It will be interesting to see how the special-teams game plays out tonight. Anaheim enters the game with the NHL’s fourth-best power-play, in terms of success rate, and is ranked 22nd in penalty-kill percentage, but the Kings have had only one power play in each of their last two games. Of course, power-play chances are largely at the whim of the officials, but to some extent, players can increase their chances of drawing penalties by going to tough areas of the ice and putting opponents in difficult situations. After today’s skate, I asked Murray about the recent power-play paucity and if the Kings could do anything to improve it…
MURRAY: “I’m not sure about that. I think we’ve been working very hard. When you have teams that are intense, on the puck and working and moving their feet, usually the end result is that there are very few penalties and power plays, because of the focus put on the importance of the game. The officiating has been really good. They definitely have awareness to what’s at stake for every team. I watch a game last night, Vancouver and Phoenix, and it ends up at the end of the game where you say, `Gee.’ But it’s the right call. They end up with a five-minute power play and score two big goals and end up winning the game. We just have to keep skating. Whenever we’ve been playing our game, the power plays fall where they may. We deserve them sometimes, because of the hard work and moving our feet and doing the right things.”
Guarantee that the Kings will get more than one PP tonight.
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I like the little bit ive seen from the 1st PP unit.
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TM,
Backdoor please. Just 1 this season if at all possible, and I’ll shut up about it.
At least till Monday.
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CB14 Reply:
March 19th, 2011 at 4:06 pm
@Dominick, That’s what I tell my girlfriend as well. LOL!
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What's the frequency, Kenneth? Reply:
March 19th, 2011 at 5:06 pm
@CB14, TMI!
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CB14 Reply:
March 19th, 2011 at 5:28 pm
@What’s the frequency, Kenneth?, Come on Kenneth, you don’t? LOL
In all seriousness though, the way Dominick worded it I had to write something. Just change the TM to my girlfriend and it fits perfectly. Whoops. I just set myself up for a “That’s what she said!” joke!
I’ve got to admit I’m nervous about tonights game. As we’ve
seen this year, we have a MPD team…
Multiple Personality Disorder…
Which team shows up tonight??
I hope it’s the winning one…
Me and myself will be watching tonight..
GKG….
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Dear Muarry,
If the Kings even think of playing the way they did last game, I will be booing you only! We pay a lot of money to go to these games and if you play to win and loose no need to boo…
But never ever tell us what we should or should not do, last game they did not even try to win and fans should get thier money back for a lousy game…
Anyways, lets go Kings and kick the ducks buns!
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Paucity. Now thats a cool word.Nice one Rich.
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YoBro Reply:
March 19th, 2011 at 5:29 pm
@Lead Feet, All right Hammond, drop the thesaurus and step away! jk
Go Kings
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Stay out of the penalty box tonight, and play hard Kings. These two points are a must have.
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Go Kings … get a few power play goals!
Btw just my opinion but booing home team stinks! We pay alot of money but there is no “guarantee win” on any ticket.
Its poor sportsmanship and we should get back to common courtesy. Get your boos out when away team takes the ice, still bad sportsmanship but at least its not at who we are suppose to be supporting. IMO
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And just so Terry can relax:
“Boo” is actually the first syllable of “Boo-Yah!”
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get Marty on the first PP unit
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