***GDT for 2021 GAME 1 - Minnesota Wild vs. LA Kings 1/14/21 7:00pm on FSW***

[Nyssa42]

Official Game Day Thread
Game #1/56 -- 1/14/21



Minnesota Wild vs. Los Angeles Kings

at Center | Los Angeles, CA


Last Season’s Meetings:

03/07/20 — Wild 3, Kings 7
11/12/19 — Wild 1, Kings 3
10/26/19 — Kings 1, Wild 5

**GAME TIME - 7:00 PM**

TV:**Fox Sports West**

Radio: LA Kings iHeartRadio app

Please remember, DO NOT post links to Live Game Streams in the GDT or anywhere else on LGK



Post Game Quotes

will go here when there are some to report

Check Out Articles and Other Content at the ALL NEW LA Kings Insider here
Mayor’s Manor is now part of LAKI

Subject To Change

via Mayors Manor, Here are tonight's lines:

Iafallo – Kopitar – Brown
Athanasiou – Lizotte – Carter
Kempe – Vilardi – Wagner
Moore – Amadio – Luff

Maatta – Doughty
Anderson – Roy
Clague – Alt

Quick

KINGS OPENING DAY ROSTER

Forwards (13):
Michael Amadio (10), Andreas Athanasiou (22), Dustin Brown (23), Jeff Carter (77), Carl Grundstrom (91), Alex Iafallo (19), Adrian Kempe (9), Anze Kopitar (11), Blake Lizotte (46), Matt Luff (64), Trevor Moore (12), Gabriel Vilardi (13), Austin Wagner (27)

Defensemen (7):
Mark Alt (5), Mikey Anderson (44), Tobias Bjornfot (33), Kale Clague (58), Drew Doughty (8), Olli Maatta (6), Matt Roy (3)

Goaltenders (2):
Troy Grosenick (1), Jonathan Quick (32)

Taxi Squad (4):
Jaret Anderson-Dolan, Lias Andersson, Austin Strand, Matthew Villalta

Kings Injuries/Unfit to Play*

Martin Frk
Kurtis MacDermid*
Cal Petersen*
Alex Turcotte
Sean Walker*
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WILD OPENING DAY ROSTER

Forwards

Nick Bjugstad, Nick Bonino, Joel Erickson Ek, Kevin Fiala, Marcus Foligno, Jordan Greenway, Ryan Hartman, Marcus Johansson, Karill Kaprizov, Gerald Mayhew, Zach Parise, Victor Rask, Nico Sturm

Defensemen

Jonas Brodin, Matt Dumba, Brad Hunt, Greg Pateryn, Carson Soucy, Jared Spurgeon, Ryan Suter

Goalies

Kaapo Kahkonen, Cam Talbot

TAXI SQUAD

Forwards

Luke Johnson, Kyle Rau

Defensemen
Matt Bartkowski, Louie Belpedio, Dakota Mermis

Goalies

Andrew Hammond

Wild Probable Lineup
(courtesy of www2.dailyfaceoff.com)

FORWARDS







Injured Non-Roster Players

Marco Rossi
Alex Stalock
Mats Zuccarello

No Former Kings

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GOALIE COMPARISONS

Will go here when there is something to compare

PLAYER STATS

2019-2020 Stats for Top 10 players each team





HONDA WEST DIVISION STANDINGS







This Season’s Poll Question Game:

Due to the uncertainty of this upcoming season and only interdivisional play, the Poll Question is going to be the SAME for every game this season (at least to start out).

If the season gets interesting, I reserve the right to start creating other fun questions, but for now, here is the question for tonight's game, and every game:

Which player is going to score the FIRST goal for the Kings?
and
Which player is going to score the FIRST goal for the Opponent (Wild)?

SHOOTOUT GOALS WILL NOT COUNT (in the case of a 0-0 tie)
(2 points available per game)

**You can take 3 guesses per team**
You may also guess “no goals” for either or both teams as one of your 3 guesses.

Take your best guesses in your post below. Edits to your “guess” post WILL be allowed up until puck drop time. I will make every effort to list the correct lineups by the time of puck drop, but I make no guarantees that my lineups will be correct.

The only prize is the glory of seeing your name in the next GDT if you get it right.


Last Season’s Final Standings

King Of The Mountain with 35 points:

srm1105

34 points

LeftyKing

33 points

notbob

31 points

beady eye
hokiecat
SirJW
VegasHockey

28 points

05/29/93
Stormy2213

26 points

cokingsfan
dannybuoy1

25 points

ChilledAgua
MaxwellSmart
Puckmaster

24 points

hornman
JWR

23 points

AngelEyes
empire
jammer06
Kurisu
Rusty
waynet

20 points

Greg33
Nyssa42
pray4mojo
Rogie-Vachon
VCRW

19 points

Craig22929
forum gold
John a90
KHenry14
kingrussell
sonnyboy11

17 points

Dr. Tran
Krussadams
Liz4LA
vindogla

16 points

rozzy

15 points

Butch19
Hockey53
Ice24

14 points

GALLY
TooCool

13 points

Sevenhole

12 points

CIrvine
DRGinLBC

11 points

JayWells24

10 points

CUP4LA
NotherCastle

8 points

Joe Lavigueur

7 points

emsomaso

6 points

LAKingSteve
Ragbone
Rawley19

5 points

Helvetica

4 points

randdog

3 points

JETS GARAGE
K-man #32

2 points

beedee
Henry1515
Histiking
kingsX
MBreeden
Shackleford

1 point

2LeftSkates
FAN4LIFE
JasonU
Kings Provisional
kings022
Rinkrat
STONE
Troyvsc
What party?
Zombitar


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Photos courtesy of nhl.com.

[srm1105]

Ah ya...it’s that time. Welcome back everyone.
Kings:
Kopitar
Brown
Iafallo

Wild:
Bonino
Parise
Foligno

Thanks Nyssa.

[notbob]

Parise
Fiala
Bjugstad

Kopi
vilardi
Maata

[Dirtweazle]

Brown
Athanasiou
Iafallo


Bonino
Spurgeon
Foligno

[Dr. Tran]

For the Kings - Kopitar, Vilardi, Athanasiou.
For the Wild - Parise, Bjugstad, Bonino.
Go Kings Go!

[Zombitar]

HOCKEEEEH!!!


KOPI
vilardi
bjornfot



GO KINGS GO!!

[jammer06]

Thank you Nyssa!

For the kings:
No goal
Walker
Kempe

For the wild:
Fiala
Kaprizov
Parise

Honestly let's see what we've got.

[CIrvine]

Kempe
Brown
Maatta


Johansson
Bonino
Spurgeon

[RagBone]

Wild: Dumba, Parise, Johansson
Kings: Doughty, Brown, Iafallo

As always, Nyssa, huge thanks for these threads. You da "man."

[STONE]

Vilardi
Iafallo
Carter

Parise
Bjugstad
Fiala

Thanks, Nyssa, and GKG!!!