The St. Louis Blues were hungry for revenge. Upset with the Kings — and particularly Dwight King, whose hit took top defenseman Alex Pietrangelo out of the lineup for Game 2 — the Blues came out hitting. That’s understandable,. Problem is, at some points the Blues seemed more concerned about hitting the Kings than beating them. The Blues delivered a series of teeth-rattling hits, but the Kings didn’t wilt. Yes, the Blues sit a physical tone in the first period, but they also recorded only five shots on goal and allowed four goals. That’s not a formula for success. Count on that changing in Game 3. The Blues made their statement, and knocked the Kings around, but the Blues are more effective when they simply forecheck aggressively and fight for loose pucks. The Blues have to find some answers, particularly on the power play, and they can’t afford another period like the first period last night. Here’s how the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Belleville News-Democrat covered last night’s game, followed by some additional postgame quotes from the Blues…
St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s Blues coverage
Belleville News-Democrat’s Blues coverage
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COACH KEN HITCHCOCK
(on the game…) “In the playoffs, it’s one loss, so you move on. I think there are some obvious things that we have to address. Power play is costing us in a big way. We’re going to have to address that again. It’s hurting us. Shorthanded goals build a lot of momentum. We’ve had two shorthanded goals in the two games, taking away our momentum. Careless plays by us. And full marks to them. Their emotional investment in the first period was greater than ours. We started to play later, but you don’t know how much they’re sitting back, so it’s a hard read for them. And their goalie was good again. We pounded a lot of shots in the last two periods, but still, we only scored two goals. We’ve got to invest a lot more, early in the game. And like I said, that’s the nice part about playoffs. It’s one game, it’s one loss. Move on.”
(on the game…) “They’re full marks. They checked us hard. They checked us hard and we coughed up the puck. We made mistakes. To me, the first goal was a perfect example. The game is at a furious pace, and we’ve just got to get it deep, and we try to make an extra play. We’re trying to create something from nothing, and next thing you know, we’re picking it out of our net. That’s an attitude. We’re trying to force offense. The way we finished Game 1 is the same way we started Game 2. We’re trying to force offense when it’s not there. They’re pressing up, and we’ve just got to make them turn, like we did in the second and third period. When you try to force offense, you try to play east-west. Against this team, they check too well, and they just turned the puck right up on us, three times, and two were in the net.’’
(on the status of injured defenseman Alex Pietrangelo…) “He’s day-to-day. He’s tried it today, and he’s still sore. It’s a big hole. Not a lot different if they lost Doughty. Same thing. But I think, with the full two days off, hopefully he’s good to go. Unfortunately, he couldn’t play today, but we need him back in the lineup if we’re going to… Our job, right now, is to come back to our fans here. That’s our job. Win one of the next two games, to get it back here. We’ve played awful well on the road in the playoffs. Like I said, it’s only one loss. It doesn’t feel good right now. The first period doesn’t feel good. The way we played on the power play doesn’t feel good. We’ve got two days to regroup here and put our best foot forward. All you can do is ask for your best, and today was not our best. Today’s first period was not our best. We need to make amends for ourselves.’’
(on the status of injured goalie Jaroslav Halak…) “Jaro is out for the series. He won’t play in the series.’’
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T.J. OSHIE
(on the game…) “It was just a bad start. Guys weren’t ready to go, and they were. We knew they were going to be coming out firing, getting that first (win) under their belt and having a chance to win two and go back to their barn for the second two. They just came out firing, and we weren’t ready, physically and mentally. Most importantly, mentally. We need to be smarter. We need to work smarter.’’
(on the frustration with the poor start…) “It’s very frustrating, because we know our game plan. We know what we need to do when we are successful, and we didn’t do that here tonight. It should be a staple of our game, to get the puck deep and play good team defense, and that was nowhere to be found in the first period.’’
(on the Blues’ power play…) “We need to win the special-teams battle. Quick is a great goaltender, but you can score goals on him. We’ve seen people score goals on him. We have in the past. We’ve just got to get to him. He’s hot right now. We’ve got to get traffic, more shots, and hopefully we can squeak a couple ugly ones in.’’
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DAVID BACKES
(on the game…) “If we play like we did tonight, with not enough guys going, it’s going to be tough to win wherever we are. If we’re playing on the moon, we’re not going to win.’’
I think we should thank for the crappy Sharks’ PK cause the Blues thought their PP was great. They should hae realized that they were going to face the completely different level of PK unit.
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Paul Armbruster (KingsNewsDaily.com) Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 10:07 am
@goldielocks,
The Blues PP was worse than ours during the season so I’m not sure how great they thought it was.
