LAK 6 : ARI 2 - Boom goes the crynomite

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Nice to see Brown get some luck for once. Good game, Muzzin/Doughty on pace for nice season totals.
 
If Kempe is ready, and Mersch is also knocking at the door, then the guys who could be moved range from Pearson, King, Clifford, Nolan or Andreoff.

Adding Byfuglien would make the Kings a huge threat, imagine having his shot from the point on the PP, and his hitting, and he can also log big minutes, which this team needs on the blueline.

I liked when he played in front of the net in Chicago. Try moving him from in front of the net. :amazed:


Anyway, good win by the Kings tonight. It was a nice way to come back after the break.
 
I left for my game when it looked like another crap night in the desert...finished my first game and WOW

Have to play one more before I go home and watch the replay but stoked
 
I'd like to say **** Sutter. Seriously dude you got like a 3 goal lead, Brown has 2 goals and he's not on the power play? Put him in front of the net and have everyone aim at him. If he gets a hat trick GM's around the league will be beating down the door to trade for him!!!

:laugh:

Finally good to kick the hell out of this crap team. Good on Schenn for hitting that tool hard enough to make the refs feel bad for him and call a penalty!!!

Oh yeah... hope McBain doesn't get benched for being rusty. Ehrhoff needs a break.

Edit: Anyone else notice that Brown threw a couple of big hits and got in his game? Wonder if there's a link to Brown trying to light guys up and getting his feet moving/causing havoc leading to scoring....
 
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If Kempe is ready, and Mersch is also knocking at the door, then the guys who could be moved range from Pearson, King, Clifford, Nolan or Andreoff.

Adding Byfuglien would make the Kings a huge threat, imagine having his shot from the point on the PP, and his hitting, and he can also log big minutes, which this team needs on the blueline.

we are a huge threat already.
 
If Kempe is ready, and Mersch is also knocking at the door, then the guys who could be moved range from Pearson, King, Clifford, Nolan or Andreoff.

Adding Byfuglien would make the Kings a huge threat
, imagine having his shot from the point on the PP, and his hitting, and he can also log big minutes, which this team needs on the blueline.

And a collective " oh f-me" from the rest of the league. The players listed seem about right, but I'd have to think Kempe is on the no trade list especially for a rental.
 
we are a huge threat already.

I'm not sold on the blueline as it is. This team can't risk having McBain or Ehrhoff in a playoff lineup nor should McNabb or Schenn be rotating in the top 4. Adding Byfuglien would put everyone else beyond the top 3 in the proper defense slot.
 
Just watched the rest of the game. Good lord, guess they just had to shake off some rust. And I didn't think all those stats I cited in the pregame would equalize TONIGHT :laugh:

Thank god we don't play these softies again anytime soon. Easy to see why they have the most PP opportunities in the league. They die on every play and miraculously come back. Hard to take real injuries seriously when every two minute minor results in a corpse. Can't believe the refs still eat it up. Glad we pushed them around too. Nice to be the big, bad Kings again. now bring on Buff so we can just bully everyone completely!

And my goodness, that Vinny tip...yeesh.

Big game on Thursday now, looking very much forward to that!
 
Brown has 5 goals in 5 games against the Coyotes, with 25 shots on net. In the other 45 games this season, he has 2 goals, 1 on the PP, 1 on a PS, and 113 shots on net, for a 1.8 shooting%.

He might get 1 more goal this year if that keeps up.
 
If shore wants to stay out of the press box he needs to do better in the faceoff circle. If not I could see lewis taking his centre spot and Clifford coming in for Shore.
 
interesting Bernstein said the same thing :nod::popcorn:

Bernstein (and the entire fourth period crew) aren't exactly the most knowledgeable people when it comes to hockey writers. Bernstein hated the Carter trade, he didn't like the Gaborik trade, I hope he hates the next trade too. I had a long argument with him over Twitter how the Gaborik trade couldn't be "bad" like he was saying because the Kings didn't give up ANYTHING but he insisted it was bad and wouldn't help the Kings......
 
