***LA Kings @ Colorado Avalanche Weds & Thurs GDT 6:00pm on BSSC (W) & BSW (Th)***

[Nyssa42]

Official Game Day Thread
Games #55 & 56 -- 5/12 & 5/13/21




Los Angeles Kings @ Colorado Avalanche

Ball Arena | Denver, CO


Previous Meetings:

05/08/21 — Avalanche 3, Kings 2
05/07/21 — Avalanche 3, Kings 2
03/14/21 — Kings 1, Avalanche 4
03/12/21 — Kings 0, Avalanche 2
01/21/21 — Avalanche 2, Kings 4
01/19/21 — Avalanche 3, Kings 2

**GAME TIME - 6:00 PM**

TV:WEDS -**Bally’s Sports Southern California**
(formerly Prime Ticket)
THURS -**Bally’s 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



Todd McLellan Post Game Quotes 5/10/21

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Todd McLellan
On the team’s checking and defensive effort tonight:
I thought we were, for the most part, responsible, we broke the puck out of our end quite well tonight, which was a good thing. The first goal they scored on, we missed on the backcheck that we should have picked somebody up, but other than that, there weren’t a lot of mistakes defensively. In overtime, the puck bounced over Kempe’s stick and they took advantage of it, but defensively, fairly satisfied with the game. Offensively, I thought, for a team that really has to work hard to score, I thought we got cute, we wanted to make plays when we should have been shooting the puck and it probably cost us the game. When we play direct, when we play North – South, when we play to the paint, we have a better chance of winning. When we play East – West, when we play through the slot, one side of the rink to the other, I don’t think it favors our team. We’re still trying to figure that out, eventually we’ll get it.
On what he liked specifically on the defensive end, and limiting the Blues’ shot totals:
As I said earlier, I think we broke the puck out fairly well tonight. Our neutral zone set up our breakouts, and we were able to come out of our zone, we weren’t under siege for very many shifts and therefore they didn’t get that “shoot and get it back” mentality. St. Louis isn’t a volume shooting team to begin with, they like to hold onto the puck and set up for one really good shot, and I thought we defended well against it, but the big part was the breakout part. We’ve been stressing that lately, working into position and moving the puck quickly enough. I thought we did a good job and that helped us with our defensive play.
On if he’s confident that the system and structure will flourish as the team develops and adds talent to the roster:
We have work to do. We’ve got to sit down and evaluate the players that we have here. I know they’re not all going to be back, we’ve got to go out and recruit, find some other players that can help us. I think we have a lot of work to do still. We’ve got to keep the veteran players – obviously Quickie and Brownie haven’t been playing in these games due to injury – we’ve got to keep them at a high level and get them back there when the season starts next year. Our younger players, that have been in the league now for a year or two, must show improvement. They have to begin to carry more of the load, offensively, defensively, game management, it’s a must that they graduate and move on to the next level, break through. That’ll be a big challenge for us as a team. If we get that breakthrough and we augment the team a little bit with some players, we’ll be okay. If we don’t get the push through to the next level from a lot of players, it’ll take us more time. We need it from them, and they’ll be directed that way heading into the summer.
On what it meant to have the fans behind the team one last time this season:
For us as an organization, it meant a lot. Obviously a messed up year for everybody outside of sports, but for us in particular, with hockey, having to play in front of empty buildings, empty arenas, over and over again, finally getting people back in made a huge difference, you could feel the energy. I think as the [games] went on, our fanbase seemed to grow, or became more active in the games, maybe we gave them more to cheer about. I thought the last game, we could really feel it and tonight it grew even more. I thank our fans for showing up, I wish them a healthy summer and hopefully when we get back in here, we’ve got 20,000 people on opening night and it feels incredibly different. That lift that they can give us, we’ve missed for a long time.

Subject To Change

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

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No Former Kings
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GOALIE COMPARISONS




PLAYER STATS





HONDA WEST DIVISION STANDINGS





No More Poll Questions:


THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO HAS PLAYED THE GAME THIS SEASON!! I hope you had fun even if you never made it to King of the Mountain.



Previous Game’s Winners

HUGE THANKS TO JAMMER FOR LISTING THE WINNERS FOR ALL MY CRAZY QUESTIONS THIS SEASON.

Congratulations to the following Poster who was our only winner of the night by guessing Faulk as the last goal scorer of the season at Staples:

Rusty

Nobody had Barbashev for last penalty, and many of us would have scored with Wagner.
Nobody guessed less than a total of 4 goals in any combination for the final score.

Poll Win Totals

CONGRATS TO LEFTYKING,
who holds on as sole King of the Mountain for their 3rd win in the past 4 seasons.
In case you’re wondering, srm1105 won last season (2019-20), and Lefty King came in 2nd place. In the 2018-2019 season, LeftyKing, srm1105, and jammer06 shared KOTM honors, with Rusty a close 2nd. In 2017-18, LeftyKing and srm1105 were the Kings of the Mountain, with hokiecat in 2nd place.

I think we all know whose answers we’re copying next season…….

King Of The Mountain with 39 points:

LeftyKing

Valiant Warriors with 36 points

AngelEyes
Dr. Tran
Rusty

35 points


34 points

Liz4LA

33 points

Stormy2213

32 points

Helvetica
John a90
MaxwellSmart
Rogie-Vachon

31 points

hornman

30 points

CIrvine
srm1105

29 points

VegasHockey

28 points

Chateau Bow Wow
hokiecat
KHenry14

27 points

cokingsfan
forum gold
sonnyboy11

26 points

notbob

25 points

VCRW


21 points

pray4mojo

20 points

JETS GARAGE

19 points

jammer06
Nyssa42
waynet

18 points

17 points

Clif
MBreeden
SirJW

16 points


15 points

dannybuoy1
DRGinLBC
JayWells24

14 points

kingsmen93

13 points


12 points

Busted Chops
Puckmaster
Sevenhole
TooCool

11 points


10 points

empire
Rawley19



7 points

Joe Lavigueur
Shackleford

6 points

Ragbone

5 points

Byron
Histiking
Ice24

4 points

beedee
randdog

3 points

05/29/93
FAN4LIFE
Greg33
kingrussell
LAKingSteve
STONE
Tiranga
Zombitar

2 points

NobleSavage

1 point

beady eye
Dexter
Dirtweazle
Ecktore
jom
Trapper9


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Photos courtesy of nhl.com.

[orpheus]

Once again, it's that time of year! I am happy to declare it be Nyssa Appreciation Day!



Thanks for all your work during the season! So long and thanks for all the GDTs!

[kingsmen93]

Thank you so much Nyssa and Jammer for all that you do for us Kings Fans! It certainly made the season more enjoyable despite our team not making it to the playoffs this year.
Go Kings Go!!!

[jammer06]

Thank you Nyssa! Have fun on your travel day and looking forward to seeing you next week.

[cokingsfan]

A Huge Thank You to Nyssa and Jammer, this posting every year is fun and greatly appreciated!

[Rogie-Vachon]

Until October - Enjoy your summer - Another lottery pick I'm hopin' - and a real division without those interlopers from CO, MN & STL

[srm1105]

Respect Lefty.

Thank you Nyssa and Jammer for the great threads and questions.

Let’s forget this year, I mean both the Kings play and me coming up 9 points short.

GKG

[beedee]

Thanks GDSquad for another great year of GDT's!

[Helvetica]

Thanks Nyssa and Jammer. Wouldn't be the same here without you two.

[VegasHockey]

Once again, it's that time of year! I am happy to declare it be Nyssa Appreciation Day!



Thanks for all your work during the season! So long and thanks for all the GDTs!

The cosmic ballet goes on.