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goldielocks Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 10:35 am
@Paul Armbruster (KingsNewsDaily.com),
Yeah but their PP was very successful in that VS. SJ series.
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SDGolfer Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 12:20 pm
@goldielocks, SJ PK % was 29th in the league.
Gary Livingston Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 2:00 pm
@Paul Armbruster (KingsNewsDaily.com),
Blues changed their PP formation and game plan during the SJ series and it looked like it was the smartest thing ever. They were scoring like crazy on their PP and constantly putting pressure on the Sharks during that series.
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centericeman Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 10:41 am
@goldielocks, Off topic: I was just wondering if we were going to have to listen to “hazy” for the rest of this series or next? Count on NBC to make people listen to the opposite side of the truth, they do that regularly!!!
Why can’t we have anouncerst that are at least objective? Instead we have duck anouncers that would like nothing better than to see the Kings defeated. And are constantly making snide comments, like they do during the regular season, that are just biased toward duckville!
What is wrong with Jim Fox doing the color for Kings games?
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Paul Armbruster (KingsNewsDaily.com) Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 10:46 am
@centericeman, All of this is answered below.
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PRMan Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 11:21 am
@centericeman, I absolutely LOVED hearing Hazy have to give the Kings compliments last night. You could tell he was doing it through gritted teeth at first. But once he sensed the all-Blues east coast bias of the other 2, it sounded by the 3rd like he was actually defending us (well, at least Quick).
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JWRocks! Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 1:33 pm
@centericeman, You didn’t like his “I’m glad the Blues are starting to play better” remark? I thought for sure we were listening to the St. Louis home tv feed!
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Strong start-Strong finish. Keep it up boys, don’t take your foot off the pedal until you have 10 more wins in the bag. Keep the same intensity going on home ice. GO KINGS GO!
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Tired of listening to the NBC telecast! They sound like the blues telecast team. And to listen to Brian Hayward? Ugh…
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Die Hard Kings Fan Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 9:59 am
@Jgomez, The “GAME” and the NHL fans would benefit BIG TIME if only they would allow Bob & Jim to provide the play by play. Both of them are a real Class Act that could turn a good game into a Great Experience for any TV audience.
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Tweeners Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 10:04 am
@Die Hard Kings Fan, Absolutely agree. It was ridiculous how biased the comments were from the NBC announcers. The quacks announcer at one point saying how DD did a good job of lowering his shoulder to allow the Blues player to CROSSCHECK him in the head and draw a penalty..ASININE!!
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Minnesota Kings Fan Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 10:08 am
@Die Hard Kings Fan,
Never was there a more true statement. I’m just glad they’re doing a postgame show I can actually see on FSW by way of the DirecTV local sports channels package! Makes me forget about the knuckleheaded, ill-informed commentary I have to endure from NBC sports.
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Dump and Chase Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 10:40 am
@Minnesota Kings Fan,
You have no idea. After dealing with Jim Hughson for the Vancouver series (I am on the East Coast), these guys seemed like Vin Scully and Chick Hearn (before he went senile) . Although there was some questionable analysis they seemed to try to give the Kings credit without calling the game as over and convincing the viewers to change channels.
Mars Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 10:05 am
@Jgomez, I wish Bob and Foxy would do a radio cast or hijack the SAP feed. They have truly spoiled us with their award winning coverage. it is painful to go back to others.
I pray Bob can pull a Dick Clark or Johnny Carson and go on for what seems like forever.
I really dont get how the other guys we have been stick with have jobs. Seriously they are the worst. They have to have a deal with the devil or something. Truly ear bleeding, aneurism material. Worse than torture. I was muting the TV a lot and going back to audio to hear the hits.
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Minnesota Kings Fan Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 10:12 am
@Mars,
Hey, Dave Strader isn’t too bad. He was the voice of the Red Wings for a long time and does a decent job. It’s Engblom I can’t stand. He doesn’t really add anything to the game except give the same, tired, generic commentary. The Blues are going to have to work harder, Dave.” YA THINK?
Although I can’t believe I’m saying this, Brian Hayward hasn’t been that bad. At least he actually is familiar with the Kings and actually treats them with some level of respect, unlike most of the rest of the national media.
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Lime Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 10:43 am
@Minnesota Kings Fan, I too cannot believe I’m saying this but Hayward did an acceptable job. He made a few statements that made me turn my head but for the most part he gave credit where credit was due.
PRMan Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 11:23 am
@Minnesota Kings Fan, Yeah, but only after he sensed the massive East Coast Bias the whole game…
Paul Armbruster (KingsNewsDaily.com) Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 10:11 am
@Jgomez,
It was mentioned last night but I’ll say it again here. It was a blowout after the first period. They were desperately trying to keep the audience. If the score was reversed, you can bet they would have been saying the same things about the Kings.
