Rob Scuderi’s postgame thoughts…
(on the game…)
SCUDERI: “Whether it’s a heartbreaker in overtime or a blowout, it’s stil worth one game in the series. We didn’t do a whole lot right tonight, so I have confidence that if we play the right way, we give ourselves a chance to win every night. We have in the regular season and we have here in the playoffs. We just haven’t been able to stick that 60 minutes together some nights, and tonight was certainly one of them.”
(on the rising goals-against totals in this series…)
SCUDERI: “I would love to throw it all on the goalies’ lap, but our lack of structure and discipline and team play gave them those chances. That cannot happen in the playoffs. You have to play disciplined. As boring as it might seem sometimes, you have to do it, because when you give up those chances, to the type of talent they have over there, it’s only a matter of time before it’s in the back of your net.”
Scuds
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Anyone remember LaBarbera? Garon? Brust??? Just be happy you’re here Kings fans, it could be a lot worse.
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Why do I keep hearing it doesn’t matter if it was 3-2 or 7-2? IT DOES MATTER!!!! You got your asses kicked and there is NOTHING to take from this game, which can be seriously deflating to a young team. “Shake it off”, win game six and go up there and kick their asses…..PLEASE!!!!!
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gonna go back to playing boring…as long as we win i don’t care GO KINGS
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It’s those bad calls!!! – those refs just happened to look the other way when the Nucks are tackling and pulling down the Kings players.
Everybody knows that West Canadian bias – you know Bettman and the NHL are dying for a Vancouver – Boston final, so they’ll do whatever it takes to have that! If you take a look at the silhouette of the ref, it looks exactly like a shadow of the guy on the grassy knoll…
I kid Canucks fans of course—Vancouver outplayed the Kings tonight, plain and simple – they dictated play. End of story! Next!
On to Sunday! And hopefully a better effort.
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It happens to every team boys.
Sooner or later we had to get a game like this.
Blow it off… Kick ass Sunday.
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dman
yes, but it’s really easy to outplay team with incapable goalie. Put Bernier in and you have enitrelly different story. Remember 8 to 3? Would and will never happen with JQ in goal.
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@adi, you’re a funny guy!
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Like it or not, Jonathan Quick has earned the right to play in these games. Bernier will not be called up to replace him. This series is Quick’s to win or lose.
f I was Coach Murray, I would not show one piece of video from this game, positive or negative. Don’t bring it up. Forget about it completely. I would be showing the great come from behind wins from the season, and clips from games that we dominated. Show some of the 8-2 game we won against Vancouver during the season. Pump them up! Build that confidence back up!
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Just a dose of reality to all the people calling for Bernier. He has 4 career NHL regular season wins. Quick won 39 games this year alone and kept the team in games 1 & 2 by himslef. Do you really think throwing Bernier into an elimination game 6 environment that he has never seen before is the answer? I can’t believe I am responding to this. It’s ridiculous.
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@Alex, thank you!
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Got to show OBrian’s antics!
Run it on a loop in the locker room before the game.
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Sorrry to say but the series is gnna end with us losing that was the worst gamee everrr!!!! Wthhhh??? Can’t believe how bad kings played!
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Helene is back to her “old” self:
Is this how the Kings will allow their season to end, outmuscled and outclassed, fading away under a barrage of glove-side-high goals and giveaways that stain the memory of the progress they had made?
Their 7-2 loss to the Canucks on Friday at GM Place was an abomination of bad goaltending and bad defensive play, a deplorable effort by a team that had, rightfully, prided itself on its cohesion and resilience.
….Can say, TONIGHT, I agree with her! UGH!!
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This is the game that we should have seen in round 1. But as DL said very eloquantly, these guys went to the top and created expectations for themselves. They weren’t satisified with being the Cinderella team. Now they are dealing with those expectations.
Kopi really needs to trust that if he breaks out that everyone else on the team has his back. The veterans are doing nothing but taking penalties. Regardless of what they have been told about the playoffs, trust in Doughty, Johnson, Simmer, Richie, Brown, Fro, to have your back.
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Adi,
Is your helmet strap cutting off the circulation?Maybe it’s just hard to read your blackberry from the back of the short bus.I’m not sure what you’ve been doing all season long,but your time sure wasn’t spent reading any of the articles about why Bernier is in Manchester.I’m guessing your just too self absorbed to care,or you just jumped on the band wagon just before the playoffs started.
