GDT: Los Angeles Kings 4, Minnesota Wild 0 (Final)

[Ron*]

Wednesday • November 26, 2014 • 5:00 p.m. (PST)

LOS ANGELES KINGS
11-6-5 • 27 PTS
4th Pacific Division • 6th Western Conference • 11th League

LINE COMBINATIONS
12 Marian Gaborik • 11 Anze Kopitar A • 22 Trevor Lewis
74 Dwight King • 77 Jeff Carter • 73 Tyler Toffoli
70 Tanner Pearson • 28 Jarrett Stoll • 14 Justin Williams
13 Kyle Clifford • 10 Mike Richards • 23 Dustin Brown C

DEFENSE PAIRS
6 Jake Muzzin • 8 Drew Doughty
3 Braydon McNabb • 2 Matt Greene A
44 Robyn Regehr • 5 Jamie McBain

GOALIES
32 Jonathan Quick
31 Martin Jones

INJURIES
27 Alec Martinez

HEALTHY SCRATCHES
15 Andy Andreoff
71 Jordan Nolan

MINNESOTA WILD
12-8-0 • 24 PTS
5th Central Division • 9th Western Conference • 15th League

LINE COMBINATIONS
11 Zach Parise A • 64 Mikael Granlund • 29 Jason Pominville
22 Nino Niederreiter • 9 Mikko Koivu C • 14 Justin Fontaine
16 Jason Zucker • 3 Charlie Coyle • 26 Thomas Vanek
18 Ryan Carter • 56 Erik Haula • 21 Kyle Brodziak

DEFENSE PAIRS
20 Ryan Suter A • 46 Jared Spurgeon
6 Marco Scandella • 39 Nate Prosser
2 Keith Ballard • 55 Matthew Dumba

GOALIES
35 Darcy Kuemper
32 Niklas Backstrom

INJURIES
37 Josh Harding
24 Matt Cooke
25 Jonas Brodin

HEALTHY SCRATCHES
4 Stu Bickel

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CREDITS
Content: Ron
Graphics: KingsKnight
Confidence: Matt Greene
Goaltending: Jonathan Quick
Attitude: Steve Harvey

GDT updated on November 25, 2014, at 10:00 p.m. (PST)

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[Ron*]

 

[Trolfoli]

****... back to back on the road trip... I haven't had enough time to get emotionally ready for the next kick to the #@^&.

 

[kingsholygrail]

Maybe a road win? What's the franchise record for worst road.start?

 

[Lelouch]

Maybe a road win? What's the franchise record for worst road.start?

Well the record for fewest road wins is 2 in 1969-1970

 

[Reclamation Project]

Well the record for fewest road wins is 2 in 1969-1970

 

[kingsholygrail]

Well the record for fewest road wins is 2 in 1969-1970

We got this.

 

[CTKingsFan]

The Kings will end the 2014-15 NHL season with both the best home record and the worst road record. They will then go undefeated on the road and winless at home in route to a Stanley Cup victory.

 

[damacles1156]

One single road win this trip...Please.

 

[kingsholygrail]

The Kings will end the 2014-15 NHL season with both the best home record and the worst road record. They will then go undefeated on the road and winless at home in route to a Stanley Cup victory.

This must be the challenge DL talked about the team needing to create to motivate themselves to go deep again.

 

[KingsFan7824]

No expectations.

 

[KingsFan7824]

If you add the current season scoring averages at ES of the lines from last night:

Gaborik/Richards/Carter - 1.409 ppg
Pearson/Kopitar/Toffoli - 1.368 ppg
Clifford/Lewis/King - .725 ppg
Brown/Stoll/Williams - .419 ppg

Brown and Stoll have the two lowest ES ppg averages on the team. Williams sits 8th.

 

[YP44]

If you add the current season scoring averages at ES of the lines from last night:

Gaborik/Richards/Carter - 1.409 ppg
Pearson/Kopitar/Toffoli - 1.368 ppg
Clifford/Lewis/King - .725 ppg
Brown/Stoll/Williams - .419 ppg

Brown and Stoll have the two lowest ES ppg averages on the team. Williams sits 8th.

have we seen that top six for a length of time?
I would like to.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

Didn't get to watch last night's game due to travel but that first line looked dangerous in the highlights package. I assume Kopitar is still playing dead?

