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PDSF Gm#4, KINGS v SHARKS ... force a game #5, win 6-3 !!!

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Bandit said:
Yeah, it's crazy to think that if Gaborik had buried that OT chance in game 3 we could be tied 2-2 even with having been utter garbage in games 1 & 2. Just goes to show how slim the margin for error is.



He'd never do it becasue Brown, but about 20 seconds before he scored he laid a clean hit on Vlasic and Vlasic two handed him. I was secretly hoping Brown would put him through the boards right after he scored, but no such luck. Also wanted Regher to tune up Burns at the end there, was probably Robin's only chance to do something meaningful for the Kings.
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I think our guys are re-realizing the value of their checks--getting under the opponents skin as well as blasting them out of position. That EN goal was possible because of physicaly play, not passive lane-clogging.

Agreed, though; I would kill to be 2-2 right now, but love that we're still alive with hope--and these teams are typically closely matched enough that all it will take is a bounce, so i'm not shocked.
 
HITTING is what the Kings live and die by. I think they forget sometimes how hated they are so they forget the effectiveness of a nice big hit. It's huge to getting a team to rethink their game or throwing them off. How do you think they made Quick into a sieve? They consistently ran him.

**** the refs for letting that happen so much though.
 
Richards had a good game, he deserved the ice time.

It's just so much of a better situation when they have him on 4th line and he is matched up against lesser competition, it becomes a strength for the Kings. It worked earlier in the year and then Sutter for some odd reason moved him back up with Carter, which hasn't worked in a long time.

Richards doesn't have it most games, so just keep him on 4th line and then if he does have a strong game you can play him in more situations. My biggest issue was how much Sutter tried to force him into the 2nd line role, Mike Richards is no longer a 2nd line player in the NHL, but atleast through this season he can be a valuable member of the Kings bottom six.
 
kingsholygrail said:
Awesome. Gonna get to drunk post from my cousin's wedding. :)
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Can't wait. :laugh:

Bandit said:
Yeah, it's crazy to think that if Gaborik had buried that OT chance in game 3 we could be tied 2-2 even with having been utter garbage in games 1 & 2. Just goes to show how slim the margin for error is.


He'd never do it becasue Brown, but about 20 seconds before he scored he laid a clean hit on Vlasic and Vlasic two handed him. I was secretly hoping Brown would put him through the boards right after he scored, but no such luck. Also wanted Regher to tune up Burns at the end there, was probably Robin's only chance to do something meaningful for the Kings.
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Classless Kings fan.
 
Brad Doty said:
Love these:

The Mayor John Hoven ‏@mayorNHL 25m
Will say... Go back and read the tweets from morning skate. #LAKings backed up every word... That was one game, now on to the next one.

'When you seen @DustinBrown23 leading by example, like he did tonight, it makes you want to follow.' - @tytoff16 #LAKings
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Welp...Brown is never getting traded. :sarcasm:
 
Bandit said:
Yeah, it's crazy to think that if Gaborik had buried that OT chance in game 3 we could be tied 2-2 even with having been utter garbage in games 1 & 2. Just goes to show how slim the margin for error is.



He'd never do it becasue Brown, but about 20 seconds before he scored he laid a clean hit on Vlasic and Vlasic two handed him. I was secretly hoping Brown would put him through the boards right after he scored, but no such luck. Also wanted Regher to tune up Burns at the end there, was probably Robin's only chance to do something meaningful for the Kings.
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I have never seen refs get into the middle of a fight like that once it got going. I'm shocked they did. I know it's after the buzzer, but usually they at least wait until they go down or tire out.
 
Herby said:
You can't be serious. You want to fire the best coach in team history because he didn't put goons out there in the final minute.

Sutter is the best thing to happen to the Kings in a long long time. He took over a team that was spiraling into oblivion, the Kings were on there way to missing the playoffs, management was all going to be fired, probably a core player or two being traded and perhaps the Kings would be starting over with a new GM and many new players.

He took that team which was well out of the playoffs and won a Stanley Cup in dominating fashion and then returned to the Conf finals the next season and lost three games in the series by one goal despite having a vastly inferior roster.

This season he has Quick miss five weeks, on an already offensively challenged roster he has his #2 center and #1 lw turn into fourth line players, and he has his best goal scorer miss 10 more games and still makes the playoffs. Tell me any other team in the league that could stay afloat going through what Sutter went through this year with Brown and Richards? And you throw in the Carter and Quick thing, he did an amazing job this year.

Sutter does some things that piss me off sometimes too, but to say he should be let go because he didn't send tough guys at the end of the game, I just couldn't disagree more.
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The Kings don't even have Goons, so I don't know where Tonell is coming from.