However, I’d rather listen to Paris Hilton read Hamlet than one word from Brian Hayward.
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WmsJersey Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 10:38 am
@Paul Armbruster (KingsNewsDaily.com),
“I’d rather listen to Paris Hilton read Hamlet than one word from Brian Hayward.” Priceless – It’s been said before, but Rich needs a “like” button on this blog.
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Jon (@RinkRoyaltyJon) Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 10:42 am
@Paul Armbruster (KingsNewsDaily.com), “However, I’d rather listen to Paris Hilton read Hamlet than one word from Brian Hayward.”
Quote of the year right there!
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Shotongoal Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 10:50 am
@Paul Armbruster (KingsNewsDaily.com), You forgot naked. She would have to be…….
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Like Wall Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 11:05 am
@Paul Armbruster (KingsNewsDaily.com), Concur. Game was out of hand and they were trying to keep the audience by describing activity that could have led to a tighter game.
Perception is reality in this case.
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Sick of Hayward Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 10:12 am
@Jgomez, NBC telecast was the worst thing I’ve ever heard. Bob and Jim know how to give each team their respect, rather than crediting every Kings accomplishment to a Blues mistake.
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Pili Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 10:30 am
@Sick of Hayward, I look forward to Kings Live after the game. Great stuff.
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Forum Gold Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 10:39 am
@Pili, Any replay of Kings Live on the net? I have looked and can not find it. Would also love to see the intermisiions with Bob and Jim. GO KINGS GO!!!
Pili Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 11:20 am
@Forum Gold, Recording it might be the only option. I don’t think they replay it. FSW or Prime Ticket has it on right after the game.
Duncanz Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 10:59 am
@Sick of Hayward, Cool name. Who were you before … @Tiredofit?
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King-C Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 10:36 am
@Jgomez, They should be dressed in blue dresses and given yellow pom poms! listening to those two goats makes my ears vomit!
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Maury Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 10:38 am
@Jgomez, I agree! Totally biased. In the 3rd they were almost rooting for the Blues to make a comeback.
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Zeley Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 10:48 am
@Jgomez,
To really understand how bad the broadcast was last night, you have to hear the comments of a devot non-fan. My wife hates hockey – the only sport she literally cannot stand – and even she picked up on the disparity without any input from me. At one point she asked if there would be pro-Kings announcers when the series returns to Los Angeles.
All I could do is hang my head and hold back the rage.
The funny thing, though, is that there was a side benefit. She actually paid attention to the game and asked questions. There may be hope yet.
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RobSD Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 12:14 pm
@Zeley,
I can’t stand listening to them, but I don’t mind that much…. because they all have to eat sheet as we keep winning. Barry Melrose has been the only one consistently saying that the Kings are the real deal. I hope we roll over them in 4 or 5 tops. It will be tough, but we can do it.
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UHHH,That’s 2 losses Mr Hitchcock
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Wow. The Kings really made a statement last night. The Blues (and everyone else, I would hope) finally realize that they are not the annointed ones the media would like them to be. However, this makes them that much more dangerous. The Kings need to be ready for an all-out assault, and I suspect Sutter will have them ready. I am dearly hoping the Kings will respond the way they should and grind out a Kings victory (1-0 or 2-1) and show the Blues that they can play it however they want and they’ll still come up short.
The first period last night was AWESOME!
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Jack Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 10:07 am
@Minnesota Kings Fan, a 1-0 victory for the Kings will fold the Blues.
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Minnesota Kings Fan Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 10:13 am
@Jack,
I agree 100%!
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like last series with sedin, pietroangelo will be back on thursday which will change the make up of the game some. we need to be ready and unlike with sedin, put some hits on him while not losing sight of the prize . . . win #3
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“Quick is a great goaltender, but you can score goals on him. Honest! We’ve seen it! I swear!”
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Thegreatone Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 12:34 pm
@What’s the frequency, Kenneth?,
Yeah, the Blues have scored a total of 6 goals in 6 games against Quick this year. Obviously they aren’t watching tapes of themselves.
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Rich:
If the Kings win this round, will they get guys on the broadcast team for NBC?
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Tweeners Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 10:06 am
@BakoCAkingsCondorsGuy, LOL
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Rich Hammond Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 10:12 am
I’d be shocked if NBC added any broadcasters. NBC has a “roster” of broadcasters under contract to do national games. I’m guessing Emrick/Olczyk will do one conference-final series and Strader/Engblom will do the other.
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BakoCAkingsCondorsGuy Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 10:15 am
@Rich Hammond,
It seems so unfair…
The season ends with Sharks broadcasters homing out in the two losses.