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I was at gam,e 4, and let me tell you the atmosphere of all the fan were amazing. I sat right under Rich hammond, but the 300′s are the ebst seats in the hosue cause all the real hockey fans are up their. Everyone was pumped until the refs blew the call with Luongo knocking the ent off with the play not even in the zone. It went downhill from there. Tonights game was a tough loss, but we are from LA, we are the Kings, we havent been in a playoff in eight years, and now is our chance to shine, we worked sop hard to get ehre, and all of us fans are so pumped to see our boys in the playoffs, i have played hockey my whole life, and tonights loss was a tough one, but we jsut need to keep pushing and get refocused for Game 6, were back at home so we have that advantage, we just need to stay tough stick to our game we played during the regular season, let Quick see all the shots, and make sure we shut down the Sedins and Samuellson like we did the rest of the series up until the last 10 minutes in the 3rd period of game 4, we need to go back to that gameplay and stay true to oruselves and we will win this series…..14 more wins and L.A will be celebrating a Kings Stanley Cup, and a Lakers Championship, and then we will be unstoppable….GO KINGS GO
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Plain and simple: This isn’t “Quick’s series to win or lose.” He is one damn player. And for the last two months, aside from two games, A HORRIBLE PLAYER. This is why Rich repeatedly said “he hasn’t even played a whole season, so let’s not annoint Quick the #1 goalie just yet.” Ersberg was chased, too. But at least he came in cold. I don’t think this team has one iota of confidence in Quick, or else everyone wouldn’t be breaking coverage trying to do ANYTHING TO AVOID A SHOT GETTING THROUGH TO QUICK! Had we a competent (too harsh?), at least focused goalie, this series would be done. Luongo has proven himself the most underrated goalie in the NHL. Look at Luongo’s numbers. All Quick had to do was have a pulse to outduel Luongo. LOOK AT LUONGO’S #’S! A SIMPLE PULSE FROM QUICK COULD’VE DONE IT!!!
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I meant Luongo is overrated. Not under. He blows.
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@Dominick: hahahaha I love that stuff!
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scuds is a stud reguardless. hes a good pick up. now justin williams? not so much. Hey, i dont want the Kings in the next round just because i like em. I want them to earn that Sh$$. If the canucks end up winning, who cares, then the kings didnt want it that bad. thats my 2 cents.
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I just wanna see a solid effort on Sunday. If they can take Vancouver to 7, win or lose I would be proud of the accomplishment.
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To all the id*ots who r blaming the refs,bettman,nhl or anything else, grow the **** up – you sound like friggin canucks fans… we had one lousy game so far! it came in a bad time, but it happened. Move on! For better or for worse LA Kings!
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btw, i’m really concern about our 5-5 play in this series…
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MIK3Ysfv,
Yes, Luongo is a seasoned goalie, but fell short in the first few games. Let me just say he collapsed and cheers from the fans, ha ha, ha ha again, but he regained his stance. Did we Kings fans think that he was done, even though we gleefully scored 9 PP goals on him? Yes. Stupidly we did.
I hope our guys are not so gullible.
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@Alex, i am with u all the way….people need to realize that bernier wont be the answer in game 6, thats just crazy!!!!
on a different note, we need to sit jones (how many more turnovers did he have today?), sit williams, he is pretty useless, sit halpern he is useless.
Here is my main problem with having williams here: remember when we had demitra here and it was deemed that he is prone to injury? and we traded him for o’sullivan? that was a bad trade, then we traded o’sullivan for williams who is even more injury-prone then demitra. that was a mistake to bring williams here…
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On replay, 7-2, what a spanking! Damn.
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The Los Angeles Kings are quitters. The rate they have gone in this series, they showed all of Los Angeles that they gave up. Maybe they don’t want to play anymore and are getting tired. If that is the case, Vancouver deserves to win this series and it was because of a few and including Jones and Quick who is part of this collapse.
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I’m going to repost this in every thread I see in the hopes just ONE player will see it:
In the playoffs….
There are no ‘Off Nights’.
….only players who don’t show up.
Make sure you’re all there Sunday night because we will be…and we deserve to see you all win this SERIES like we know you can.
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@Gayle
Get thee behind me Satan!
What are you, a Duck fan? Frustration is one thing, but calling the team quitters when the series isn’t over yet?
