Game Day Thread
Game #60/82 -- 03/03/25
>>5:30pm<<
on FanDuel
Los Angeles Kings @ Chicago Blackhawks
United Center | Chicago, IL
**Game Time 5:30pm**
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Radio: ESPN LA app only
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Joel Edmundson (video), Anze Kopitar, & Jim Hiller 3/1 Post-Game Quotes
Anze Kopitar
On his takeaways from tonight’s game
Yeah. I mean, obviously a quick turnaround from last night and everything, but that’s no excuse. We’ve just got to play better, we’ve got to play with a lot of emotions and everybody’s got to contribute more, me being on the very top of that list. I’ve got to lead the way and make sure that the team is ready and a lot more engaged than we were tonight.
On a frustrating few weeks for him personally
It’s definitely not been an easy span here, but just got to keep on plugging away. I guess the good part is we did get a few wins during that span, so that’s obviously good, but in order for us to go where we want to go, everybody’s got to be on top of that game and like I said, it’s me on top of that list.
On the team’s defensive play in tonight’s game and getting away from Kings hockey
We’ve been talking about it and giving up six last night and then four tonight, you’re not going to win very many games giving up four-plus goals. So, we’re going to have to tighten that up and make sure that the game in Chicago is obviously tighter and more Kings hockey.
On a bright spot of scoring on the power play after going 0-for-4 in Dallas
Power play hasn’t been good. It’s been a little bit better at home than on the road, so we’ve got to put an emphasis on that too and make sure, at the very least, it’s giving us momentum during games, but in order to win games, you’ve got to score goals.
Jim Hiller
On his takeaways from tonight’s defeat
We talked before the game about the power play, so we go out score a really nice power-play goal. I thought that gave us little energy early and then just too many mistakes and we let them back in. Once they got back into the game, I thought they started playing pretty well and we just didn’t have enough. We threw a lot of pucks to the net, we had bodies there, all that kind of stuff, but Binnington made saves and then we missed the net or they got blocked way too many times.
On the team’s defensive play tonight and getting away from Kings hockey
Yeah. Back to back and then you’re chasing a game that you want to stay ahead. Once you’ve got to chase them, they have a lot of offensive players now you get flat footed, you don’t have the same energy and it goes the other way and quickly. That’s what happened. Those are some bad chances, rush chances that we typically wouldn’t give up, but we’re chasing it. We had to lock it down when we had the 1-0 lead and clog it up at that point and we never did.
On the offensive chances tonight and lacking that incisive finish
On the handful of really good looks that we did have, Binnington made the save and then we probably had 30 throws from the blue line, where we had people in and around the net and we just didn’t find a stick or a skate. Those ones you can’t do too much, I thought we had decent traffic. Sometimes you just need to bounce on those ones, there was lots of bodies in front of the net.
On needing someone to make a play, whether it a goal, a pass or a save
Well, you’d like that. I think if you evaluate that game from our perspective, we didn’t make a lot of consecutive plays. We had opportunities to pull up, make a play, hit a trailer and we’re two feet in front of them or we’re two feet behind, whereas tonight, St Louis, I thought was really dangerous offensely, hold it up, pulled it across the line, sauce pass, sauce pass, chance. We didn’t have a high enough execution at all.
On the desperation St. Louis brought and Kopitar wanting to see that on Monday in Chicago
It’s a season where it goes up and down but when it goes down for a couple games, you’ve got to pull yourself out in a hurry. How do you do that? You got to say, well, it’s the beginning of March, still got lots of games, but we need to win and so there has to be a higher level of intensity, desperation, as he mentioned, for the game. You can’t manufacture that each and every game over 82, but now, you’ve got to pull that out and not just you, that whole entire team has to raise it for the next game.
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