Then, we get Vancouverism, at its worst…
Now, it’s always, ‘When is St. Louis going to score?’
Unfair.
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Paul Armbruster (KingsNewsDaily.com) Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 10:25 am
@BakoCAkingsCondorsGuy,
I’ll happily take broadcasters hyping up the other team in every single game because it means the Kings are winning. As soon as the Kings are down 0-4 in a game, then you’ll hear all sorts of wonderful hype.
But yeah, it would be nice to hear better balance and I guess that’s the difference between local and national NHL coverage.
I had a far bigger problem with the video coverage. It was amateur hour on NBC. Cutting off in mid-sentence to go to commercial, terrible replays and analysis. Hell, some replays were totally skipped. Really bad broadcast all around.
But again, if it means the Kings are winning, then so be it.
BakoCAkingsCondorsGuy Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 10:26 am
@Rich Hammond,
You need to go National…
NBC needs to interview you during the next few games.
You’ve gotta get on the air!
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Rich Hammond Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 10:28 am
Ha…not ready for prime time…
BakoCAkingsCondorsGuy Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 10:30 am
@Rich Hammond,
‘Dems Bullpaddies, Bro!
DesertKing Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 10:35 am
@Rich Hammond
“Prime time! Prime time! Prime time!” heck, it worked for Deion Sanders, and you are way better than him.
Tweeners Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 10:28 am
@Rich Hammond, I woke up this morning STILL upset about the horrible announcing. However, I will gladly sit through those pathetic comments all day, so long as the Kings continue to roll!!
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brian spain Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 10:38 am
@Rich Hammond, Emrick and Eddie O will do the east and the Finals. They are the # 1 team for the NBC morons.
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KC23 Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 12:40 pm
@Rich Hammond, You are absolutely ready for prime time, you just don’t realise it yet.
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To me, it really seems like Hitch has no idea of how to beat the Kings. The Blues absolutely dominated the first 10 min of Game 1, then the Kings took over after weathering the storm. His choice to switch his top two centers absolutely “Blue” up in his face. The Kings are too big, strong, and skilled for the young Blues.
St. Loius has to play an extremely controlled game to win on Thursday. I expect a 2-0 or 3-1 win for the Kings – with low scoring, tight checking, and few penalties.
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PRMan Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 11:31 am
@Michael J., The problem is that we play his game better than them. We have bigger forwards to grind to the front of the net. We have better shutdown defensemen in Mitchell, Scuderi and the underrated Greene. And we have a better goalie.
They don’t have the talent to play an uptempo game (although the moron announcers somehow thought it would be in their favor last night).
We are a terrible matchup problem for the Blues, which is why I was hoping we got them in the 1st Round.
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toemas_sandstrom Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 12:03 pm
@PRMan, We keep this play up and we’ll be a terrible match up for anyone we play!
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Kenny44 Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 12:34 pm
@PRMan, I heard Hayward say that too – the Blues only chance against the Kings is to open it up. Bring it on! Maybe the score would’ve been 12-4 if they had. I think Hayward is stuck in time a few years ago when the Ducks could do that to the Kings.
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Rich, I know it has been beaten to death but is there any noise about the biased telecast on the part of NBC. I don’t mind a neutral call, bur screaming “He Scores” for the Blues and kind of hinting that the Kings scored is really annoying for a fan of 20+ years who has been waiting for the Kings to make it past the 1st round. The conflict of interest of having the Kings cross town rival Brian Hayward on the telecast even makes it worse. From the coverage last night you would think the Blues played a good game and the Kings just got lucky 5 times!!!
I had to watch ESPN, the NHL Network and Kings Live to calm down.
Someone needs to tell NBC that the viewing experience should be the same for both fans. Heck this isn’t even Detroit or the Canucks.
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Tweeners Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 10:07 am
@IceMonkey77, Well said….
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Jack Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 10:09 am
@IceMonkey77, I just wonder why they choose these anouncers? they are probably the cheapest ones. you get what you pay for. I dont think NBC cares really.
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Jeff Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 10:31 am
@IceMonkey77, That was the worst announcing EVER!! If I have to endure that again, I’ll either turn the sound off, or pipe in the radio feed.
I love how Hayward kept going on and on and on and on and on and on and on about how St. Louis was handling the latter part of the game “perfectly” and “this is exactly how they need to approach the game”. I guess he’s right though, they did everything right with the exception of being dominated by the Kings.
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Forum Gold Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 10:41 am
@Jeff, Scoreboard Hayward. GO KINGS GO!!!
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brian spain Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 10:42 am
@Jeff, Jeff It was sweet when Hayward said that about the Blues moving up the ice and Kopi steals the puck a second later and almost scores for a hat trick. Hayward is a lucky man to have this gig. He is awful. He should be fored for saying Doughty dipped his shoulder to take a high stick.
