GDT: GM#34 LA Kings vs Pittsburgh Penguins @4:00pm 12/15/18

[LAKings88]

The tank rolls ever onward.

 

[Scottkmlps]

So wait a minute. Thompson gets ice time in OT, but a player like Luff, who can actually score, sits on the bench? Yeah, WD is absolutely ****ing clueless.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Players like Thompson, Leipsic, and Fantenberg should never see the ice in OT

Unless the strategy is to lose on purpose. Desjardins is definitely the tank commander.

 

[KingsFan7824]

Break that stick Doughty, you good at that.

What is it, 3 times he's done that this year?

 

[KingsFan7824]

So wait a minute. Thompson gets ice time in OT, but a player like Luff, who can actually score, sits on the bench? Yeah, WD is absolutely ****ing clueless.

You really do have to do the Moneyball thing if you want that to change.

 

[Legionnaire]

Another game, another disappointment.

 

[KingsHockey24]

I watched the first period and turned off the game.

Surprised they made it to OT.

Another L.

 

[Sol]

Lol nate Thompson on 3 on 3. Genius.

 

[Reclamation Project]

The biggest disappointment is they got an extra point.

 

[johnjm22]

I liked this game.

We lost so the tank rolls on, the young guys got playing time, and overall it was a reasonably entertaining affair.

 

[kovacro]

Lol nate Thompson on 3 on 3. Genius.

 

[KingsFan7824]

No PP time for Thompson though.

 

[Reclamation Project]

Tanner Pearson so far with Pittsburgh (playing alongside Crosby and Malkin) - 3 goals in 15 games. Lousy.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Tanner Pearson so far with Pittsburgh (playing alongside Crosby and Malkin) - 3 goals in 15 games. Lousy.

He also went 7 games without scoring, until he got some help from his old buddies, Drew and Jonathan.

 

[GoldenBearHockey]

Anyone remember that last time anyone on the Kings scored a goal with as much authority as Kessel on the winner there?

Yea....about a period before, Iafallo on the one timer....

 

[BigKing]

What's the point of Fantenberg? Seriously.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

What's the point of Fantenberg? Seriously.

To help secure a high draft pick.

 

[BigKing]

To help secure a high draft pick.

So give me MacDermid. An actual draft pick that has been developed by the Kings. A guy that supposedly does everything right. A guy to be emulated in the fitness department.

Nope. Let's do the khl mercenary that is not even vanilla because vanilla actually taste good. He's shit on a stick. A fart in the wind of Kings history. Total highlights? Zero.

Not a draft pick, but developed by LA

 

[AbsentMojo]

Toronto is 0fer 50 years... Kings have 2 recent cups. So, I dont mind this year at all since there is no way they would gut the team like they need to without smelling like a corpse. It does screw up the way you think.. lots of times I think man WD is an idiot. Then it occurs to me the guy is a genius. For example, who would think of marketing Thompson as if he's a top 6 fwd - so he can put in him positions to help them lose. That is genius.

 

[Peter James Bond II]

As soon as WD put out Thompson AND Leipsic in OT, 4 things should have happened, within 10 seconds: 1. Blake make a call to the bench and have WD removed immediately. Use security, if necessary. 2. St. Louis B-Lose exec or GM call the league office and file a grievance that LA was throwing a game. 3. Chicago Tank Hawks exec or GM call the league office and file a grievance that LA was throwing a game. 4. Vegas bookmakers void all bets that had the Pens winning.

 

[kingsfan28]

So wait a minute. Thompson gets ice time in OT, but a player like Luff, who can actually score, sits on the bench? Yeah, WD is absolutely ****ing clueless.

This OT loss is all on WD! Carter and Toffoli saw 1 shift because our f-ing coach rolls 4 lines!!!! Guess what line caused the turnover and later the penalty? Yep, the 4th!

 

[kingsfan28]

What's the point of Fantenberg? Seriously.

I couldn't have been the only one who yell "why is
Fantenberg out there" just before he ices the puck ...WHEN IT"S 3 vs 3!!!!! How do you ice it when nobody's around?

 

[Peter James Bond II]

2 best players of the year.....were not supposed to make the Kings this year....and a college free agent and a CHL free agent. You can't make this stuff up.

Petersen and Luff.

 

[kingsfan28]

Players like Thompson, Leipsic, and Fantenberg should never see the ice in OT

Remember when Kopitar,Carter and Doughty saw at least 3 shifts in OT and they won just about every time? Not with this coach!

 

[Peter James Bond II]

Scherbak gets 8:33 of ice...least for the forwards...and had 3 shots, 3 hits and a great assist, on the TT goal. He just needed to make his cut after one more forward stride. Nice cut to the center of the ice and perfect pass to TT, through 2 Pen sticks....He also had a perfect, quick pass to Drew on that one timer bomb ticketed for the right corner and a good save made.

So messed up. He had a good game.