GDT: Game 75: Edmonton Oilers at Los Angeles Kings | Saturday, Mar 26 2016 - 7:00PM PT

[KingsKnight]

EDMONTON OILERS @ LOS ANGELES KINGS
Saturday, Mar 26 2016 - 7:00PM PT
Staples Center | Los Angeles, CA
TV: FS-W, CBC | Radio: AM 790 KABC

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EDMONTON|

LOS ANGELES

(30-40-7 67pts)|

(44-25-5 93pts)
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Hall - Draisaitl - Kassian |

Pearson - Kopitar - Brown

Maroon - McDavid - Eberle |

Lucic - Carter - Toffoli

Korpikoski - Letestu - Yakupov |

King - Dowd - Lewis

Hendricks - Cracknell - Pakarinen |

Clifford - Lecavalier - Andreoff
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Sekera - Fayne |

McNabb - Doughty

Reinhart - Oesterle |

Muzzin - Martinez

Nurse - Clendening |

Scuderi - Schenn
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Brossoit / Talbot |

Quick / Enroth​

INJURIES
Lecavalier has an "undisclosed ailment" and is a game time decision. Sounds minor.
Versteeg is day-to-day and skated after morning skate today.
Greene - LTIR - Has been skating before/after practices in El Segundo.
Gaborik - LTIR - Lombardi has indicated that he could start skating soon.
Neither Greene nor Gaborik are expected to return before the post season.
Nolan is out indefinitely after undergoing surgery for a herniated disc.

NEWS | NOTES

MATCHUP
This is the last meeting between the clubs this season:

10/25 LAK 3 at EDM 2
11/14 EDM 3 at LAK 4
12/29 LAK 5 at EDM 2
2/25 EDM 1 at LAK 2
3/26 EDM at LAK

|GP|Record|Pts|ROW|Home|Away|Last 10|Streak
LAK|74|44-25-5|93|42|23-11-2|21-14-3|6-3-1|Lost 3
EDM|77|30-40-7|67|26|18-18-2|12-22-5|5-5-0|Won 1

|G/GP|GA/GP|PP%|PK%|S/GP|SA/GP|FOW%
LAK|2.68|2.28|20.6|81.5|32.1|27.5|50.4
EDM|2.40|2.91|17.6|80.1|28.9|31.2|48.7

STANDINGS
WESTERN CONFERENCE

# | [pre] Central [/pre] | GP |

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

1|[pre] x Dallas[/pre]|

75|

44-22-9|

97|

42

2|[pre] x St. Louis[/pre]|

75|

44-22-9|

97|

39

3|[pre] Chicago[/pre]|

74|

42-25-7|

91|

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

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

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

74|

44-25-5|

93|

42

2|[pre] x Anaheim[/pre]|

73|

40-23-10|

90|

37

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

74|

41-27-6|

88|

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# | [pre] Wild Card [/pre] | GP |

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

1|[pre] Nashville[/pre]|

74|

38-23-13|

89|

34

2|[pre] Minnesota[/pre]|

75|

36-28-11|

83|

33

-|[pre] Colorado[/pre]|

74|

38-32-4|

80|

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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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[Trolfoli]

Oilers pretty much in last place and don't have anything to play for. (Coulture.. "cough")



How could this go wrong?

 

[ScoreZeGoals]

Please don't lose to this garbage team

 

[Nefarious]

Don't know what to say... Win?

 

[Butch 19]

This is quite the important game after 3 very soft outings against "supposedly weaker" teams.

yeah, getting in the playoffs is cool, but you still gotta beat lesser teams.

Kings 4-1 GKG!!

 

[KingsHockey24]

They're definitely a lot tougher with Maroon, Kassian, Cracknell, etc.

 

[mrkolice]

i guess the players don't care about the result anymore. but still, if they've decided to give themselves a bit of rest before the playoffs, it's still annoying to lose such games, or so many in a row. i suspect it will be one of those, "20 minutes oughta be enough" approach. my prediction: lak will lead 2-0, those oilers will come back, and with a late, probably even lucky goal lak will triumph, victorious, in all the glory. final 3-2 lak. but i'll have my vomiting bucket ready, just in case.

 

[boxall9]

Will Quick be playing tonight's?

 

[ninjastache]

In Dowd-y We Trust. 4-1 game with Dowd getting his first NHL Goal.

 

[KingsKnight]

I love Sutter:

On whether Brayden McNabb is more effective and noticeable:
You notice him because he played with Drew. [Reporter: A little bit more like standing up, and even like the last game at the red line-] He should knock guys on their ass once in the game. He shouldn’t take penalties that they score on, he shouldn’t turn pucks over below the goal line. I noticed all those things. Again, he wasn’t a playoff player last year, so can he be an important player this year? It’s kind of what these 10 games are for. (from LAKingsInsider)

 

[onlyalad]

Kings should win
I have no vdollars so I can't jinx them

Edit wait I have 50 vcash. Must resist the urge.

 

[Omni Owl]

I'll be in the PR section above you peasants tonight

 

[HansH]

The Oilers are a garbage team. The Kings will find a way to lose this game.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

Sorry guys, nothing good can come of this:

Predict, as someone else said, a bad first 5 minutes, a good next 15 minutes, followed by a collapse that finds the Oilers with a 3-2 comeback win and McDavid spinning across center ice.

This will be the first game I miss in full since the beginning of the year though, so there's that!

 

[Bandit]

6-1 Oilers.

 

[Pandaman11]

Confirmed: Edmonton is starting their backup

 

[The Night King]

Hope Suckera is enjoying his time in Edmonton.

 

[ScoreZeGoals]

Expecting a 4-2 loss

 

[Little Psycho]

Confirmed: Edmonton is starting their backup

Well now we are ****ed.

 

[The Night King]

It's always fun to read both GDTs and both fan bases saying guaranteed loss. At least someone from their board hasn't posted here assuring us of a win.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

Too late anyway, as conduit for the hockey gods, they have spoken as per above

 

[Little Psycho]

@helenenothelen
Darryl Sutter said earlier Vinny Lecavalier will be a game-time decision tonight. Doesn't want to risk recurrence of injury, long time out.

Whattt

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

god damnit.

Get healthy Vinny and Kris.

Guess clinching early is good but with people rested or out we're gonna see some uuuugly hockey down the stretch

Go go power dowd

 

[Trolfoli]

@helenenothelen
Darryl Sutter said earlier Vinny Lecavalier will be a game-time decision tonight. Doesn't want to risk recurrence of injury, long time out.

Whattt

Sounds like a strained muscle... that starts to feel better... then you're set back another couple of weeks because you rushed it a day or 2 early.

 

[Pandaman11]

It's always fun to read both GDTs and both fan bases saying guaranteed loss. At least someone from their board hasn't posted here assuring us of a win.

There are still a couple hours left...

Also, they don't know our team like we do.