Best home record and worst road record in the league. That's so Kings. I have a good feeling about tonight though. Gonna get this one on the road just in time to get off the road imo The records have to start equalizing out sometime, why not now?

Kings 3-1.

 

[bob77]

Should be interesting game tonight. If you think Kings D have trouble breaking the puck out, well, wait until tonight. In the first game in LA vs. Wild, the Wild were all over them. Quick was the difference. MN is going to want this one bad. Also, this is back to back for Kings.

In reference to last nights game, still no Kings forecheck of any consequence. All three goals were scored on plays that materialized while coming up the ice, and things just happened to work out. First, McBain going to the net from the other side of the rink. Carter flipping it high to Gaborik (nice pass by Carter), and Doughty rushing coast to coast. While they all count, the Kings need to start getting goals from a sustained puck possession attack on the forecheck. Seems to be missing from their game.

 

[Ollie Weeks]

Didn't get to watch last night's game due to travel but that first line looked dangerous in the highlights package. I assume Kopitar is still playing dead?

There were long stretches where every line looked good. Except Kopitar's.

 

[DocWest]

Kopitar has been in force ghost mode for a while now. It's annoying to watch.

 

[KINGS17]

Two points would be nice. The Kings might want to get back to some good old fashioned grinding in the other team's zone. The Brown-Stoll-Williams line is the only line that seems to be able to do it lately.

I noticed that Sutter put Kopitar with Pearson and Toffoli for a bit to try and get him going. Anze is an enigma at times.

 

[deeshamrock]

From Waking up with the Kings on the Insider today


The power play, which struck in Dallas, is now only 2-for-29 on the road this season. That’s not really important; home-road special teams splits are mostly arbitrary, though there are some crooked numbers as the Kings rank sixth at home in both power play and penalty killing yet rank 27th with the man advantage and tied for 23rd when killing penalties away from Staples Center.

That's really bizarre to be that good on SPecial teams at home and lousy on the road.

And Vanek has only 1 goal...didn't expect that.

 

[taz346]

Have no idea what to expect for this one. Can only hope for a win tonight. Kings self confidence must be at a pretty low level about now. They need to start converting on those pp's.

 

[damacles1156]

From Waking up with the Kings on the Insider today


The power play, which struck in Dallas, is now only 2-for-29 on the road this season. That’s not really important; home-road special teams splits are mostly arbitrary, though there are some crooked numbers as the Kings rank sixth at home in both power play and penalty killing yet rank 27th with the man advantage and tied for 23rd when killing penalties away from Staples Center.

That's really bizarre to be that good on SPecial teams at home and lousy on the road.

And Vanek has only 1 goal...didn't expect that.

Dude's nick name is Vanish...What would you expect.

 

[HansH]

The thing that has me cringing about this game is not just the Kings' 1-4-4 road record...

It's the Wild's home record. 7-1. Better in percentage than even the Kings' 10-2-1 home record. Yeah... both of those together... I'm skeered.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

The thing that has me cringing about this game is not just the Kings' 1-4-4 road record...

It's the Wild's home record. 7-1. Better in percentage than even the Kings' 10-2-1 home record. Yeah... both of those together... I'm skeered.

That just means something's gotta give

I liked sutters quotes this morning about the road struggles though. Those 4OT/SO losses hurt but it could be 5-4. It's obviously not, and we aren't playing well away, but it's not far off. And the special teams thing is an anomaly with a smallish sample size.

We will be ok.

 

[MynameisKing]

Please, all the Kings should take a dose of some anti-Kopitaritis tonight before the game. The season for this infliction is starting a few months early! No telling how long this one is gonna last.

(Kopi-tar-ritis) Named after professional hockey player Anze (Ahn-Zhay) Kopitar (Kopi-tar). An infliction which infects a hockey player to play sub-par to non-existent for long periods of time. Infliction is seasonal, normally lasting from the months of January until mid February.

 

[KingsHockey24]

Kopitar will get the hatty tonight, I can feel it in me bones!