On the team’s defensive efforts:
“We scored a power play goal, the penalty killing did a good job, and Quicker was pretty solid for us.”
On two good steps forward against Calgary by Quick:
“Yep. He was sharp in a lot of areas, so that’s good.”
On whether there’s a chance Quick plays against Phoenix on Tuesday:
“We’ll talk on the plane tonight [and] see.”
On the points not being the prettiest two points the team has earned:
“You know what? The schedule’s hard. You’ve got to find different ways to hang in there. It means you’re a good hockey team when you do that.”
On Alec Martinez getting beat on Calgary’s goal:
“Yeah, he did. He got beat clean, one-on-one. Don’t get beat one-on-one in the NHL.”
On the upcoming Pacific Division-heavy schedule:
“Funny, eh? We’ve got five…the next five games are Phoenix, San Jose.”
On the upcoming schedule:
“I guess we’ve got to play ‘em sometime. Get ‘em done in a hurry, right? We were talking about it before the game with the players – you know what? After tonight, it was like this was our game in hand on everybody. So we knew it was going to be tough. Guys are looking ahead a little bit, so we knew it was going to be tough. They did a good job.”
Given his Martinez comments, on whether a change to the lineup could be made:
“You know what? It’s just you can’t get beat one-on-one in the NHL. That is a fact.”
On being at the midway point of the season:
“We are. I don’t look at it like that, because…with the schedule, breaking it home road, trips, back-to-back. You’ve been doing this – this back-to-back with Calgary, so we really haven’t looked at it like that.”
On whether he’s pleased getting with going 4-1-0 on the homestand:
“Yeah, I mean it’s what I said. we’ve found different ways to win games, and that’s what you have to do. You know what? The schedule does win and lose games for teams, and you know what, we see that.”
On whether killing off the five-on-three was a major turning point:
“Well, they had one against us the other [night], actually, and they scored on the first part of the one, and we had to make a couple adjustments in there, quite honest, with our young defensemen. You still need a big save, but their keys are Cammy and Jarome obviously one-time the puicks. Mike scored on the one-timer down low, and that’s a hard play the other night. We had that covered tonight, and then Jarome has one-timers from the other side. We made a good adjustment. You know what? You still need your goaltender to be your best player five-on-three.”
I was hoping they would lay off Amart a bit. The kid has to be hurting.
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Mars Reply:
March 12th, 2013 at 12:18 am
@KC23, I was critical at first, but it was only one mistake, as learn as he learns from it we are golden.
Rough couple of weeks coming up. We shall prevail!!
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jet Reply:
March 12th, 2013 at 1:36 am
@KC23, Marty does not get lit up like that, ever. The boys need to get the puck up ice, so he does not have to play 2 munute shifts. I have been quick to point out errors by the new5 before, but this one was a dead leg issue.
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PRMan Reply:
March 12th, 2013 at 11:04 am
@jet, Agree. And yet he could have at least dragged him down. Better to take a penalty than to let a guy run past you and score like that.
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Watching the replay now. Brown almost whiffed on the PPG.
Those two should start him and Kopi rolling though.
Great confidence booster!!
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shiny Reply:
March 12th, 2013 at 12:27 am
@Mars, Did you see Carts on the first line? It was weird for me. Williams went on the second line briefly then the lines were sort of restored for a bit anyway.
I’m hoping the Kings come out with a big 2 points tomorrow night.
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brian spain Reply:
March 12th, 2013 at 8:09 am
@Mars, Mars if you watch closely, many times the shootor partially fans on the puck, then the puck sneaks in a hole somewhere, that was a really hard pass by Voynov, all Brown had to do was get his stick on it. The other night Carter almost pulled his shot from the Brown pass wide of the net and he had the whole six feet to shoot at and he was 3 feet in front center of the net. Crazy thing, round puck curved stick crazy things happen, like missing the net from so close.
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KC23 Reply:
March 12th, 2013 at 8:40 am
@brian spain, So true, just ask Penner.
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OMG. we are scoring more goals than King’s East
http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/stats/byteam?cat=teamstats&conference=NHL&year=season_2012&cut_type=0&sort=443
Imagine that. HAHAHAHAHA
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shiny Reply:
March 12th, 2013 at 12:28 am
@gcheng, Kings East BLOWS this season. They have a space case goalie and they apparently have very young guys on the team that aren’t quite clicking all at once. Kudos to the Kings WEST coach for getting his guys on the same page finally
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jet Reply:
March 12th, 2013 at 1:37 am
@shiny, they have no defence
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shiny Reply:
March 12th, 2013 at 12:28 am
@gcheng, Kings East BLOWS this season. They have a space case goalie and they apparently have very young guys on the team that aren’t quite clicking all at once. Kudos to the Kings WEST coach for getting his guys on the same page finally
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shiny Reply:
March 12th, 2013 at 12:30 am
@shiny, Sorry, I must be losing it. I thought I only hit the button once…
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Where is Duncanz? Anyway, good win tonight. On to Phoenix.
