GDT: Pittsburgh Penguins 3, Los Angeles Kings 0 (Final)

[Ron*]

Thursday • October 30, 2014 • 4:00 p.m. (PST)

LOS ANGELES KINGS
(6-1-2 • 14 PTS)
2nd Pacific Division • 2nd Western Conference • 3rd League

LINE COMBINATIONS
70 Tanner Pearson • 77 Jeff Carter • 73 Tyler Toffoli
74 Dwight King • 10 Mike Richards• 23 Dustin Brown "C"
13 Kyle Clifford • 28 Jarret Stoll • 14 Justin Williams
71 Jordan Nolan • 36 David Van Der Gulik • 15 Andy Andreoff

DEFENSE PAIRS
6 Jake Muzzin • 8 Drew Doughty
27 Alec Martinez • 44 Robyn Regehr
3 Braydon McNabb • 2 Matt Greene "A"

GOALIES
31 Martin Jones
32 Jonathan Quick

INJURIES
11 Anze Kopitar "A"
12 Marion Gaborik
22 Trevor Lewis

HEALTHY SCRATCHES
26 Slava Voynov

PITTSBURGH PENGUINS
(5-2-1 • 11 PTS)
2nd Metropolitan Division • 5th Eastern Conference • 11th League

LINE COMBINATIONS
14 Chris Kunitz "A"• 87 Sidney Crosby "C" • 72 Patric Hornqvist
9 Pascal Dupuis • 71 Evgeni Malkin "A" • 17 Blake Comeau
13 Nick Spaling • 16 Brandon Sutter • 23 Steve Downie
38 Zach Sill • 57 Marcel Goc • 27 Craig Adams

DEFENSE PAIRS
10 Christian Ehrhoff • 7 Paul Martin
3 Olli Maatta • 58 Chris Letang
47 Simon Despres • 4 Rob Scuderi

GOALIES
29 Marc Andre-Fleury
1 Thomas Greiss

INJURIES
19 Beau Bennett
41 Robert Bortuzzo

HEALTHY SCRATCHES
59 Jason Megna

GAME / NEWS UPDATES

[fieldset=Game / News Updates]• October 30, 9:04 a.m. (PST) • Martin Jones will be in goal tonight and Jonathan Quick will start against Detroit. https://twitter.com/reallisa/status/527853525800615936
• October 30, 9:02 a.m. (PST) • Penguins recall Jason Megna, may see action tonight. http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2014/10/30/pens-recall-megna/
• October 30, 8:32 a.m. (PST) • David Van Der Gulik (no. 36) will be centering the fourth line tonight for the Kings. (Tweet by Jon Rosen deleted.)
• October 29, 5:34 p.m. (PST) • David Van Der Gulik recalled. https://twitter.com/reallisa/status/527619557238665216
• October 28, 10:49 p.m. (PST) • Anze Kopitar is unofficially listed as day-to-day. https://twitter.com/Rich_Hammond/status/527123285688197120[/fieldset]

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Special thanks goes out to KingsKnight for the excellent graphics work in this GDT!
GDT updated on October 30, 2014, at 11:31 a.m. (PST)

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[Ron*]

 

[Reclamation Project]

Win this game.

 

[kingsholygrail]

Putting my crash helmet on. Anything can happen in this game. Kings have their emergency call up now right?

 

[ru4reals]

We'll Hope we get a point is all!

 

[Sacha Baron Corbin]

Assuming this will be Weal's first NHL game.

 

[The Night King]

Can't complain much about the season so far with only one regulation loss while dealing injuries. No need to rush Kopi back, and hopefully Gabby and Lewis will be ready to go soon.

 

[KingsHockey24]

God I hope Kopitar is in the lineup for tihs game, always enjoy watching him play Crosby.

 

[Scottkmlps]

Pens blew their goal load last night with 8.

 

[Lelouch]

Penguins power play is at a whopping 40.6%. Hopefully, the Kings' PK continues to be as good as it has been.