If shore wants to stay out of the press box he needs to do better in the faceoff circle. If not I could see lewis taking his centre spot and Clifford coming in for Shore.

A few games ago he was at 53% which is the 2nd highest on the Kings. (not counting Vinny's short span) Idk how much he has dropped since but if he wants to stay out of the press box, stop taking idiotic penalties (mostly offensive zone too) and stay the out the effin box.
 
Bernstein (and the entire fourth period crew) aren't exactly the most knowledgeable people when it comes to hockey writers. Bernstein hated the Carter trade, he didn't like the Gaborik trade, I hope he hates the next trade too. I had a long argument with him over Twitter how the Gaborik trade couldn't be "bad" like he was saying because the Kings didn't give up ANYTHING but he insisted it was lol bad and wouldn't help the Kings......

lol and where did i say they did ? i am concerned on my own thinking because they agreed with me.:sarcasm: I have had the same type of talks with mr Bernstein however as much as i disagree with him at least hes willing to go on record with his opinion about the kings. Most insiders ignore the kings for the most part. So for that i have some respect for him
 
lol and where did i say they did ? i am concerned on my own thinking because they agreed with me.:sarcasm: I have had the same type of talks with mr Bernstein however as much as i disagree with him at least hes willing to go on record with his opinion about the kings. Most insiders ignore the kings for the most part. So for that i have some respect for him

He's just mostly wrong, all of TFP is a total **** show.
 
Someone from ESPN brought it up today about how he would really help, so really he's just running with that story. Giving up Pearson for a rental would be a bad thing.
I'm in agreement there. Pearson is still so young and so good, a drop-off in production in a season after a major injury seems like a bad reason to trade away someone who could easily be another home-grown superstar.

If he looked like he did last season before the injury, no one would be suggesting this... and I'm not convinced he won't get back to that level of production sooner rather than later. He is still doing good work, after all. Along the boards, hustling on special teams, getting to the net, getting good chances... just none of them go in lately. A little snakebite is no reason to trade away a great young player.
 
I'm in agreement there. Pearson is still so young and so good, a drop-off in production in a season after a major injury seems like a bad reason to trade away someone who could easily be another home-grown superstar.

If he looked like he did last season before the injury, no one would be suggesting this... and I'm not convinced he won't get back to that level of production sooner rather than later. He is still doing good work, after all. Along the boards, hustling on special teams, getting to the net, getting good chances... just none of them go in lately. A little snakebite is no reason to trade away a great young player.

I would move King before Pearson as I am sure most would.
 
I'm in agreement there. Pearson is still so young and so good, a drop-off in production in a season after a major injury seems like a bad reason to trade away someone who could easily be another home-grown superstar.

If he looked like he did last season before the injury, no one would be suggesting this... and I'm not convinced he won't get back to that level of production sooner rather than later. He is still doing good work, after all. Along the boards, hustling on special teams, getting to the net, getting good chances... just none of them go in lately. A little snakebite is no reason to trade away a great young player.

I would rather trade pearson who is got 4th line 5 on 5 play last night ( to me thats very telling) He isnt as trusted as king lucic. He has a good trade value being young on a elc and proven to score on a non scoring team. No one else has as much value that we can afford to trade. With Lucic King clifford and mersch ready We also have brown gaborik and lewis capable of playing lw . Pearson is a luxury we can use to get a top 4 defenseman.
 
moving a LW complicates things more because remember Lucic is a rental too. I haven't heard that Kempe is necessarily NHL ready yet, so worst case scenario if you deal Pearson and Lucic walks you could be looking at LW depth of King/Clifford/Mersch/??? - possibly Brown? that's a lot less top-six talent on that side than I think Dean would like going into next season. Then again if it returns Buff and a cup I don't think I'd really care.
 

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