Game Day Thread
Game #32/82 - 12/15/25
>>5:00pm<<
on FanDuel
Los Angeles Kings @ Dallas Stars
American Airlines Center | Dallas, TX
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**Game Time 5:00pm**
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Kopitar & Hiller 12/13 Post-Game Quotes
Anze Kopitar
On his overtime goal being disallowed for a kicking motion
I wasn’t sure at first, but when I saw the replay, I figured it won’t count. Unfortunate. Obviously, I didn’t try and kick it, but it’s just the momentum and the way my foot was positioned and moving, it looked like it was a kick.
On Darcy Kuemper’s play tonight
He was the reason why we got the one point, really. Second period, he was outstanding. I mean, he’s been outstanding all year and last year. We almost take it for granted, so we’ve got to find ways to score more goals and give him some run support.
On what he feels this group is lacking right now, despite continue to collect points
I mean, we’re in a good spot, really. We’ve got to find a way to score more goals, obviously starting with power play. We have to figure something out, find something in order to jumpstart the offense and score more goals.
Jim Hiller
On if he felt tonight’s performance was one of the team’s poorest of the season
For the first 40 minutes, no question. Didn’t like the first 40, if it wasn’t for Darcy, obviously the game would have been over. The third period, we were better, they didn’t attack us as much. We still didn’t generate a whole bunch.
On how much he felt the difficulties in tonight’s loss was self inflicted
I thought where we got in the most trouble was the d-zone faceoff losses. Not only did they win them, but they won them clean. That got us spinning. Somebody said they had 15 faceoffs in our zone, in the first period, and they won 10, so that’s going to make it difficult. We had a hard time containing them in the o-zone. That, to me, was the biggest issue. We couldn’t close them.
On what he saw from Quinton Byfield tonight
In practice yesterday he shot the puck really well, scored about four goals in practice, guys are banging their sticks on the ice for him and that just didn’t carry over to tonight. He had some real looks. You’ve just got to start putting them on net, even if it’s from bad angles. I’m sure he’d be the first one to say that he passed a couple up.
On what he felt changed the most between Chicago/Utah and Seattle/Calgary
In both those last two games, we just didn’t generate again. I mean, that’s just the bottom line. If we’re in the o-zone and hanging on to pucks and even spending time just wearing them out a little bit, it happens to you, you’re out there for 20 seconds, now you pretty much just put the puck out and go make a line change and that’s what was happening to us. It wears you out and you don’t have the energy to push back and spend time in their zone.
On Darcy Kuemper’s play and if he feels he should be on Canada’s Olympic team
It just seems pretty obvious, the way he’s played, that he has to be in serious, serious consideration. Not just this year, right? Let’s take it right back. He’s been just incredible for us. Biased or not, it would be hard to say that he doesn’t deserve to be there.
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**POLL QUESTION GAME**
"Fun" fact: Dallas is 125-81-45 all-time vs. Los Angeles, including a 74-35-17 mark on home ice.
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PREVIOUS GAME'S WINNERS
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Both (2 points):
VegasHockey
Cross Traffic
Forum Gold
Hockey53
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Guinevere
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Rogie-Vachon
DRice
Chateau Bow Wow
randdog
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Drum4Pigs
hornman
notbob
RoS
Liz4LA
TooCool
symbology
Clif
kingsmen93
sonnyboy11
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HiFi
Dr. Tran
AngelEyes
Rusty
motalare
CIrvine
SirJW
beady eye
pray4mojo
VCRW
Nyssa42
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empire
POLL GAME WIN TOTALS
King of the Mountain - 33 points
KernCoKingFan
31 points
Clif
30 points
DRice
Drum4Pigs
29 points
Chateau Bow Wow
28 points
Cross Traffic
mugs
Nyssa42
27 points
Guinevere
pray4mojo
VCRW
26 points
Rusty
VegasHockey
25 points
Angel Eyes
HiFi
motolare
24 points
notbob
Rogie-Vachon
RoS
SirJW
23 points
Birdman
hornman
jammer06
Liz4LA
22 points
empire
Forum Gold
Hockey53
McSorleyFan
20 pts
beady eye
dannybuoy1
DRGinLBC
Rog or Reg?
19 points
sonnyboy11
18 points
CIrvine
randdog
17 points
Dr. Tran
TooCool
15 points
symbology
12 points
Ecktore
10 points
Shackleford
9 points
JC6388LAKings
8 points
ICE24
6 points
kingsmen93
5 points
Rinkrat
3 points
JETS GARAGE
2 points
Sevenhole
GO KINGS GO!!!
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