Sutter is trying to win a game, he doesn't have the luxury of a 3-0 series lead to have his players act like Jackasses at the end of the game.
 
damacles1156 said:
The Kings don't even have Goons, so I don't know where Tonell is coming from.

Sutter is trying to win a game, he doesn't have the luxury of a 3-0 series lead to have his players act like Jackasses at the end of the game.
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Well I wanted Clifford out there in the final 30 seconds in the hopes he would do something stupid to get suspended for Game 5.

Maybe TG was thinking the same thing ;)
 
damacles1156 said:
Might I add as well, that Willie Mitchell's Sucker punch of a Shark is what set all that off.
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Yeah well, it was after they've spent most of the series running around like *****. Especially Brown and Torres. It's fine, that what they do, but you can't behave like that and not expect a response. Just like you can't expect to be Goffery and not have someone poison your *****ass. It's going to happen sooner or later, even if you are "the king".
 
Yep, honestly, don't give a **** about us being physical right back. Needed to happen sooner as far as I'm concerned. It's not like we were sending Clifford at Niemi, we were just having him handle ****bags like M. Brown.

Although I keep hearing references to a dirty hit by Dustin Brown so who really knows anymore.
 
Good win... team kept enough pressure in the offensive zone to get the defense a break.

King/Stoll/Williams was great!!!! Awesome 3rd line that worked well together. Poetry in motion!!! This line should never be broken up. Never!

Gaborik/Kopitar/Brown was a good line. Wish Brown got a chance during the regular season to build some chemistry with Gaborik.

Pearson/Carter/Toffoli worked. Wasn't even getting out muscled.

Did you guys catch the difference? No Lewis/King/Williams in the top 6 and the Kings dominate the Sharks. It's just to bad that Sutter wasn't willing to try this till he was down 3-0. Wish he could have worked this out in the regular season.

My fear... Sutter will not be able to help himself and at some point will do something like put Nolan on the first line.

Keep it roll'n
 
Brad Doty said:
Yep, honestly, don't give a **** about us being physical right back. Needed to happen sooner as far as I'm concerned. It's not like we were sending Clifford at Niemi, we were just having him handle ****bags like M. Brown.

Although I keep hearing references to a dirty hit by Dustin Brown so who really knows anymore.
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Seriously if it took one punch to get them to lose, throw one more and the sharks will keep falling apart
 
KingKopitar11 said:
HITTING is what the Kings live and die by. I think they forget sometimes how hated they are so they forget the effectiveness of a nice big hit. It's huge to getting a team to rethink their game or throwing them off. How do you think they made Quick into a sieve? They consistently ran him.

**** the refs for letting that happen so much though.
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What's worse is that Clifford got a penalty on Brown's BS tonight. WTF?
 
Brad Doty said:
You and me both. I chickened out right before the playoffs and bought Double Black instead. It's already gone :P

I know the odds are bad, but this could be the start of something freaking incredible.
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Gotta save the Blue Label (and it's insane price) for a special occasion. I'm tempted to watch highlights from the Flyers' comeback against the Bruins just to instill some inspiration and hope that this is still possible.

I really do hope they got in their heads and dropped a seed of doubt in there.
 
Now we have a rivalry. Nothing like a poor sport losing team to goon it up after losing 1 of 4 and being pretty lucky on some bounces in the first three games.

I hope the Kings extend the Sharks all the way. **** 'em. Would like to see 4 in a row actually. But every game you play in the playoffs makes you more tired for the next one. So extend them as much as possible Kings. Would love to go up there and take game 5.
 
Ziggy Stardust said:
Gotta save the Blue Label (and it's insane price) for a special occasion. I'm tempted to watch highlights from the Flyers' comeback against the Bruins just to instill some inspiration and hope that this is still possible.

I really do hope they got in their heads and dropped a seed of doubt in there.
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I know it sounds stupid, but I was pretty down when we had the chance to sweep New Jersey and didn't get it done.

I am thinking that's the way the Sharks took it tonight. They really thought, even with some of the lucky bounces they've had in this series, that they were gonna sweep the Kings. So maybe this got them down pretty good. I sure hope so.
 
Brown with a beasting physical game outside of the offence with the puck

Regehrs best contribution in a Kings jersey comes after the final horn of a game. Love it
 
Interesting thing..

Post game interviews, Sharks still feel good about the level of their game. Just "little things" bothering them.

Kings players don't feel good and think they can do better.

I'd be fine with the Sharks thinking they don't have to raise their competitiveness higher. Just means the Kings can climb over it.
 
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