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shiny Reply:
March 12th, 2013 at 12:34 am
@Mikey J., Better question: Where is Phil? I think Dunx is still out partying with the other Insiders from the suite
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Jeff_R Reply:
March 12th, 2013 at 1:19 am
@shiny, Well he was with me and I left him around 10:30. I got home just after 12.
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Duncanz Reply:
March 12th, 2013 at 1:47 am
@Mikey J., ‘ello, ‘ello
@shinny, Was actually getting bashed around with Corsi & Fenwicks all the way home – not dully in any way though!
@TweetyBirdwatcher (Jeff_R) Clean your plate!! Forget Africa, there were hungry children in Staples!!
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Interesting statistic:
Corsi Percentage Leaders since ’07-08: ’13 LA – .597, ’08 DET: .587, ’10 CHI: .578, ’09 DET: .573, ’12 DET: .549, ’11 SJS: .535
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Always an interesting read.
http://www.sportsclubstats.com/NHL/Western/Pacific/LosAngeles.html
We have very little chance of catching the Ducks. I’d say we are looking at a 4th seed for the playoffs. Real crap shoot on who we would play first round. Probably the Wild or Blues. The 2nd round would likley be the Hawks or Ducks and the WCF the Ducks or some upstart surprise team.
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shiny Reply:
March 12th, 2013 at 12:51 am
@KC23, Interesting. It predicts the Coyotes won’t get to the SCF but it suggests there’s a good chance for the Kings to make it to the SCF. Wow. The rest of the stuff I can’t wrap my tired brain around but I don’t care. I think there’s a good chance Kings could actually repeat
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Jeff_R Reply:
March 12th, 2013 at 1:25 am
@KC23, I still think we can catch the Ducks. I do believe they will have a little losing streak soon and we do play them two more times. We already went through our losing streak. I do feel we will either winthe division or finish 4th if we don’t.
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Duncanz Reply:
March 12th, 2013 at 1:52 am
@TweetyBirdwatch_R, Was going to post exactly the same thing after reading above, but you said it for me.
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KC23 Reply:
March 12th, 2013 at 2:11 am
@Jeff_R, Odds are not good we will catch the Ducks. Way less than 50%.
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PRMan Reply:
March 12th, 2013 at 11:09 am
@KC23, If we lose 3-4 games the rest of the season, then we have a 50% chance of passing the Ducks. Very unlikely.
VenturedAway Reply:
March 12th, 2013 at 11:13 am
@KC23, The odds weren’t good for us to win the cup from the 8th spot either. Always have faith.
Who says we can’t catch Anaheim. We just have to beat them twice and we are right back in it for the division title.
Strong finish can do a lot
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Duncanz Reply:
March 12th, 2013 at 1:54 am
Damn, @Tweety, @Kings x had it first!
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KC23 Reply:
March 12th, 2013 at 2:21 am
@Kings x, We beat them twice and we are still 5 points out. Not very likely we’ll catch them.
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I get the sense that we’ll see some Whiskey tonight.
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I think this was Quick’s best game of the season, not even close. If he gets back near the form he had last year, this team will be very, very hard to beat now that they’ve figured out what that net thingy is for.
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“Funny, eh? We’ve got five…the next five games are Phoenix, San Jose.”
Just had a very interesting thought: That benefits the Kings. Playing teams back-to-back (to back) simulates a series, and gives the Kings a better chance to wear down the opponent. One way to look at it: It gives them a chance to play the opponent they just wore down, instead of someone else.
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Say “you know what” again Darryl!!
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dmoney Reply:
March 12th, 2013 at 12:17 pm
@iansez, You know what? You just have to do that in the NHL, right?
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I thin that Bernier will start Tonight Versus LaBarbera because we are doing a backup Goalie and we need to change the lines for the Kings Tonight if Toffoli wants to play like
1 Kopitar Fraser Toffoli
2 Brown Williams Carter
3 Clifford Penner Richards
4 Stoll King Nolan and give lewis and Richardson to have a day off rest if the kings will be too tired
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