Game Day Thread
Game #45/82 - 1/12/26
>>7:00pm<<
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Dallas Stars vs. Los Angeles Kings
Crypto.com Arena | Los Angeles, CA
**Game Time 7:00pm**
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Alex Laferriere & Jim Hiller 1/10 Post-Game Quotes
Alex Laferriere
On getting a win over Edmonton in a hard fought game
That was a huge character win for us, couple huge guys out of our lineup, tough game last night, and then come in here into a barn that’s pretty hard to win in and play like that. It was a great game, and I mean we don’t win that game without Forsberg too. I thought he played unbelievable, stood on his head for us there, and gave us a chance to win it in the end.
On Forsberg’s play throughout the game
He’s a gamer, and comes up huge in big moments. For us to have him back there and know that we can rely on him to bail us out sometimes is huge and gives the guys in front of him a lot of confidence as well.
On what he saw on his goal
We kind of like talked about a faceoff play right before, and I just wanted to bear down and win the faceoff, and then kind of anything that happened after that was positive for me. So, I won that faceoff, and just kind of tried to get my body to the net, and Clarke and Kempe made great play up there. Clarke just slung it towards the net and I got a tip on it and luckily went in.
On if there was any extra meaning to this game vs. Edmonton
I mean, I think anytime we play these guys, there’s a little bit of extra juice, they’ve ended our season in the past four years. So yeah, anytime we can come in this barn especially and play those guys, we’re all pretty juiced up for that and we want to take it to them. So I think no matter what, when we play these guys, we’re a little extra juiced up.
On why the team has done so well on the second night of back-to-backs this year
I think just the depth of our team. I mean, you see guys like Lee tonight, Ward, these guys come in, not playing many games at all for us this year, and they come in and they produce, and they played unbelievable. Were out there against top guys and shutting them down and when we have guys like that come in to our lineup and we know that we can rely on them, especially when it’s a back-to-back and we’re a little bit tired and we need those guys to step up even bigger. They’ve done it pretty much all year. So it’s huge to have those guys.
Jim Hiller
On the way his team was prepared for the back-to-back situation
I think the back-to-backs, you want to test your character of your team, those are back-to-backs. And a lot of times, we got in really late last night, you can kind of build in an excuse a little bit, but we don’t do that. We haven’t done that, and I’m just really proud of the effort. It was a hard fought game last night despite the score, get in late, first time against Edmonton, and we came out right from the drop of the puck ready to play.
On the way his team played in the game overall
You’re going to bend against Edmonton at different times, especially when they go on the power play. But I thought, zero through 60, we were pretty consistent the whole way through. Our penalty killers, despite the five-on-three goal, I thought our penalty killers at five-on-four, that’s the best we’ve killed Edmonton, and so that was a real positive, really important part of the game. I also thought that Sam Helenius’ line, you can talk about Lee scoring the goal, but Sam Helenius’ line, I thought they gave us real minutes. They played in the o-zone, they forechecked, Sam got caught a couple times against Draisaitl, playing d-zone for a good 30 seconds and did a great job.
On Corey Perry returning to the lineup and being a big part of the win
To me, he’s going through a tough time, and this is a hockey player just through and through. He comes, he shows up here, he wants to play hockey, he wants to help his team in difficult circumstances, and then he goes out and scores a goal. He plays 15-16 minutes, a lot of times against McDavid’s line, it’s pretty incredible. I just have a lot of respect for him.
On the play of Alex Laferriere and his goal
Really nice play. Faceoff, first of all you’ve got to win the faceoff. Clarke comes down the wall, throws it in. It’s a really good tip. It’s a difficult tip. He was a guy who played a heck of a game tonight, too. A winger who’s converted to center, and then he’s winning big faceoffs at the end against some of the top face off guys. There’s so many elements that go into a game like this, and just up and down the lineup we got some really, really big efforts.
On this being another example of responding well to losses
Last night was a funny game. In the end, we have 80 shot attempts, we got all kinds of chances, they get two off the skates, one kind of a funny one. So it was demoralizing the score, but we played through it, and I thought what was important is to finish that game hard and well, we did in the third period. I thought that carried over into tonight too. It’s just a really good win for us.
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