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Game Day Thread
Game #55/82 -- 02/22/24
7:30 PM Pacific
on
Nashville Predators vs. Los Angeles Kings
Crypto.com Arena | Los Angeles, CA
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Previous Meetings
01/31/24 -- Kings 4, Predators 2
01/18/24 -- Predators 2, Kings 1
**Game Time 7:30PM Pacific**
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Radio: LA Kings iHeartRadio
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Dubois (video), Byfield & Hiller 2/20/24 Post-Game Quotes:
Quinton Byfield
On his chemistry with forward Pierre-Luc Dubois
He’s a great player, that’s why we brought him. He’s been good for us lately and it’s easy to play with him. He holds onto pucks, he’s playing both ends of the ice really well, he’s skating good, he’s doing all the right things very well and making it easy on me.
On his goal
I just kind of picked up the puck off the faceoff and saw I had a lot of speed. I saw their D come across on me, trying to kind of serve me there and I knew had him beat. I just knew it was a 1-on-1, I thought I was going to take Werenski on the outside and then he tried cutting me off there, so I just tried to get into the middle. I saw the puck kind of was just sitting there and then I just tried to do whatever to get it to the net. It ended up working out.
On if he feels he would have made that play last season
This time last year I might’ve dumped it in. I feel good with the puck right now. Everywhere I am, I’m wanting the puck, trying to get open, so the confidence is definitely there, just knowing that I can make plays. I’m confident in my shot as well, just knowing if I shoot it, I’ve got a good chance of scoring.
On closing out a two-goal lead in the third period as a team
I think we killed two or three penalties in that period, our PK has been unbelievable all year, so major props to them. Talbs, coming back in the net and making a ton of saves tonight. Then, obviously the power play connecting, Kev with a great shot there and then Dewey late. Everyone was playing really well tonight and everyone was involved.
On playing with 11 forwards after Arvidsson’s injury early in the game
It’s so tough, it sucks to see. Arvy just got back from a major injury, so it really does suck to see, because he’s a great guy, he was awesome for our team. He kind of came back and sparked our team again, he was playing unbelievable, so that’s going to be a big loss for us
Jim Hiller
On how he felt the team responded to playing with 11 forwards throughout the game
Well, they did a good job, we won the game, right? What was difficult was, we just came off a really tough stretch on the road, so that’s not a night that you want to be down to 11 that quickly. So, we tried to spread it around a little bit, I thought everybody dug in. Some guys up front really carried a little extra tonight.
On Quinton Byfield’s highlight-reel goal in the first period
That was a beautiful goal, wasn’t it? With Q, he can really skate, so despite us not having legs as a team, we knew that Q is going to give us energy and skate, he always does that, he’s just got an incredible motor. We knew what we’re going to get. We didn’t know he was going to go through two guys and bury it on his backhand, but happy for him, you know what I mean? Here’s a guy that took a little bit of flack early in his career and he’s just starting to get his legs going. He’s got a tremendously bright future with the Kings and we’re all glad to be watching him grow in front of our eyes.
On continued improvements in Pierre-Luc Dubois’ game
I think he’s playing the game with more intensity, and that’s all over the ice, defensively as well, and that goes hand in hand. So he’s stepped up his game, there’s no question. He’s getting rewarded with some points, I like to see that. I think just generally, overall, he’s just increased his intensity level.
On getting another strong performance in net from Cam Talbot
We needed that. We made some mistakes that are hard to believe, from the coaches perspective. Sometimes when you play as much as we have, you travel, you get some mental errors. We had those and Talbs was just fantastic.
Subject to Change
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**Today’s Poll Question**
Part 1 - How many total points will be scored by all players born after 1/1/2000?
You can take 2 guesses
(Byfield, Clarke, Kaliyev, Laferriere, Turcotte, Spence, Afanasayev, Evangelista)
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PREVIOUS GAME’S WINNERS
Congratulations to the posters who correctly guessed Byfield 1st goal and/or two non 5 on 5 goals:
Both (2 pts):
DRGinLBC
mugs
Drum4Pigs
pray4mojo
Cross Traffic
Tiranga
Liz4LA
Kurisu
Rusty
Byfield (1 pt)
DRice
Dexter
Dr. Tran
Madness20721
Guinevere
JayWells24
VegasHockey
beady eye
notbob
dannybuoy1
KernCoKingFan
Rogie-Vachon
jammer06
sonnyboy11
JETS GARAGE
Bill Hicks
Jerram
JC6388LAKings
forum gold
2 non 5v5 goals (1 pt):
SirJW
puckoff
VCRW
Rog or Reg?
randdog
Nyssa42
empire
Shackleford
King of the Mountain with 41 points - forum gold
37 points = Angel Eyes
36 points = Cross Traffic, hornman
35 points = notbob
32 points = mugs
31 points = beady eye, Nyssa42, SirJW, VegasHockey
30 points = jammer06, puckoff, Randdog, Rusty, Shackleford
29 points = VCRW
28 points = Guinevere, KernCoKingsFan
27 points = Dr Tran, Jerram
26 points = Chateau Bow Wow, katydid213
25 points = Kurisu, pray4mojo
24 points = DRice, Rogie-Vachon
23 points = empire, Liz4LA
22 points = DRGinLBC, Rog or Reg?
21 points = clif, dannybuoy1
20 points = Byron
19 points = JayWells24, Madness20721, Rinkrat, waynet
18 points = Bill Hicks, KHenry14, TooCool
17 points = CIrvine, Drums4Pigs
16 points =
15 points = sonnyboy11
14 points = hihocarp, Salty Puck
13 points = symbology
12 points =
11 points = JETS GARAGE, Sevenhole
8 points = cokingsfan, fake_it_make_it, Ice24
7 points = rfischer
6 points = Busted Chops, Dexter
4 points = beedee
3 points = HiFi, JC6388LAKings
2 points = Ragbone, Tiranga
1 point = PuckMaster, STONE
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