-Jonathan Bernier recorded his first appearance in a game since Saturday, March 31, a 4-3 shootout loss to Minnesota. His last win came on Saturday, March 17, a 4-2 win versus Nashville.
-Bernier has entered a game in relief seven times in his career, posting a 3.21 GAA (243 minutes / 13 goals against) and an .874 Sv% (103 SA / 90 Sv)
-The last time Jonathan Quick was pulled in a game was on Saturday, December 17, 2011, an 8-2 loss at Detroit, when he allowed three goals on seven shots in nine minutes.
-The Kings have power play goals in three straight games, including four total over that span (3x Brown, Carter).
-Saturday’s game ended a streak of 10 consecutive LA-Anaheim games decided by one or two goals. The last Kings-Ducks game decided by at least a three-goal margin was a 4-1 Kings win at Staples Center on Sunday, December 26, 2010.
-This equaled the highest scoring game between Los Angeles and Anaheim in the 109-game series history. The two clubs have combined for 11 goals on two previous occasions – Friday, November 8, 1996, a 7-4 Ducks victory, and Wednesday, January 22, 2003, a 6-5 Ducks victory. In addition, Anaheim’s seven goals equaled the club’s highest goal output against Los Angeles in club history (also November 8, 1996).
-The Kings are 50-40-11-8 (W-L-T-OTL) against the Ducks since the rivalry began in 1993-94.
Kings need some veteran presence back to get this going!
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4tee Reply:
February 3rd, 2013 at 7:09 am
@tornado12,
I think even Drewiske is begging for Mitchell to come back at this point.
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Hey Jon,
Just wanted to say congratulations on the Insider gig. It seemed like a natural fit for you and I’m looking forward to reading this blog again on a regular basis.
Bad loss for the Kings tonight. They seemed like they couldn’t get the defensive side going tonight. Muzzin had a rough night as did some of the others. I hope Whiskey’s okay after taking that shot/pass off the beak. The team really missed Mitchell and Greene tonight. Quick and Bernie gave up some softies too.
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Any word on if there is a practice scheduled tomorrow?
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pr0cess Reply:
February 2nd, 2013 at 11:54 pm
@LomitaKingsFan, After Pancakes
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LomitaKingsFan Reply:
February 3rd, 2013 at 12:05 am
@pr0cess, I’ll pass on pancakes. Looks all soft and doughy lately.
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Wow, first NHL action in 10 + months for JB.
Unenviable.
Also pretty impressive JQ hasn’t been pulled in so many starts.
Could be a connection..
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TiredOfIt Reply:
February 3rd, 2013 at 1:10 am
@Duncanz, I don’t know why there always has to be a conspiracy. Somebody should be wondering how much plaster is going to be needed to repair the wall JQ smashed in after he got yanked. Saw it from my seat. Golden Axe has nothing on Quicker
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Kings Fan In Temecula Reply:
February 3rd, 2013 at 3:25 am
@TiredOfIt, haha wow
i think i’d be pissed too
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No quotes from Sutter tonight? Woulda liked to be a fly on the wall in the Kings dressing room after that one…
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Kings Fan In Temecula Reply:
February 3rd, 2013 at 3:26 am
@Goring 19, i’m ballistic on them cuz i sure did, that game was bizzare
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Kings Fan In Temecula Reply:
February 3rd, 2013 at 3:28 am
@Kings Fan In Temecula, *I’m pretty sure he went ballistic on them cuz i sure did*
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Duncanz Reply:
February 3rd, 2013 at 3:49 am
@Goring 19, Fair enough, we’d better pick up that slack a little.
February 2 postgame quips: Darryl Sutter Esq(ue)
On his thoughts of the game:
“Don’t give up 7 goals.”
On what it will take to win when your opponent nevertheless scores 7 goals:
“Score 8.”
On Simon Gagne’s play:
“He was in North America.”
On Dustin Penner’s play:
“I’m not even sure if he was in the hemisphere.”
On actually outshooting Anaheim 34-25:
“We outshot them by nine in the 2nd period. The other two periods were even, so if that’s outshooting them, it’s not. For two periods we were dead even so obviously we didn’t outshoot them in those periods.”
On having to pull Jonathan Quick before 3/4 of Ducks fans had dawdled across Katella St from JT Schmid’s:
“I’ve been in that place. The food’s lousy and the company isn’t so good.”
