pearson - Lecavalier - Toffoli

Blandisi - Kalinin - Sislo |

King - Lewis - Brown

Ruutu - Gionta - Tootoo |

Clifford - Shore - Versteeg
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Greene - Larsson |

Scuderi - Doughty

Moore - Schlemko |

Muzzin - Martinez

Merrill - Severson |

McNabb - Schenn
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Kinkaid / Danis |

Quick / Enroth​

INJURIES
Greene is on LTIR, but has been seen skating before/after practices in El Segundo.
Gaborik is on LTIR for a lower body injury.
Nolan is out indefinitely after undergoing surgery for a herniated disc.

NEWS | NOTES
Kings are 6-2-0 for 12 points through 8 games on this 9 game home/socal stand:
TUE 2/23 CGY 1 at LAK 2
THU 2/25 EDM 1 at LAK 2
SAT 2/27 BUF 0 at LAK 2
SUN 2/28 LAK 2 at ANA 4
THU 3/3 MTL 2 at LAK 3
SAT 3/5 ANA 3 at LAK 2
MON 3/7 VAN 1 at LAK 5
WED 3/9 WSH 3 at LAK 4 OT
SAT 3/12 NJD at LAK 7:30 PM

MATCHUP
This is the second and final regular season meeting between the clubs:

2/14 LAK 0 at NJD 1
3/12 NJD at LAK

|GP|Record|Pts|ROW|Home|Away|Last 10|Streak
LAK|66|40-22-4|84|38|21-11-1|19-11-3|7-2-1|Won 2
NJD|68|32-29-7|71|30|15-15-4|17-14-3|3-7-0|Won 1

|G/GP|GA/GP|PP%|PK%|S/GP|SA/GP|FOW%
LAK|2.68|2.27|22.3|80.8|32.5|27.7|50.1
NJD|2.19|2.41|20.9|82.2|24.5|28.5|47.0

STANDINGS

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

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

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

66|

40-22-4|

84|

38

2|[pre] Anaheim[/pre]|

67|

37-21-9|

83|

34

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

67|

37-24-6|

80|

34

4|[pre] Arizona[/pre]|

68|

29-32-7|

65|

28

5|[pre] Vancouver[/pre]|

66|

26-28-12|

64|

22

6|[pre] Calgary[/pre]|

68|

28-35-5|

61|

26

7|[pre] Edmonton[/pre]|

70|

27-36-7|

61|

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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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[Reclamation Project]

*obligatory Kings are boned comment*

 

[KingsKnight]

Out drinking. Some of the info might be out of date. I'll fix it later.

EDIT: Should all be up to date now.

 

[Little Psycho]

Huh thought we were playing the Blues. I always forget about NJ though.

 

[Trolfoli]

Just score a goal this time!

 

[Reclamation Project]

Just score a goal this time!

 

[KingsKnight]

Huh thought we were playing the Blues. I always forget about NJ though.

You had me thinking I got the whole GDT wrong for a second there! Phew!

 

[kingsholygrail]

 

[Nefarious]

Would like to get some separation between us and the Ducks and Sharks... In the "we get points and they don't" sense. Now is as good a time as any.

 

[Dueling Banjos]

Devils' games are boring usually. Slower, passionless, uninteresting hockey.

 

[TwzKing]

Devils' games are boring usually. Slower, passionless, uninteresting hockey.

They play the kings system? (Every other fan base)

 

[Bandit]

Devils have zero talent, so of course we're going to struggle.

 

[Sacha Baron Corbin]

It's impressive the Devils have stayed in the playoff hunt with that roster.

 

[Ollie Weeks]

Meh, 7 points out of a wildcard. Bout right where you'd expect.

 

[Sacha Baron Corbin]

Oh maybe they have fallen off more that I realized I thought I heard Nick say they were only a point out of the wildcard back on Wednesday. Guess I heard wrong lol

 

[TonySCV]

I'll have my pillow ready.

 

[KopitarFAN]

It really doesn't, I still don't care about winning the division. That said, I don't buy the "trap game" stuff that is bound to come up between now and puck drop, they didn't finish the game on wednesday and expect a pretty motivated group to play a 60 minute game.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

We're 5th in the league overall....but if we win our games in hand, we're in 2nd only to Washington (who no one is touching). Perspective.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

Just how boned are we, you may ask? Well,

It's not looking good.

 

[TonySCV]

It's a tarp!

 

[KingsKnight]

Would be nice to score at least 1 goal on them this season.

 

[Highway29]

Just curious how McBain has played for you this season? Is he now in the AHL?

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

Just curious how McBain has played for you this season? Is he now in the AHL?

He started very well but his play was up and down after that. A couple of soft turnovers that led to goals against seemed to make Sutter lose all faith in him.

 

[Highway29]

He started very well but his play was up and down after that. A couple of soft turnovers that led to goals against seemed to make Sutter lose all faith in him.

Well that sounds quite like Jamie I used to watch playing

 

[SlimCharles]

So, Devante Smith-Pelly is on the first line? Alrrrighty then.