Game Day Thread
Game #60/82 -- 02/24/23
Los Angeles Kings @ New York Islanders
UBS Arena | Elmont, NY
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No Previous Meetings This Season
**Game Time 4:30pm**
TV:BSW
Radio: LA Kings iHeartRadio app
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Sean Durzi & Todd McLellan 2/23 Post Game Quotes
Sean Durzi on the disappointment in getting just the one point tonight
Disappointing. I thought we could have won that game, I thought we should have won that game. I think the belief in here is strong, I think every night we think we could win, so it’s disappointing.
Durzi on his goal tonight to initially put the Kings ahead late
Kopi made a good pass and I put it in the net, but we’ve got to lock it down after that. He’s a world-class passer, Kevin won a battle and I saw their two guys kind of puck watching. Kopi just made a good pass.
Durzi on the focal points with the back-to-back tomorrow
I mean, we’ve got to win. That’s kind of your focus right now, points, everyone’s got to be desperate for points. Regroup, rest up and right back at it. It’s a good opportunity.
Todd McLellan on the balance between a good point and being disappointed not to get two
We’ll take the one we got. Not a lot of teams that come into this building or play against that team leave with points. On the other side of it, it is disappointing that we couldn’t get the last 30 seconds done, but you have to give them some credit too, they broke us down and made a nice play to the net. Again, I thought a pretty good effort from our group, maybe not enough players tonight to roll four lines, our fourth line got beat up a little bit and that was a little bit disappointing. For the most part, not a bad night, unfortunately, only one out of the two.
McLellan on if he felt there were similarities to leads given up over the past few weeks
No, not at all, I thought this was a completely different effort and attentiveness during the game than it was against Arizona the other night. Not even close.
McLellan onslotting Kevin Fiala with Phil Danault and Viktor Arvidsson
Well, it’s one thing that we haven’t tried all year, is Kevin with Phil and Arvy, I thought they were tremendous tonight. I really thought they had the puck a lot, I thought they made skilled plays and didn’t hurt us at all defensively. They look like they’ve played together before and yet they haven’t.
McLellan on the number of odd-man opportunities the Kings had tonight
Well, it’s sometimes not what we’re doing right, maybe sometimes what the other team is doing wrong, whether they gamble or they pinch at the wrong time, our team does that too. You want to keep plays alive, you’re pinching, I think offensive players are reading that the puck is going to stay alive and they stay in the zone and then it goes the other way. So, we did have some really good rush opportunities tonight, many more than we did in the o-zone. I thought it was an up and down game, it was fast, both teams played sharp, played well. It was probably a pretty entertaining night.
McLellan on New Jersey’s speed in 3-on-3 settings
Their speed can kill people 5-on-5, so imagine taking two players off the ice surface. They’re extremely skilled and talented and their offensive players may not be the biggest guys, but they can slither and slide off checks, change pace and escape. There’s probably a reason why they’re winning most of those.
Disappointing. I thought we could have won that game, I thought we should have won that game. I think the belief in here is strong, I think every night we think we could win, so it’s disappointing.
Durzi on his goal tonight to initially put the Kings ahead late
Kopi made a good pass and I put it in the net, but we’ve got to lock it down after that. He’s a world-class passer, Kevin won a battle and I saw their two guys kind of puck watching. Kopi just made a good pass.
Durzi on the focal points with the back-to-back tomorrow
I mean, we’ve got to win. That’s kind of your focus right now, points, everyone’s got to be desperate for points. Regroup, rest up and right back at it. It’s a good opportunity.
Todd McLellan on the balance between a good point and being disappointed not to get two
We’ll take the one we got. Not a lot of teams that come into this building or play against that team leave with points. On the other side of it, it is disappointing that we couldn’t get the last 30 seconds done, but you have to give them some credit too, they broke us down and made a nice play to the net. Again, I thought a pretty good effort from our group, maybe not enough players tonight to roll four lines, our fourth line got beat up a little bit and that was a little bit disappointing. For the most part, not a bad night, unfortunately, only one out of the two.