On whether it wasn’t kind of early to have to make a change:
“Well, if you look at it we really didn’t change anything. The guy that came out had pads and a goalie stick and a helmet and the guy that went in there had all that stuff too, so if you look at it like that nothing changed. Bill (Ranford, reluctant Kings’ goaltending coach) asked me if we should make a change. I said no, just send in the other guy with the same gear, so it was the same, nothing changed.”
On (Jonathan) Quick’s (Kings starting goaltender) reaction to the switch:
“He didn’t have a choice in the matter.”
On whether he would have made the switch if he had a crystal ball:
“You can look at these things from the standpoint of, if I was in there and I was batting .333 what would I expect to happen? That’s not bad actually but this aint baseball. So if my coach is smart and knows what he’s doing I’m probly gonna get pulled. Then the next guy comes in and his ratio is a helluva lot better, it says so on the scoreclock. So it’s the right change, there’s nothing different. You make the switch and the ratios get much better and so the coaches made the right decision. I never saw Ranford again after that, though.”
On certain ‘Insider’ (Thx @TiredOfIt) reports that a good deal of plaster was stripped from the walls under the stands by a certain goaltender’s stick after a certain goaltender’s departure:
“The place needed a renovation. It’s nearly 20 years old.”
On the upcoming schedule that appears about as straightforward as the Bataan Death March:
“We got I think four games on the road, if you don’t count this one and at different times last year we won more than four road games, so there’s nothing to show one way or another how you’re going to do. You could do ok or you could do something else. It depends on the results. If you look at tonight, four clubs won on the road so you look at that and it can be done. It’s just that one if them wasn’t us but it’s no different, they’re still road games. Teams beat us on the road a lot so it shows you it can be done and it is. Simple math, right?”
On the comparison between livestock farming in Alberta (Canada) during the (NHL) lockout and returning to Los Angeles (CA) for the hockey season:
“We had a couple of heffers die on us up there and we didn’t find them until a couple of days later. Those animals didn’t stink half as bad as some of the carcases you see out there (on the ice – presumably) at the moment. I can deal with that sort of thing up there ‘cos I’m used to it.”
On what you’ll tell the team (after the postgame interview) back in the locker room:
“You’re not getting that on your little tape machine. Wait, that’s one of them cellphone things, right? Who’re you connected with right now with that thing … ?”
[Media contingent files sheepishly out of interview room. Interview ends.]
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Neil Reply:
February 3rd, 2013 at 9:11 am
@Duncanz, you nailed it !!!
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Goring 19 Reply:
February 3rd, 2013 at 11:00 am
@Duncanz, a man of few words…
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puck73 Reply:
February 3rd, 2013 at 11:13 am
@Duncanz, Maybe you should get together with @Variable and write a book or something, Way too much material to write down on a post. Have a take, make your point, and get out.
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neil Reply:
February 3rd, 2013 at 12:09 pm
@puck73, and dont suck !!!
Duncanz Reply:
February 3rd, 2013 at 1:50 pm
@purge73, Dude, you didn’t read it, did you?
But you and @neil are right.
I should have made provisions for your ‘Romemanian’ ADD and highlighted the salient points.
Brown said it best…We got our asses kicked!
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Somebody get the boys something for their hangover…it’s a bad one!
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Right now I’m more worried about Drewiski’s face than anything else. Any updates on that?
His face looked a mess, even though he came back and played his heart out.
Other blatant things I noticed:
Without Mitchell and Greene this team PK is just as bad as the PP ever was.
Quick got pulled too early. And the change did not work.
Bernier is still little more than a backup goalie.
Neither Penner nor Gagne showed much of anything last night. Yeah, SG had two assists which were nothing more than two basic passes. The credit goes to Stoll and Brown for those goals. Once again, SG coughed up a good number of pucks along the boards whenever any duck was nearby.
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Even though there’s tons of talent on this team it’s rare that we put more than a goal or two on the board. This team is made for playing solid d and having great goaltending and working hard to get anything on offense. With Mitchell and Greene hurt we have to put out that worthless 3rd d pairing of muzzin and drewiske and we’re going to suffer because of it. Our fourth line got dominated in this game and this team isn’t going to survive in high scoring games. It’s early on in the season but this team is in trouble.
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IMO…no Mitchell, no playoffs. Nobody scores on us around the net when he’s in there. If he can’t play. DL better look for someone close to his caliber, ship out gagne or penner n whoever n bring up hungry lokti, toffolli et. al. And if Duncanz wants to write lengthy analyses, go for it…u don’t have to read it if ya don’t want to.
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