Ready to go?

It’s hard to judge the mood of a locker room by standing in it for 15 minutes, but while there didn’t seem to be a lot of smiling and joking in the Kings’ locker room after practice today, there also didn’t seem to be any head-hanging. What to make of that? I haven’t the slightest idea, but players did their best to put forth the right attitude. All of the usual cliches about “one game at a time” were thrown around, and players insisted that they will be ready to go for Game 6.

Wayne Simmonds said, “If you can’t get up for this, then you’re crazy. It’s do or die. This could potentially be the last game of our season, so we’ll come out scrapping and we’re going to leave it all out there on the ice, that’s for sure.”

Terry Murray said he was confident that his players would be ready, and said, “I feel that last night is an easier game to move by than what it was in Game 4, in the third period where you lose. That’s a tough loss. So the response to their energy and their momentum is in how we come out and play tomorrow.”