Game Day Thread
Game #6/82 - 10/18/25
>>6:00pm<<
on FanDuel
Carolina Hurricanes vs. Los Angeles Kings
Crypto.com Arena | Los Angeles, CA
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Phillip Danault & Jim Hiller 10/16 Post-Game Quotes
Phillip Danault
On where he felt tonight’s loss went wrong for the Kings
I would say best game 5-on-5, we got a lot of chances just got to bury. Obviously the penalty-kill goal and their power-play goal as well [hurt] and that’s pretty much the game right there.
On the backbreaker of the shorthanded game-winning goal
Yeah. I mean, it was a tough goal. Obviously they got the winner, right. We kept pushing after that, all game, and it didn’t go in. They took advantage.
On the biggest areas for improvement right now on the penalty kill
I mean, it’s a shot from the dot, so I don’t know. He’s a good player, like he’s going to find those little holes and he found it so maybe we could’ve cleared it before that, it’s a little mistake that ends up in the back of the net. They have really good players but every team has a good power play so we can’t afford those mistakes.
On if he would agree that the Kings had enough chances but did not finish
100 percent. It was just a matter that. We could have buried many more than two, that’s for sure.
Jim Hiller
On what he would consider to be the biggest area to improve right now
I don’t know if there’s one thing in particular. You look at the result and it’s zero points and that sucks. If you look at the game as a whole and you say, got to finish better, that’s just going to practice and trying to stay sharp, that’s one, but it’s hard to manufacture that. Their goalie played excellent and that was the difference in the game. We’re not going to try to dissect too much here. We haven’t given up a lot over the last three or four games, so we’re just going to try to pull ourselves out of it. We’re in a hole and we’re in a funk. There’s no question.
On the thought process into aligning the centers as they did with Kopitar out
I think the one thing is Phil’s line hadn’t been going great yet, so we just wanted to give that maybe a different look. We contemplated putting Turc right with Kuzy and Juice but we just thought maybe that other needed line needed a different look as well. So that’s kind of what the thought was to go behind that.
On if he sees similar inconsistencies between early-season losses
We brought our penalties down, let’s say that, but then we still gave one up, so that’s obviously a theme. We haven’t won the special teams battle yet this season. That’s an important part of any hockey game, it’s the special teams battle. Hard to win if you don’t win the special teams battle, so that that’s the one. We could have scored a power play goal, we had our opportunities there and then we gave one up. If you can point to one area, that’s the area you’re going to point to.
On chances created that went unfinished in tonight’s game
Yeah, there’s not much. You’ve just got to find a way to put it in the back of the net and again, give the goalie credit. Three posts, we beat him on those, so three posts and then some really good saves by him where we had what we like to call him Grade-A’s when you’re kind of that tight with the goaltender and he beat us. Even Laf at the end on the shorthanded [chance] had a good look right from in tight and the goaltender made the save.
On where he feels the power play is at right now
Yeah, it’s up and down. Tonight was probably our worst night of entering the zone and getting control, you saw that particularly on the one in the third period, where really, that’s a time when you’ve got a chance to get yourself back in and win the hockey game and we didn’t get that done, so that was really disappointing. Now, I take it back to Minnesota in the third period and we scored the big goal that we had to score. It goes up and down but I didn’t think our power play tonight was very sharp.
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PREVIOUS GAME'S WINNERS
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Hockey53
hornman
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Liz4LA
mugs
notbob
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VCRW
4 points
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Clif
HiFi
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