You are not a fan of this team. You’re willing them to lose. I reverse your evil Ju-Ju.
If you are a fan, by calling them quitters, You’re quitting on them too. Therefore you are no longer a fan.
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OMG I thought I was bad. C’mon people! Yes the boys sucked tonight, and nobody knows it more than them. What it must feel like to know you let down a whole city the size of L.A. Staples is going to explode when they hit the ice and that will propel them to victory. Can you imagine what Vancouver will be thinking if it goes back to GM Place for game 7? There’s nothing else to say except GO KINGS GO
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@Cynic, you have a right to your opinion and I have a right to mine, ok, so let’s leave it at that. There is no need to get mad here, this is what I’ve observed about this team and yes, I have been a fan and wanting them to do well, however, quitting should not be in a person’s vocabulary.
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@Gayle
I definitely respect opinions. I don’t respect disrespect or hypocrisy.
I know you’re angry, me too. These guys are human. I can’t do what they do. All I CAN do is vent my frustration constructively and hope they actually read it. Chances are they dont’ but stranger things have happened.
If those strange thing did happen, I’d want my impression to those guys to be more positive and real than negative and emotional.
I will just say though, you mentioned the word ‘Quitting’ shouldn’t be in a person’s vocabulary. I agree. So why did you attach that word to the team you claim to be a fan of? In my opinion, they’re NEVER quitters, they just didn’t show up tonight. Since they never quit, they can show up again though, right?
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@dMan, @Alex,
These boards are putting a bad taste in my mouth, too.
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I realize most of these posts are out of disappointment rather than hate. Let’s face it, we have let expectations out-run reality.
The Kings are a good team, vancouver is a better team (for now). I expected to lose last night, just not humiliated.
Play-offs are funny. Had Luongo not swept the goal off the line in game 1, we would have been up 3-0 before last night. Imagine that! Up 3-0 on a team that had the highest GF in the league, won 3 out of 4 head to heads during the season.
Maybe this was a good thing. Let’s see what grit we have and play on what we CAN do, remember the finger pointing of that player (a rub-it-in gesture), and kick butt!!!!
Remember we got here with the team we HAVE, not what we wish for or might have next year. Cleaning house because we lose a blowout? That was the Kings of the PAST.
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“There are NO OFF NIGHTS … only Players who don’t show up.”
I just wrote a long, bitter comment about the Kings performance last night, but I deleted it. I sounded more like Howard Cossell, the man who could eloquently overstate the blatantly obvious. So, being a fan, and searching for something positive here, let me just add this.
You know how we were talking about the Kings needing to learn how to put a foot on an opponent’s throat and not let up? I can only hope that these Kings, young and old alike, now know exactly what that feels like. I can only hope that these Kings swear, by whatever they truly believe in, that it will never happen again.
That’s about as positive as I can get.
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Gretzky was having a great year with the Edmonton Oilers,early in his career.One year they met the NY Islanders,and the Isle’s took them out.He said”I never learned more about winning than I did that series”.
Walking thru the hall way ,after the game he saw the dressing room door open,and he saw a team completely exhausted.He thought to himself”they gave more than we did,and left nothing out there”.He came back the next season refocused,never forgetting the lesson that he had learned,from that playoff series,and went on to win 4 Stanley Cups in a row.
Some times the hardest lessons to learn start with losing.Wether we win tomorrow,or get eliminated,I believe we are still on the path to building something special.Lets not tear down this team,becuse we’re disappointed that they didn’t win,but celabrate what they have accomplished,and where we are headed,for the next 10 years.
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Scuds gets it. The goaltender isn’t superman. He can stand on his head, but when a team plays like this in front of him, why? Shake it off and try not to embarrass yourselves in front of your fans Sunday.
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lets face it scuds was right, there was way to many break down in the d-fensive zone. But quick gave up way to many short sided goals. Its plain and simple the nucks watched tape and found quicks weakness. Now to say he won the right to play is crazy. Terry said it himself, no on player is bigger then the team. So why play this bum when he’s giving up softies. second he didnt play that well during the reg season. Yes 39 wins is good but thats a team effort and he nearly played every game. look at quick save% this year its near the bottom of the leage isnt that sad. So you say he’s good and should be playing in these games I say he’s over rated and should be benched untill he can find a way to be more poised in net and stop jumping around in bet.
Bring Bernier Back!!! thats is you want to win.
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thats if you want to win*
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