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
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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
FORWARDS
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Avalanche Probable Lineup
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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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