alt="LA Kings Insider with Rich Hammond" />Florida enters tonight’s game with 15 points in 17 games, and it’s not difficult to see why. The Panthers have the NHL’s second-worst power play (13.0 percent) and its third-worst penalty-kill unit (74.2). Then again, the Kings have the fifth-worst penalty-kill unit (75.6) and have already lost to the team with the worst power play (Nashville, 11.6), so don’t read too much into numbers.
Here’s what Terry Murray said this morning, when asked if he had a message to the team about not looking past the Panthers and instead looking forward to the flight home…
MURRAY: “I think the message was sent to us in Atlanta. I’m hoping that that’s not that far away, that we’re not losing sight of what happened there. There was awareness brought to this game yesterday, in our team meeting, and we’ve got a great leadership group. There’s veteran guys, there are young guys there now, and they all bring it together. They talk about these things and we’ll be ready to play here tonight, to finish this thing off the right way.”
That’s ok. The Los Angeles Kings make any team’s powerplay and penalty kill look like the best powerplay and penalty kill in the league!
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Correct! Our specials teams are i feel barely starting to pick up…i hope
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Well I would not go that far. When they are on their game mentally you can see it. But if just one of their noodles wanders from the game, it sends the PK/PP unit into disarray.
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I think some people have changed user names recently…
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We can’t win a damn faceoff.
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Yeah but if Matt Moulson was playing on our PP and PK units we’d be in the top 3.
The negativity these days for a team that is 12-7-1 is unbelievable. Yeah there are things that need to be worked on, but you’d almost think they were 7-12-1. Fro needs to be on this line…if only we gave Moulson a chance…and so on and so forth…unbelievable.
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