On his thoughts of the game:
“Score more than one goal.”
On what it will take to score more than one goal:
“Score two.”
On Mike Richards’ selection in the shootout:
“He’s capable of big plays, and he’s a good shootout guy. I’ve seen it before.”
On limiting Nashville to 11 shots in regulation:
“They’re strong up the middle, they’ve got the veterans on the back end, they’ve got a good goalie. They don’t give much, and you have to try and counter that. And you have to bear down on your opportunities. The ones you get, you don’t get too many of against them.”
“It just comes down to details, right? You know what, they scored a faceoff goal. Other than that, they probably only had three or four opportunities to score. We probably had 10. It just comes down to we’re still not getting that goal…that we need to count on to score that goal.”
On whether he’s happy with Jeff Carter’s involvement and participation:
“Yeah. He’s been pretty good.”
On the heavy road schedule in February:
“You know, I really don’t look at it as a month thing, because really we only played 11 days in January. So I don’t look at it as a month thing. Break it into home – road, three in four and back to backs, all those sorts of things. So I don’t really look too far ahead. We’ll deal with Saturday, and then we’ve got to go east through three time zones.”
On whether he prepares any different for road games than he does for home games:
“I don’t stay in a hotel. I don’t prepare any different.”
horribly made up manican head says: “get it together kings, my lipstick missed my mouth and you shot wide”
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Duncanz Reply:
February 1st, 2013 at 1:16 am
@jest, Wow, I think my parental control function prevents my TV from showing that channel – fortunately.
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Night all
Tomorrow is another day and a another new start
Go Kings Go!
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Why this coach hesitates to put the “Flyer West-Line” together is beyond me. It kick started the PP last game and in the FINAL minute of this game seem to have real good scoring chances. Please coach, put Gagne, Richards, and Carter on the same line!!!
I know Cliffy’s been working hard, but I think Gagne can light up the lamp more given more opportunities, especially now that our PP/Offense is once again struggling.
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luc20rules Reply:
February 1st, 2013 at 12:36 am
@rogiesbackup, Once again. Please tell me of this time in which it was clicking.
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Duncanz Reply:
February 1st, 2013 at 1:19 am
@luc20rules, I seem to remember a brief but beautiful time a couple of post-seasons ago ….
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Jamison couldn’t complete the purchase of the Phx Yotes by the lease deadline.
He said “We will not be able to complete our purchase of the Phoenix Coyotes today in time to meet our deadline with the city of Glendale. However, our journey to purchase the Coyotes will continue.
A day late and a dollar short much like the Yote Players on the ice.”
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Duncanz Reply:
February 1st, 2013 at 1:21 am
@luc20rules, He actually said that last sentence?
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luc20rules Reply:
February 1st, 2013 at 6:15 pm
@Duncanz, I was wondering if anyone was going to ask that. LOL
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Its not time to panic. The Kings aren’t clicking on offense right now. At somepoint very soon it will and the team will go on a nice 8-2-2 type run. What will determine the season is whether the Kings can collect 50% of standing points when they aren’t hot. I believe they will go on 2 streaks this year where they collect 75% of available points for about 8 to 15 games each. Which should be enough to make the playoffs easily, but unlikely enough to catch SJ. If we are healthy and in the playoffs I like our chances.
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On the bright side we are on a 4 game unbeaten in Regulation Streak. If that stretches into like 10+ games I think we are in good shape.
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Hello @luc20rules, bye bye Tweety Birdwatcher (@Jeff_R)!
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If he doesn’t stay in a hotel on the road, where does he stay?
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