Pre-Game Talk: PDSF: (2) San Jose Sharks vs. (3) Los Angeles Kings (Schedule in OP)

[goosh]

Upon further review (thanks JFTC), Thornton indeed had a field day against Mike Richards.

At home, try and get Stoll's line matched up against Jumbo Joe, with Richards going against the Pavelski line.

 

[YP44]

Rat face always score against The Kings.

They have a lot of offensive guns. Will be hard for our defense to shut down.

 

[Little Psycho]

I know SJ has a great line up but y'all need to stop shaking in your boots. We know what this team is capable of and they can beat any team (except chicago) if they want to.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

http://lakingsinsider.com/2014/04/14/kings-sharks-possession-possession-possession/

"As for possessing the puck, the Kings attempted 54.3% of the 608 total attempts at net in the five-game season series between the two teams. In four of the five games this season – Los Angeles was 3-1-1 in the regular season series and outscored San Jose 12-8, shootout goals excluded – the Kings out-attempted the Sharks."

Interesting note really. I think the underrated part of this series and what just about killed us last year (suck it, Torres) was losing so many faceoffs. Will be interesting to see what happens there this time.

 

[KingKopitar11*]

That's some insane depth they got. It's stuff like that makes me want Clifford and Lewis gone for upgrades.

But we should be good.

 

[BigKing]

Hate the lines.

Love Dwight King's season, but I've maintained that this team is going nowhere with him as a Top 6 option. He is perfectly suited for LW3, the same spot he flourished in during the 2012 run.

Seems like we had balance with a great 1st line, a dangerous 2nd line with 70-77-73, a pretty awesome 3rd line in 74-28-23 and then a very competent 4th line with Richards centering it.

Feels like we are back to a great first line, a 2nd line that will get torched, a 3rd line with Toffoli playing out of position and a 4th line that will never score a goal.

Awesome.

For the Richards apologists, let's see him earn that position from his play rather than last year's playoffs. If he is the Playoff Superhero some are expecting, he will show that from the 4th line and PP and can then be bumped up the roster.

Never happy when I look at the rushes and my initial thought is immediately "gross".

 

[Battle Hymns]

Yuck. I want...

12-11-14
70-77-73
71-28-23
74-10-22

6-8
44-26
33-27
2

32
31

completely agree except id have king on the 2nd line, pearson, 3rd line and nolan 4th line.

 

[Little Psycho]

Kings recalled Vey

@reallisa: Breaking news. Per Kings: Recalled forward Linden Vey from Manchester.

 

[TheSentinel]

Kings recalled Vey

Activating the Kid line?

 

[Reclamation Project]

The ppg argument is no fair. The Sharks are ranked number 6 in the entire league. The Kings are 20 spots down.

 

[kingsholygrail]

Ugh these songs they're using for the series montages on NHL network are so lame.

 

[KingKopitar11*]

Why would they recall vey?

 

[kingsholygrail]

Why would they recall vey?

Why not? Isn't it an expanded roster for the playoffs?

 

[Reclamation Project]

Why would they recall vey?

All hands on deck.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

Plucking him from a Manchvegas playoff run seems wacky though.

 

[goosh]

Plucking him from a Manchvegas playoff run seems wacky though.

For extra C depth, probably good to have at least one of Vey/Fraser on the team.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

For extra C depth, probably good to have at least one of Vey/Fraser on the team.

Paging KingKopitar!

 

[Buddy The Elf]

I'm actually a fan of that 3rd line. That is a perfect LA Kings playoff hockey line. Cycle, forecheck, hit and if the Kings want to win, that line needs to score a few goals.

I'm a Pejorative Slur.. I thought the third line was King/Stoll/Brown... what is Sutter doing? This can all change in a moments notice so I'm not too concerned for the time being. I'll wait until they lose a game.

EDIT: I'm totally conversing with myself online. How narcissistic is that?

 

[KingKopitar11*]

Please don't talk about Fraser, I just ate.

 

[Reclamation Project]

Paging KingKopitar!

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

Richards really is Thornton's *****, and Kopitar is all-world:

http://www.jewelsfromthecrown.com/2014/4/14/5614274/playoff-preview-kings-sharks-underlying-numbers

 

[Reclamation Project]

Plus fifty-****ing-two against Vlasic.

 

[Little Psycho]

Plus fifty-****ing-two against Vlasic.

Holy ****!

Lol praying for Richards.

 

[Herby]

The guy is clearly just a Richards hater, duh! These overrated advanced stats are just like 5 goals and 20 points since Thanksgiving, the -14 over the past two years when everyone else on the team was a plus. These are all useless stats that haters talk about to bring him down.

WoW!! Look at how awful those numbers are. Yet here we are promoting this guy to 2nd line strictly based off of past accomplishments.

The sad thing is, atleast a guy like Ovechkin is a threat to score to make up the defensive stats. To steal one from Chick Hearn, "Richards couldn't shoot a puck into the ocean right now" to go along with his ridiculously awful defensive and possession numbers.

But hey, only 6 more years, 492 more games and 34 million in cap space. Sorry RP and DMac, I respect your guys opinions, but if he continues to suck in the playoffs he is gone, either by trade or buy out. I don't care how much Dean liked him in his prime, no way can anyone justify paying someone so much to provide so little.

 

[Johnny Utah]

Williams-Kopitar-Gaborik
Carter-Richards-King
Brown-Stoll-Toffoli
Nolan-Lewis-Clifford/Pearson

Why wouldn't the Kings switch Brown and TT? Both are playing out of position. Weird.