The Kings have faced the San Jose Sharks four times this season, but they shouldn’t bother studying the game film too closely. The Sharks were treading water for the first three months of season, but since Jan. 13 they have been on fire, with a 21-4-3 record that has carried them to the top of the Pacific Division. The Kings are 2-2 against the Sharks this season, most recently beating them 3-2 in a shootout on Jan. 26 at Staples Center, but the Sharks take a three-game winning streak into tonight’s home game against Calgary had have totaled 14 goals in their last three games. Terry Murray said he planned to watch tonight’s Sharks-Flames game…
MURRAY: “As you go through it, the process of maturing as a team, it does come down to the execution, when you come down to a time, in playoff situations, where you get tested time and again. You get great awareness of what it is that you need to do every night in order to make a big push. It’s just a process. You see it so many times with young hockey clubs. You take a step backward, you take two ahead, and you just go through it. They seem to be coming to their time right now, where it is their opportunity to put it all together. They’ve got a lot of experience, world-class players, a top line, a good back end, and they’re just making the big push and they know how to do it right now.”
Lets make some shark fin soup tomorrow boys. The keys to the game will be to keep the puck out of their offensive players hand as much as possible by cycling in the offensive zone and slowing them down with good forecheck and hitting. secondary and even tertiary scoring are going to be key. I expect a low scoring affair again. whoever scores 2 goals should win.
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USHA#17 Reply:
March 23rd, 2011 at 7:50 pm
@tornado12,
4-2 Sharks at end of 1st.
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cpmc29 Reply:
March 23rd, 2011 at 8:02 pm
@USHA#17, ducks lose dallas 3-2. Oops ducks tie it selane. Damn 3 point game.
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PRMan Reply:
March 24th, 2011 at 5:11 am
@cpmc29, Nice jinx.
Im up in SJ right now and I’m sick of these clowns (fans) saying how bad they are going to beat us tomorrow. Lets put them back in check!!!
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Dave's a Killer Reply:
March 23rd, 2011 at 7:34 pm
@408kingsfan, I know how you feel. I am up the hill in Tahoe and the shark fans are the worst, especially since their team started playing so well.
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Kings are on a 17-4-5. They’re no slouches either.
With how close the standings and games are and now with Williams’ injury, I’d like the Kings to just trap the rest of the season. If they take every game to overtime, that’s 9 points right there, taking them to 97, which should be enough. And if they win a few of those OT games, that’s even better.
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KC23 Reply:
March 23rd, 2011 at 6:20 pm
@Jim Jones, We just win at the pace we’ve won all season and we’ll be fine. Love to get 100 pts or better though.
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it’s going to be a big 4 point game tomorrow night. if the kings have any chance of winning the division, they need to prove they deserve it with a big win
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luc20rules Reply:
March 23rd, 2011 at 7:27 pm
@sid the kid, If the Kings have any dreams of winning the division. I believe it will take a sweep of the 2 remaining games verse the Sharks, and 11 points in the remaining 10 standing points in the other 7 games, maybe 11 if we don’t beat the Sharks in Regulation both times. I think it is necessary to take the next 6 pts in the next 3 games for sure Sharks, Col, and Edm.
Go Kings Go!
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What's the frequency, Kenneth? Reply:
March 24th, 2011 at 10:14 am
@luc20rules, Yeah, I calculated they need to beat the Sharks both times in regulation and still play slightly better than the Sharks going down the stretch. There’s also Phoenix, of course.
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What's the frequency, Kenneth? Reply:
March 24th, 2011 at 10:15 am
It’s worth pointing out they’re more likely to miss the playoffs (!) than make 3rd place, according to sportsclubstats.
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Maybe it’s me but TM is showing these guys way too much respect. Fine to aknowledge for the sake of calibration of the mission and the urgency needed for it, but must you bow down TM?
Lead Please…
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PRMan Reply:
March 24th, 2011 at 5:12 am
@jess, It’s the old Lou Holtz method: Delaware is a very good team that could easily beat us…
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jess Reply:
March 24th, 2011 at 11:12 am
@PRMan, send lou my best will ya?
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Is Braden Schenn eligible to return to the Kings this season?