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I think the Kings are going to see a huge pushback from St. Louis in Game 3. I hope the Kings are ready for it.
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This has probably been said but how the heck did NBC decide to put that tool Hayward on this series? He’s a joke.
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Rich Hammond Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 10:13 am
Hayward came in because Engblom had a laryngitis scare.
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Minnesota Kings Fan Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 10:17 am
@Rich Hammond,
..with Jim Fox already there, in the building! Slap in the face? Contract issues? It makes no sense.
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Rich Hammond Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 10:20 am
Jim isn’t under contract with NBC.
DesertKing Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 10:17 am
@Rich Hammond,
Didn’t Engblom formerly have Darryl Evans job as the radio color commentator?
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Rich Hammond Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 10:21 am
Yes, indeed. Early 90s.
brian spain Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 10:44 am
@DesertKing, When Engblom was with the Kings radio he could barely speak, he had a lisp that was send shivers down your spine. Darryl Evans is the best color guy with Nick ever. They have had a couple guys who had speech problems and Tammy Granato who didn’t work out at all.
vplaza Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 10:45 am
@DesertKing,
I thought he was good and Daryl Evans is also good, maybe even better now after a number of years on the job. I remember that Daryl was a little shaky in the beginning.
PRMan Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 11:34 am
@DesertKing, “and Tammy Granato who didn’t work out at all.”
“So, how did winning the game tonight make you feel?”
“What about when you were down 2-1 at the end of the first, how did you feel?”
“When you tore your ACL in the third period, how did you feel?”
Uggh! Please don’t bring up that era.
Darrell Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 11:55 am
@DesertKing, Guys, it’s Cammi Granato, aka the best female US hockey player ever aka Mrs. Ray Ferraro.
BigMikeonD Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 10:21 am
@Rich Hammond, I must of missed that. I hope Engblom is back soon. I like that guy a lot. Thanks Rich.
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Jeff_R Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 11:08 am
@Rich Hammond, Yea I noticed Engblom had voice problems the other night.
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Love that shot from the back of the net with Kopitar in mid-air and steering the puck into the net. Very Orr-like. If that goal happens in the finals that shot becomes iconic.
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Duncanz Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 11:05 am
@Bill M., Yeah, Bill M! What about Bob?
Seriously tho’, agreed, that pose ought to be struck in brass and placed in a prominent position around LA Live or Lubjiana or anywhere!
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Reference the NBC covergae, Mike Keenan was awesome. He hasn’t changed since he left coaching.
Reference the Blues making a statement, yep, they sure did. They stated “our personal pride is more important than a team victory.” I hope that they continue totry and make that staement in every game. They played like a bunch of indiviuals while the Kings played like a team.
I have a feeling the Blues will bring a different game Thursday night, but you know what, we can beat them at whatever game they bring. Elliot is shattered. Hitchcock is clueless. Backes is pissed. Oshie is out of control. Cron”been” is broken. They are not out of it yet, but if the Kings play the same type of game they played against VanHoover (tight, disciplined, under control), then we will take this series.
GKG!!!
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PRMan Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 11:35 am
@DesertKing, I agree. I loved Keenan’s response to the question, “Did this period surprise you?”
“Nope.”
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Hitchcock kinda looks like Benny Hill. His team ran around the ice like the skits in that show too.
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Mars Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 10:28 am
@vplaza, Hitchcock looked very pissed after that first goal. I am surprissed they did not come out more composed after the first. We will surely see a different Blues next game. Good think I have 100% confidence Sutter will have our guys ready. Love the park and ride, he has them ready every game now.
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DesertKing Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 10:37 am
@vplaza,
LOL. Someone needs to do a speeded up video of the idot Blues scrambling arond and use the Benny Hill theme music as the soundtrack.
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Michael J. Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 10:49 am
@DesertKing,
This is the closest ting I can find for you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hw8RfC1Ifo
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We expected push back last night as well, but we handled it..I think the Blues will be more composed and try to skate…But we can handle anything they throw at us, so it wont matter.
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Hey Rich, kings practicing today? Would like to go check out the atmosphere! Thanks
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Rich Hammond Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 10:28 am
Meeting at the rink at 1 p.m. Highly doubtful they will go on the ice.
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MichaeL_DD8 Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 10:30 am
@Rich Hammond,
Gotcha! Thanks again.
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View from St Louis
I don’t know what I loved more
Brian Elliot laying face down while Carlo Colalacovo stared at the ceiling in that picture
Or one of St Louis fans saying
Brian Elliot just turned into Brian Elliot
What a great time to be a kings fan !!
My kids can’t believe the joy I’m getting from all of this
Go Kings Go !!!!!!
