GDT: GM #15 LA Kings vs Anaheim Ducks @7:00pm Freeway Faceoff Edition!

[kingsboy11]

Los Angeles Kings (10-2-2, 22 pts, 1st in Pacific) @ Anaheim Ducks ( 6-6-2, 14 pts, 6th in Pacific)
Honda Center| Anaheim, CA
TIME: 7:00 PM PT | TV: NBCSN | RADIO: 790 KABC

QUICK STATS
Previous meeting: ANA 4-3 (OT) 2016-17

PP/PK rankings
ANA: 30th in PP, 5th in PK
LAK: 14th in PP, 1st in PK

FACEOFFS:
ANA: 8th
LAK: 18th

LEADING SCORERS:
ANA: Rickard Rakell, 5 goals, 4 assists, 9 points
LAK: Anze Kopitar, 7 goals, 10 assists, 17 points

LINES*

Alex Iafallo	Anze Kopitar	Dustin Brown
Tanner Pearson	Adrian Kempe	Tyler Toffoli
Michael Cammalleri	Nick Shore	Trevor Lewis
Mike Amadio	Brooks Laich	Andy Andreoff

[TBODY] [/TBODY]

Derek Forbort	Drew Doughty
Jake Muzzin	Alec Martinez
Kurtis MacDermid	Oscar Fantenberg

[TBODY] [/TBODY]

Jonathan Quick
Darcy Kuem.....oh wait.....Jeff Zatkoff

Extras: Christian Folin, Nic Dowd
Injuries: Marian Gaborik, Jeff Carter, Kyle Clifford


Ondrej Kase-Rickard Rakell-Corey Perry
Andrew Cogliano-Derek Grant-Jakob Silfverberg
Nick Ritchie-Antoine Vermette-Chris Wagner
Logan Shaw-Dennis Rasmussen-Jared Boll

Hampus Lindholm-Josh Manson
Francois Beauchemin-Brandon Montour
Sami Vatanen-Kevin Bieksa

John Gibson
Ryan Miller

Extras: Jaycob Megna, Korbinian Holzer, Kalle Kossila
Injuries: Ryan Kesler, Ryan Getzlaf, Cam Fowler, Patrick Eaves

*Lines subject to change

NEWS/NOTES

• The Anaheim Ducks lost to the San Jose Sharks 2-1 in a shootout Saturday night. Corey Perry scored the lone goal for the Ducks that night. Ryan Miller was between the pipes. Sharks gave up the early goal, but controlled the Ducks throughout the night and eventually broke down the ducks defense and came from behind to defeat the Ducks in a shootout.
  
• Injuries are the main headline when talking about the Anaheim Ducks. After being eliminated by the Nashville Predators in 6 games in the Western Conference Finals, the Ducks learned that Ryan Kesler, Hampus Lindholm and Sami Vatanen would all be out injured well into the season. And to add insult to injury(pun intended) Ryan Getzlaf and Cam Fowler have both picked up injuries recently.
  
• Rickard Rakell has had to shoulder the weight of losing Ryan Getzlaf and Ryan Kesler to injury and currently leads the ducks in points 5 goals and 4 asssists in 14 games so far.
  
• The LA Kings lost to the Nashville Predators in overtime 4-3. The Kings did however make a massive 3rd period comeback with goals coming from Alex Iafallo (YAY), Christian Folin and Alec Martinez.
  
• The Kings went 2-2-1 against the Ducks last season, but the Kings will look to take advantage of the Ducks injuries to centers Ryan Kesler and Ryan Getzlaf.

Tweets of the Game!










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[Kingspiracy]

Lets roast some foul fowl.

 

[LAK74]

Thanks for the great GDT's! Just a trivial thing, but let's put the Ducks down as "6th in Pacific Division," where they belong!

 

[tsanuri]

Thanks for the great GDT's! Just a trivial thing, but let's put the Ducks down as "6th in Pacific Division," where they belong!

I got it.

 

[kingsboy11]

 

[Little Psycho]

Should be able to win this one.

 

[ScoreZeGoals]

Need to take advantage of those Duck injuries and put another notch in the win column

 

[The Tikkanen]

With the Ducks off to a slow start and the most timid fan base in all of the major sports I expect the building to look and sound like a Kings home game.

 

[Ollie Weeks]

Wow the Ducks are banged up.

 

[kings11]

Kill, Kill, Kill...

 

[kingsboy11]

One quick minor change. This game is actually on NBCSN tonight, not Fox Sports West

 

[KingsHockey24]

NBCSN and Hayward?

 

[KingCanadain1976]

go kings go

 

[Little Psycho]

Kingsboy11 you forgot this

 

[kingsboy11]

Kingsboy11 you forgot this

One of my favorite gifs of him, but that one is reserved for special Kempe games

 

[Little Psycho]

Nice little article about DD's tendency to lose his shit

There might not be a more passionate player in the NHL than Drew Doughty. There are few players who wear it on their sleeve more than the Kings defenseman.
But he’s also one of the NHL’s most well-known talkers — to the officials, and he can’t help it.
“I know what that fine line is,” Doughty said. “I just don’t do it. Selfish on my part, really.”
That sometimes spills over like it did last Saturday when Doughty was given an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty for complaining to the referees. Doughty was upset over several plays, including an apparent trip that wasn’t called.
“I feel really bad when I do it every time,” Doughty said. “I go home and I think about it and I feel terrible. But I just get so competitive. I kind of lose it sometimes. I can’t control it. I’m not going to argue with the ref if I think he made the right call. But if he doesn’t make the right call, and I question him and he kind of gives me some kind of answer back, then I’m going to get mad too.”

http://www.latimes.com/sports/ducks/la-sp-kings-report-20171106-story.html

 

[tny760]

Wow the Ducks are banged up.

yeah that's a pretty brutal lineup

hopefully we can help bury them into a big enough hole that they won't be able to crawl back in once their big guns get healthy

 

[KingCanadain1976]

Jon Rosen Retweeted
Curtis Zupke‏ @curtiszupke 18m18 minutes ago
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Marian Gaborik is also skating with the team this morning.

 

[KingCanadain1976]

Jon Rosen Retweeted
Curtis Zupke‏ @curtiszupke 41m41 minutes ago
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Oscar Fantenberg took rushes with Kurtis MacDermid; Folin/Dowd look like spares. Lines/pairs otherwise the same.

 

[kingsholygrail]

I had a dream Gaborik was back and Carter was way ahead of schedule.
It's the Ducks, so no mercy. I wanna see them get destroyed in their weakened state.

 

[KingCanadain1976]

Curtis Zupke‏ @curtiszupke 10m10 minutes ago
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Still no timetable for Gaborik to practice fully/take contact, JS said.

 

[Little Psycho]

Whoa Getzlaf had surgery and might be out for two months. Really not looking good for them.

 

[Fishhead]

Whoa Getzlaf had surgery and might be out for two months. Really not looking good for them.

It's early, and the division doesn't appear to be very competitive, but if this keeps up it's almost going to be a throw-away season for them. They are hanging in there, but who knows how long that will last. I don't feel sorry for them, but I think Kings fans can relate to the effects of injuries.

It's really bad timing for them as their key guys aren't getting any younger.

 

[tny760]

oh wow i thought they were calling getz day-to-day, they must have discovered the fracture late or something, that's bad news for them. kesler is out a couple months too so they're gonna be short for a while

gotta take advantage while we have the chance

 

[Little Psycho]

And he doesn't wear a visor too, could have been prevented. Dumb move by him.