McLellan on if he felt there were similarities to leads given up over the past few weeks
No, not at all, I thought this was a completely different effort and attentiveness during the game than it was against Arizona the other night. Not even close.
McLellan onslotting Kevin Fiala with Phil Danault and Viktor Arvidsson
Well, it’s one thing that we haven’t tried all year, is Kevin with Phil and Arvy, I thought they were tremendous tonight. I really thought they had the puck a lot, I thought they made skilled plays and didn’t hurt us at all defensively. They look like they’ve played together before and yet they haven’t.
McLellan on the number of odd-man opportunities the Kings had tonight
Well, it’s sometimes not what we’re doing right, maybe sometimes what the other team is doing wrong, whether they gamble or they pinch at the wrong time, our team does that too. You want to keep plays alive, you’re pinching, I think offensive players are reading that the puck is going to stay alive and they stay in the zone and then it goes the other way. So, we did have some really good rush opportunities tonight, many more than we did in the o-zone. I thought it was an up and down game, it was fast, both teams played sharp, played well. It was probably a pretty entertaining night.
McLellan on New Jersey’s speed in 3-on-3 settings
Their speed can kill people 5-on-5, so imagine taking two players off the ice surface. They’re extremely skilled and talented and their offensive players may not be the biggest guys, but they can slither and slide off checks, change pace and escape. There’s probably a reason why they’re winning most of those.
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Kings Injuries
Carl Grundstrom (IR)
Trevor Moore (D2D)
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Former Kings Draft Pick
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Doug Houda - Assistant Coach
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WESTERN CONFERENCE STANDINGS
Tonight’s Poll Question:
Part 1 - How many total points will be scored by former Western Conference rivals Bo Horvat, Kyle Palmieri, Zach Parise, and Semyon Varlamov? (Clutterbuck is on IR)
You can take 2 guesses for this part
Part 2 - At what time of the game will the Kings score their 1st goal?
You can take 3 guesses - use the ___Min:Sec of the __ Period format
You can also choose “No Goals”
+/-2 mins = 1 point, +/- 1:00 = 2 points, +/- :30 = 3 points
1 point if you correctly guess “The Kings will not score any goals tonight”
Previous Game’s Winners
Congratulations to the following posters who correctly guessed within +/-4 of 54 SOG (The SOG total as of 9:00pm on 1/23):
Dead on 54 (3 points)
Chateau Bow Wow
+/-2 52-56 (2 points):
Rusty
beady eye
empire
TooCool
+/-4 50-58 (1 point):
SaltyPuck
pray4mojo
Liz4LA
notbob
SirJW
***WIN TOTALS NOT UPDATED - WAITING TO MAKE SURE SOG TOTALS DON’T CHANGE***
Poll Win Totals
King Of The Mountain
with 44 points:
VegasHockey
40 Points
LeftyKing
Rusty
sonnyboy11
srm1105
39 Points
Kurisu
38 Points
hornman
37 Points
Bill Hicks
John a90
36 Points
randdog
35 Points
AngelEyes
34 Points
pray4mojo
33 Points
DRGinLBC
DRice
forum gold
32 Points
beady eye
Liz4LA
31 Points
CIrvine
Helvetica
SirJW
TooCool
30 Points
29 Points
28 Points
Nyssa42
27 Points
jammer 06
26 Points
25 Points
Chateau Bow Wow
Clif
24 Points
23 Points
Rogie-Vachon
Sevenhole
22 Points
dannybuoy1
JETS GARAGE
KHenry14
notbob
21 Points
empire
hihocarp
20 Points
19 Points
waynet
18 Points
RoS
17 Points
kingsmen93
16 Points
Dr. Tran
15 Points
JayWells24
kingrussell
14 Points
Shackleford
13 Points
12 Points
Cross Traffic
11 Points
Busted Chops
Byron
10 Points
kopinator
9 Points
Dirtweazle
8 Points
7 Points
6 Points
beedee
5 Points
4 Points
3 Points
Dexter
HTK
salami
STONE
2 Points
05/29/93
PuckMaster
1 Point
Ice24
RagBone
Rinkrat
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