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Can anyone explain how Oshie (0G 0A -2) was the 3rd star last night other than the game was played in STL? If the STL media wanted to plug in a Blues player, at least put in Backes.
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BakoCAkingsCondorsGuy Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 10:34 am
@Scott,
Agree about Backes…
He’s the guy I fear the most in Gm. 3.
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LUCALACA Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 10:36 am
@Scott, 1 big hit hahahahahahahahaha
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Mars Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 11:34 am
@Scott, NHL and Toronto.. What more needs to be said.
Oh and the officiating… Worst yet.
The announcers… Even worse.
They REALLY hate us.
Time to oust buttman and crew.
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favorite quote: “We’ve seen people score goals on him”
it’s like spotting Big Foot or trying to prove the existence of a black hole… “we haven’t done it ourselves but we know it’s technically possible to score on him…”
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BakoCAkingsCondorsGuy Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 10:36 am
@Shakes,
I loved it when they called Quick ‘The Crab’ because he plays so low to the ice…
Fits his style…
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DesertKing Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 10:39 am
@BakoCAkingsCondorsGuy,
He is now known as “De Craw.” Not “Da Craw”, “De Craw.”
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“Quick is a great goaltender, but you can score goals on him. We’ve seen people score goals on him. We have in the past.” – TJ Oshie
Someone should tell Oshie that thay haven’t scored on him very much AT ALL! 4 goals in 6 games is not something to brag about!
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KC23 Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 12:46 pm
@Booga01, Oshie said “but you can score goals on him, we seen people score goals on him” like an 10 year old kid trying to convience his parents that he say a flying saucer.
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KC23 Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 12:47 pm
@KC23, saw*
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they*
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I think its safe to say no one was happy with NBC lol..
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DesertKing Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 10:45 am
@pr0cess,
“Nothing But Crap”
“Naturally Belittling Commentary”
“Nose Bleeds Continually”
“No Brains Contracted”
“Noticeably Brainwashed Commentators”
“Not Baseball Certified”
“Naked But Composed”
“Nothing But Counting”
“Natural Bu++ Clenchers”
Yep, I love NBC.
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FKA PakiFro Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 10:59 am
@DesertKing,
No Blues Comeback
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DesertKing Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 11:11 am
@FKA PakiFro,
Best one yet!
Kenny44 Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 12:43 pm
@DesertKing, Not even their most famous CEO is in love with NBC:
“For the first time in six months we beat all the Music Choice channels except of course, Latin Beats.”
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Paul Armbruster (KingsNewsDaily.com) Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 10:53 am
@pr0cess,
I’m surprised no one has mentioned how bad the production was, let alone the broadcasting. I actually have a far bigger problem with that. They missed entire replays of critical action. They cut to commercial in mid sentence. It was really bad and not professional. Did anyone else catch the broadcast team totally miss that Blues penalty? It took them about 30 seconds to figure out the Kings were on the PP. Just bad coverage all around.
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Jeff_R Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 11:12 am
@Paul Armbruster (KingsNewsDaily.com), I wonder if that was because it was on CNBC and not NBC Sports. I have noticed it more with the games on CNBC. Wonder if they have different crews for each channel they show the games on? The next 2 games will be on NBC Sports and NBC for those that can’t be at Staples, so it should be much better.
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RoyalPain Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 11:26 am
@Paul Armbruster (KingsNewsDaily.com),
Yeah, they showed the two Blues players in the box as the announcers told us it was still 5-on-5.
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Paul Armbruster (KingsNewsDaily.com) Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 11:50 am
@RoyalPain, I couldn’t believe that. Terrible. Bordering on incompetent.
goes to eleven Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 12:13 pm
@Paul Armbruster (KingsNewsDaily.com), I just about lost it when Brown was in the box trying to figure out how he was penalized. No help from NBC.
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RobSD Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 12:35 pm
@goes to eleven,
That was the worst call of the night. Brown was penalized for interfering with the Blues players fist moving through the air.
KC23 Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 12:48 pm
@goes to eleven, That and Stoll’s penilty were pity penilties.
I’m really surprised at how little emphasis has been placed on Sutter’s coaching in the media. He has out-coached Vigneault and Hitchcock cleanly inside their own house, yet they constantly print useless quotes from the two, supposedly best coaches?
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KC23 Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 12:49 pm
@Jorgen, DS treats the national, canadian and other team’s media like crap so don’t expect any love to DS from them.
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Wow, this guy has no clue about King and the Kings in general:
“Look, I didn’t expect the Blues to be happy over losing the important, all-purpose Pietrangelo to a cheap-shot dirty trick by Kings winger Dwight King in Game 1.”