 

[Muzzinga]

Marcel Goc plays for the Penguins apparently. did not know that

 

[KopitarFAN]

Assuming this will be Weal's first NHL game.

They better be allowed an emergency call up if neither Kopi nor Lewis can go.

 

[Ollie Weeks]

Marcel Goc plays for the Penguins apparently. did not know that

And Steve Downie. And Blake Comeau.

Their forward depth is like a trivia pursuit section. "Where have they vanished to?"

 

[deeshamrock]

Jon Rosen@lakingsinsider · 37 mins37 minutes ago

Haven't heard anything about David Van der Gulik - just speculating here - but he has a $550K hit, fwiw


Jon Rosen@lakingsinsider · 38 mins38 minutes ago

Per CBA, for an emergency recall, team would be provided lg minimum + 100K of space (650K). Weal's cap hit is 610K, not counting bonus.



Jon Rosen@lakingsinsider · 40 mins40 minutes ago

Heard from hockey ops that LA may not be able to recall Weal. Salary + bonus would put him over the minimum salary. Team checking w/ league

 

[deeshamrock]

Like many posters here, upon reflecting on the first three weeks of the year, the fact this team with injuries, suspensions, man down issues, are in 2nd place in the league with 1 game less played is admirable. Hopefully in the near future they have all able bodies on deck and the road will be a bit easier.

This is a great start for them, and if they don't lose anybody else and cut down on the SOG they should fare pretty well on the road trip.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

lol. Damnit. VanDerGulik.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

Like many posters here, upon reflecting on the first three weeks of the year, the fact this team with injuries, suspensions, man down issues, are in 2nd place in the league with 1 game less played is admirable. Hopefully in the near future they have all able bodies on deck and the road will be a bit easier.

This is a great start for them, and if they don't lose anybody else and cut down on the SOG they should fare pretty well on the road trip.

Exactly. I'm thrilled with how this has gone so far. Partially because it has also showcased how when one part of our team is struggling, another picks it up. Was really hoping Weal would get a cup of coffee now too.

Unfortunately, losing points in front of the east coasters means we have to deal with the Kopitar/Doughty/Quick are overrated garbage some more...but I like sneaking up on people in the playoffs anyway

 

[Bandit]

lol. Damnit. VanDerGulik.

Seriously. Might as well just play with 17 skaters.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

Have to imagine Kopitar and Lewis are really close. Gaborik I hope they take their time with. But if no one is going on LTIR despite being out a long time, I'll take that as a positive.

 

[Little Psycho]

That Steve Harvey gif is very apporiate after reading Rosen's tweets.

 

[Buddy The Elf]

Jon Rosen@lakingsinsider · 40 mins40 minutes ago

Heard from hockey ops that LA may not be able to recall Weal. Salary + bonus would put him over the minimum salary. Team checking w/ league[/I]

I'm no CBA expert nor am I an accountant but how in the hell would a player hit a bonus in one game? That's all they can come up with? What a joke!

 

[deeshamrock]

Good to see all the boys out there practicing. Would be nice if Lewis and Kopi were both back on Thursday.

Jon Rosen @lakingsinsider · 21m 21 minutes ago

Full team practice today. Kopitar, Gaborik, Lewis taking part. No surprises on the ice personnel-wise.

 

[Ron*]

Good to see all the boys out there practicing. Would be nice if Lewis and Kopi were both back on Thursday.

Jon Rosen @lakingsinsider · 21m 21 minutes ago

Full team practice today. Kopitar, Gaborik, Lewis taking part. No surprises on the ice personnel-wise.

I'm thinking that's what is going to happen; that we won't need an emergency call-up.

 

[Little Psycho]

@reallisa: Lewis and Kopitar close to returning but obv not going to take a chance at this stage.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

@reallisa: Lewis and Kopitar close to returning but obv not going to take a chance at this stage.

I want them in the lineup really badly but the boldfaced is REALLY good to hear. DOn't need people rushing back and aggravating things.