Game Day Thread
Game #48/82 - 1/17/26
>>7:00pm<<
on FanDuel
Los Angeles Kings @ Anaheim Ducks
Honda Center | Anaheim, CA
**Game Time 7:00pm**
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Radio: ESPN LA app, Kings app, & Sirius
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Quinton Byfield & Jim Hiller 1/16 Post-Game Quotes
Quinton Byfield
On seeing another winnable game slip away without the two points
Being up 2-0 and giving that back, it’s not good. I feel like last year we were a lot better at shutting those down and that’s something that we’ve got to improve on, especially with two divisional opponents recently. Even just the extra point in overtime, shootout, those are big points too, so definitely want to get those.
On what he can point to as the difference between this year’s team and last year’s team in that department
There might not be just one thing, but just even for myself, I started making some turnovers, giving them some odd-man rushes, starting to get on the wrong side of the puck at times. When you’re up two, you feel a little bit better and try more stuff. So, just kind of stick to how we got that two-goal lead and keep going with that.
On what the Kings did well early and what he felt changed midway through the game
I think we were shooting the puck, breaking the puck out clean, putting it behind them and making their D turn, not giving them much. Then, we just gave them some life back and they started taking it to us a bit.
On his goal tonight and what he saw on that play
Yeah, it was a good play by Army. I was looking for the pass the whole time, I didn’t really see the option and I have my shot, just wanted to take that one on.
Jim Hiller
On whether the Kings are at a place where one point is not enough
Oh, that’s not good enough. No, we’re there. No question. We’ve been there for a while, really. Yeah, no.
On when the game changed after his team had a good start
It was when they scored after we scored, right? Which is a cardinal sin in ice hockey. You don’t give them one up late, last minute, first minute, not on the bump up shift after you score, because obviously it gets them back in the game when you have a chance to really step on them and kill their momentum. What did I see there? I mean, we made some mistakes. I talked about our mistakes were coming down, tonight we made way too many mistakes. We turned the puck over way too often. We had a bad line change, we got caught in the wrong side of it in the neutral zone, their defenseman jump active. So the last seven, eight minutes of the second period, I think that were four or five odd man rushes, which generally are hard to get against us. So that was the issue with tonight’s game.
On the struggle to hold leads this season compared with last season
What I can tell you is this, we have to lock that down. We still have to push and we’ll get our chances. Somebody said we created a lot of chances in the first half of the game. We’ll still get our chances. But for me, and maybe it’s the lack of scoring up until this point this year, we’re still one foot on the gas, one on the break, and we got ourselves caught in between, like I said, four or five times for odd man rushes. We just can’t do that. We’re not going to outscore those mistakes, and when you try to just do it that way, and then then you give up too many and now, you’re in a you’re in a seesaw battle.
On the impact of Joel Armia who returned to the lineup
He sticks out to me. His hockey sense, his strength, you saw the penalty kill, he gets a breakaway. So those are things we’ve missed for sure. He’s an important player for us. I think you if you didn’t think about it before, I think it was pretty clear tonight the difference he can make in a lineup.
On the team’s decisions to shoot vs. pass on opportunities
We had opportunities, I think, Laf on the two-on-one in overtime. Very similar situation. In hindsight, I guess if he sauces over the stick and Juice one times in the net, we’re talking about what a great pass. But in hindsight, you got an opportunity like that, you probably want to just pull the trigger. And we had other opportunities during the game, Kuzy came down the slot a couple of times. There were others that that we didn’t take. We can’t cut it too fine. We have to take the opportunities when we’re presented with them.
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**POLL QUESTION GAME**
The Ducks and Kings both finished with 28 SOG in last night's game
Part 1 - How many TOTAL SOG will be taken by the KINGS in tonight's game?
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PREVIOUS GAME'S WINNERS
2-Game question carries over so no new winners
POLL GAME WIN TOTALS
King of the Mountain - 49 points
DRice
46 points
KernCoKingFan
42 points
Nyssa42
40 points
Chateau Bow Wow
Drum4Pigs
39 points
Clif
VegasHockey
37 points
Birdman
Guinevere
VCRW
36 points
Cross Traffic
motolare
mugs
RoS
Rusty
35 points
Angel Eyes
HiFi
jammer06
Rogie-Vachon
34 points
empire
pray4mojo
33 points
Liz4LA
SirJW
32 points
Forum Gold
randdog
31 points
Hockey53
hornman
notbob
29 points
dannybuoy1
DRGinLBC
McSorleyFan
symbology
27 points
beady eye
26 points
Dr. Tran
25 points
sonnyboy11
24 points
TooCool
21 points
CIrvine
Shackleford
20 pts
Rog or Reg?
12 points
Ecktore
9 points
ICE24
JC6388LAKings
6 points
kingsmen93
5 points
Rinkrat
3 points
JETS GARAGE
2 points
Sevenhole
GO KINGS GO!!!