“The NHL is in a state of Malice in Wonderland, where logic and common sense are forbidden. A place where up is down and down is up. Dime-a-dozen predators are, for the most part, given free run to injure the skill players. The youngest, best and brightest of this league are prey for lunkheads, loons and low-rent hit men. Pietrangelo is the latest victim.”
King a lunkhead, loon and low-rent hit-man?
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KC23 Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 12:51 pm
@vplaza, How about that line saying King was the King’s thug. That just cracked me up.
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KingsFanatic08 Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 3:32 pm
@vplaza, I replied and thought the same thing. That fool was never checked, King gave him a push and dove, like a master diver, and injured himself in the process. That or he was hoping for some fire in his team and if backfired and now is trying to save face. haha
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Kopi’s shot is front page NHL.com, also kopi and brown in top 3 stars for the night.
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KC23 Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 12:52 pm
@pr0cess, Yep, Kopitar #1 and Brown #2 … the great 8 3rd.
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Does anyone know if an 8th seed has beat the #1, #2, and #3 seeds in their conference to reach the Stanley Cup Finals? It could happen this year.
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Paul Armbruster (KingsNewsDaily.com) Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 10:56 am
@Lvhatrick,
Only one 8th seed has made it to the finals and they beat #1 #5 and #6 to get there.
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Bill M. Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 11:12 am
@Lvhatrick, “The only 8th place team to ever make it to the finals were the 2005-06 Edmonton Oilers but they lost in 7 games to the Carolina Hurricanes.”
A little research turns up that the 05-06 Oilers beat the presidents trophy red wings, but a fantastic, only happened once phenomenon (all higher seeds in the west lost the first round), the oilers played the fifth place sharks in the second round. so no. it’s never happened. The Kings even making the finals looks like it would end up being pretty historic, and winning the cup even more so.
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“The Kings are the real sharks — circling the Blues, menacing and threatening, and aroused by the smell of blood in the water. The Blues couldn’t save Pietrangelo, but they’d better do everything in their power to save themselves.”
“The problem is two-fold. Even if the Blues respond to the predicament with the necessary emotion, it doesn’t mean they’ll be able to overcome the Kings. The Blues have to do something to immediately reverse the momentum. I wouldn’t give up on the Blues just yet, but the creeping reality is discouraging.”
This time it took 2 games to have the sports analysts give up on their team. Last series it took 3. Hopefully next series it will take 1.
I just don’t see how a team can come back from that awful of a game. The hope in the fact that the barrage ended in the second period, is really pathetic. Don’t they know that the Kings stopped playing offense once we were up 5-1?
The best evidence is that when Blues tries to mount a comeback on the 2nd period goal, the Kings answered immediately. To end all hope. It seemed like Kings played prevent-defense from that point forward, which is definitely the right move.
Saddest of all, the Blues couldn’t even muster up the strength to play well on the PP. Barely got anything on a 1.30 5-on-3!
This team is cooked.
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Look lets all stay focused here, The team is not looking ahead and we should do the same, the blues can easily come back here. We have a big tendency to not play the best at home. Lets please give them the respect they are due. Or at the very least lets not jynx the team please…
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Forum Gold Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 11:02 am
@pr0cess, Especially considering we have a Noon start on Sunday. GO KINGS GO!!!
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KC23 Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 12:56 pm
@pr0cess, Don’t believe in any of that jynx sillyness. Blues are not going to beat Quick 4 out of the next 5 games. No way no how.
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For the record, Dusin Penner’s twitter account is hilarious. His self depricating humor is hilarious. His tweet regarding his hit from #74 TJ Oshie basically said “did anyone catch the license plate of that truck… i think it starts with a 7″ (non-twitter sentence structure added). Pretty funny. Also he labeled pancakes amongst his interests.
I hope the crowd at Staples is chanting his name in Game 3
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BakoCAkingsCondorsGuy Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 11:09 am
@Shakes,
Nothing like a great post-season to resurrect your career…
Pancakes: Make it so!
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DesertKing Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 11:13 am
@Shakes,
I will be cheering him!
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Duncanz Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 11:19 am
@Shakes,
I almost fell off my chair last night after the game when he numbered HIMSELF among the legion of TJ Oshie fans!!!!
Not only priceless, he is peerless!!
Whenever Pancakes is on deck by the interview diamond, you are just waiting for the call,
“Batter up!”
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KC23 Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 12:57 pm
@Shakes, Outside of Quick, Penner has been the best player in the series so far imho.