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KDinUT Reply:
March 23rd, 2011 at 6:43 pm
@demob, Only once his junior team is out of the playoffs.
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Ducks are at it again…..and frikken Sedin!
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luc20rules Reply:
March 23rd, 2011 at 7:30 pm
@Deke’r, I actually like the Vanc won tonight. The only team I really don’t want to play in the West is Chicago. Detroit plays still plays them 3 times. If Chicago gets in I want them playing Vanc. then Det in road series, before going against us.
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Deke'r Reply:
March 23rd, 2011 at 7:51 pm
@luc20rules, I really didn’t care who won….just frikken Sedin!
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Why are the Sharks always atop our division? I would really like to bask in glory at our team absolutely dominating for a few years.
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Deke'r Reply:
March 23rd, 2011 at 7:51 pm
@jonsey, They’re a good team?
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Newf Reply:
March 24th, 2011 at 1:29 am
@Deke’r, true, but they’ve BEEN a good team. The other teams in the division had been rebuilding, or just having off years. SJ will do as they usually do, get in the playoffs and fizzle out. the only difference for them this year is Niemi in net…will he do what he did last year? we’ll have to see.
SJ may have us beat up front, but they don’t really touch us in the back-end. That’s where we’ll have our edge on them in the upcoming games.
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No help from Florida tonight against Chicago and with a couple mins. to go Dallas leading the Quacks . . .
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jess Reply:
March 23rd, 2011 at 7:59 pm
@KDinUT, Hazey needs a breath mint
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jess Reply:
March 23rd, 2011 at 8:02 pm
@jess, oh man they tied it..
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KDinUT Reply:
March 23rd, 2011 at 8:05 pm
@jess, Had to choose between the Quacks feed or the Stars feed – went with Dallas only because they are slightly less homers than the Anaheim pair. Both are painful . . .
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jess Reply:
March 23rd, 2011 at 8:41 pm
@KDinUT, oh yeah there is nothing worse then ducks comentators
KDinUT Reply:
March 23rd, 2011 at 8:03 pm
@KDinUT, Nooooo!!! Not a 3 pt. game – wide open net for Selanne . . .
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KDinUT Reply:
March 23rd, 2011 at 8:07 pm
@KDinUT, Quacks in OT – ugh!
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Isn’t Selanne too old to play in the NHL?
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Lets first harpon the Sharks, and then its soon Duck hunting season, when you ask, end of season games we pluck ourselves some duck for soup. The tightness of this conference is crazy, what is going on, if this is salary cap stuff holy cow the NHL couldn’t have hit any richer.
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Think SO wins may bite us in the ass, we allready dropped to 6th because of it.
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Off subject. You guys seen the Yahoo sport page about the save that Quick made on
Monday? It’s cool, watch it here:
http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/blog/puck_daddy/post/Video-Jonathan-Quick-may-in-fact-control-puck?urn=nhl-wp888
It goes on to say: “there’s only one good explanation, which is that Jonathan Quick is a telepath who can control things with his mind. Please, give this man the Vezina Trophy before he makes your brain pop like in “Scanners.”
LMAO
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I know it’s all too obvious, but we have to score more goals. Looking at the West logjam, it’s scary that we are by far, right now, the most offensively challenged team in the race. Two goals in our last three games, including one vs. a Calgary team that just gave up a sixpack to SJ. All I get here outside Philly is this site, but it seems that TM is out and out trying to win every game 1-0; is our offense really that challenged? Do you guys think we can actually score 9 goals in the next nine games and make it in?
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If there was ever a game for the Kings to come out and prove that they belong in playoffs and can hang with the big dogs this would be it. I hope they win tonight it would be such a huge win.
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I’m not as concerned about winning this game as much as I am worried about another letdown on Saturday vs. COL. The Kings are their own worst enemy.
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Bob Bobson Reply:
March 24th, 2011 at 11:18 am
@Capt Jam, I like this point a lot. The Kings have shown that they are capable of beating or matching up against (friggin VAN) the best teams in the NHL. They just lack consistency in the same effort every night.
I attribute this to some extremes within the team’s age too. They are young (Doughty, Kopitar, Johnson, etc) or old (Handzus, Smyth, etc). Hopefully this can be addressed in the off-season.
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