Game Day Thread
Game #28/82 - 12/06/25
>>6:00pm EARLY START<<
on FanDuel & KCAL Ch9
Chicago Blackhawks vs. Los Angeles Kings
Crypto.com Arena | Los Angeles, CA
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**Game Time 6:00pm**
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Warren Foegele & Jim Hiller 12/04 Post-Game Quotes
Warren Foegele
On the frustration in a game like that
I don’t know if the first 40 was our best and we pushed hard in the in the last 20, but it’s hard to win games like that, right? We’ve been on the right side of it but we’ve also been on the wrong side of it with these one-goal games. I think the disappointing thing is that we just, we weren’t really connected in the first two periods and it definitely bit us.
On the team’s extended drought offensively
I think this game, a lot of it has to do with confidence. When pucks aren’t going in, for a stretch there, it definitely wears on guys in the room. You can’t feel sorry for yourself, you’ve just got to keep it simple, go to the net and you just hope that one goes off your butt or your chest, or something like that. There’s not much room out there, but you’ve just got to work hard and find a way.
On beating out the icing to set up Trevor Moore for the team’s only goal
Mooresie got it in there deep and I just won the 50/50 and made a play on it, and fortunate enough that it went in. The game is about 50/50’s and if you win your puck battles, you give yourself a chance. Pretty direct play as well, so the more we can do that, the more chances we can get.
On taking the third period effort and translating it over 60 minutes
One thing I noticed from watching games is it feels like when we’re down goals, we’re really more on our toes. I felt like last year, that was a lot of our success was being on our toes. I don’t know if we’re trying to sit back or anything like that, but it feels like when we’re trailing we keep things much simpler and we’re trying to score a goal. So, maybe if we have that mindset to start the game, it might be a lot easier for us.
Jim Hiller
On his takeaways from tonight’s game
The first period was terrible and that might be polite. Second period, we had a stretch of maybe six minutes. The third period, we pushed hard, it might have worked, but we gave them way too much the other way, despite that.
On the team’s style of play tonight
We had a team of players tonight – and I’m trying to think of, I’m sure there were a few exceptions, usually it’s the other way, I’m sure there was a few exceptions – we had a team of players tonight that thought that they were going to play the game their way, how they wanted to play it. We play a really demanding style of hockey on the players and they do an exceptional job of it, have done it for years and there always looks like there could be a more exciting and sexy way to do it. I think you saw players try and play that game through, at least most of the first 40 minutes and I think you saw a pretty clear result in that style of hockey for our team in particular.
On Phillip Danault’s game after moving down in the lineup
I think if the whole team, I can tell you right now, is pulling for Phil, the whole team. I thought he just had, a couple good chances, five good chances tonight, it wasn’t just those other ones, he had a couple shots from the slot. I’ll tell you, everybody’s excited, the whole bench, guys want him to score, we all do. Despite that, I thought he had his best game of the year tonight, I really did, all over the ice, and he really played well. Credit to him.
On the frustration he’s sensing from the team’s offensive struggles as a whole, over now an extended stretch
There’s some [visible frustration] for sure, but for the most part, we’ve stuck with it and stayed the course. If I would’ve seen this game two weeks ago and then maybe a decent game and then this game again, then I would say absolutely, absolutely, but no, I think our guys have stuck with it. I’m sure they’re not happy and they want more, we’re all humans here, but again, I would first off give them credit for being able to be mentally focused and being able to consistently play a good, honest, hard, structured game, except tonight, tonight was that was not in their mind. That’s that was really obvious to me early.
On the continued struggles of the power play tonight, going 0-for-5
We didn’t like it before and maybe we were better before than we are now. We got frustrated when we were 16, 17, 18 percent and over the last while, trying to tweak it, trying to change, trying to work on it, we haven’t got any results from that whatsoever. That’s disappointing, extremely.
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