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Shakes Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 1:12 pm
@KC23, well to be fair that Brown and Kopitar chap have been pretty alright. Also Doughty is an interseting sort b/c they didn’t mention his name once…which means i think as a defender he’s doing an incredible job while logging 25+ minutes on the ice
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Buried in Jeff Gordon’s column was a segment called “What Others Are Writing” that references Pierre LaBrun of ESPN.com:
“Darryl Sutter’s squad has the look of a team that is planning to play into June. There are no passengers on this club right now. Every player on this team finishes checks, blocks shots, and pays the price to get into the hard areas of the ice. No. 8 seeds? Puh-lease. Talk about false advertising. These guys should have won the Pacific Division … The one-two punch at center of Anze Kopitar and (Mike) Richards is proving unrelenting in its offensive pressure, yet at the same time stellar for its defensive prowess. It’s 200 feet of pure domination for the top two lines of the Kings.”
Wow. Did someone here grease his palms to get praise like that?
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HITCHCOCK: ” … but we need [Pietrangelo] back in the lineup if we’re going to … Our job, right now, is to come back to our fans.”
Only a word away from a stunning concession there, it sounds like?
As I said earlier, lovely day for a funeral …
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I love how the Blues fans are complaining about an obvious offside non-call on Carters goal. What a bunch of sissies. There were several times the Kings were called Offside when they were on. That’s part of the game. It goes both ways, just like…(fill in your comment here).
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KC23 Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 12:58 pm
@duderonomy, yeah, like that goal was the difference in the game. HAhahahhaaaa
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This sounds like it could be used to sync the NBCSports video to the online radio feed: http://www.dar.fm/faq.php#faq19
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you people should be celebrating the best Kings run in a decade, but yet here we are, are complaining about a couple of announcers.
Nice.
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Kenny44 Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 12:46 pm
Sounds familiar, @SDGolfer,
“You people should be enjoying your amazing view of the course here at Torrey Pines, but yet here we are, aruging over whether it was my ball that smashed your window.”
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Shakes Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 1:14 pm
@SDGolfer,
we debate therefore we are. our complaints are based on the fact that our team isn’t getting the same recognition and credit that other teams are
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KingsFanatic08 Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 3:29 pm
@Shakes, +1 EXACTLY!
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Why is the St. Louis Blues are doing a Bridal fight against the kings and why is the Blues taking Anze’s helmet off from the last game and break Anze’s hair from the head was a Illegal do you remember the rules about if the blues is going after Anze the Ref’s should say about that does not make since that means the Blues players should be Suspended from the call from taking Anze’s helmet off so what do you think
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Duncanz Reply:
May 2nd, 2012 at 11:39 am
@Adam M,
Sir. The Blues are indeed Bridezillas, but you have to be tolerant of them because they are going through a tough time.
So you just say, no, you look fine in that dress dear. It enhances your aft regions.
Then you get them flowers and then you leave and visit the bridesmaid who might be the Coyotes and you might end up with the Sharks on Cheaters … but this is just how reality TV works.
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I find it annoying that the Post-Dispatch guy keeps on referring to King’s hit as “cheap and dirty”.
It just wasn’t.
I can’t imagine and LA writer (Rich, or Helene, etc..) to ever report like that.
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What a dif. a couple of weeks makes…seems like yesterday we were all cryin the blue about ” no one can score,PP sucks, might not make the playoffs” but now we are kickin ass and takin names…..we could go all the way…..wow
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KingsFanatic08 Reply:
May 1st, 2012 at 3:27 pm
@Gross Misconduct,
LOL that is exactly right and I was one of those crying about it. Now I can’t believe the way they are playing. Reminds me of the ’93 team.
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“Look, I didn’t expect the Blues to be happy over losing the important, all-purpose Pietrangelo to a cheap-shot dirty trick by Kings winger Dwight King in Game 1. I don’t expect the Blues and their fans to be pleased by the inaction of the NHL, which gave King a free pass.”
“The NHL is in a state of Malice in Wonderland, where logic and common sense are forbidden. A place where up is down and down is up. Dime-a-dozen predators are, for the most part, given free run to injure the skill players. The youngest, best and brightest of this league are prey for lunkheads, loons and low-rent hit men. Pietrangelo is the latest victim.”
“Let’s acknowledge that the Kings are very good. You don’t have to like them or their grumpy coach, but LA is clicking beautifully on all fronts. The Kings are 6-1 this postseason and have won all five of their road games, going into Vancouver and St. Louis to outscore the home team 18-8.”
–St. Louis Today
WA WA WA amazing crying by the Blues media. To compare King with the likes of say Torres is insane. King never checked him at all. A cheap-shot dirty trick? He simply gave him a push and he dove like a master diver and in the process injured himself (which is insanely hilarious), but to include King in that mess is idiotic. And to call DS a grumpy coach? LOL. Give me a break. Can’t wait to hear all the excuses once we eliminate them.
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