GDT ***LA Kings @ Tampa Bay Lightning GDT 12/18/25 4:00pm on FanDuel***

[VCRW]

Take this garbage to HF boards. We don’t need this here.

Thank you.

 

[VCRW]

Look at how Kempe scored. Even that’s an indictment on Hiller. It wasn’t some controlled breakout or strategic line matching. It was chaos both times. Both goals off the rush.

Hiller’s offensive gameplan is wait for the other team to make an error, hope they aren’t ready to defend correctly and hope the goalie doesn’t make a save. This is why everyone’s stats are down and why the Kings have the most boring offense in the league. They don’t have a system in place to generate quality scoring chances.

Hiller has made the team into counterpunchers, opportunists. I don’t see an offensive identity for this team either. And Hiller definitely supports the chaos with Fiala and QB leading the forwards in TOI. In the meantime, Juice has 7 more points than anyone else on the squad. Kempe became the team’s leading scorer by minimizing the uncontrolled elements in his game. There is time for Q to develop discipline, but Fiala is a lost cause.

 

[Guinevere]

Congratulations to the following posters who correctly guessed Kings with 3 goals, and/or FLA teams with 4 goals, and/or within =/- 2:00 of 15:58 of the second:

Kings 3 goals (1 Point):
SirJW
Hockey53
Rusty
VegasHockey
Forum Gold
mugs
Cross Traffic
AngelEyes
KernCoKingFan
Ice24
McSorleyFan
VCRW
DRice
dannybuoy1
sonnyboy11
HiFi
notbob
empire
symbology
motalare
Chateau Bow Wow
Nyssa42

FLA 4 goals (1 Point):
VegasHockey
Cross Traffic
McSorleyFan
Guinevere
dannybuoy1
randdog
Shackleford
notbob
empire
Nyssa42

15:28-16:28 2nd (3 points):
mugs
Nyssa42

14:58-16:58 2nd (2 points):
VegasHockey
VCRW
Chateau Bow Wow
symbology

13:58-17:58 2nd (1 point):
randdog
sonnyboy11
DRGinLBC
AngelEyes
KernCoKingFan
DRice

Congratulations to Nyssa42 for being the only poster to collect all 5 points available, only missing the time by 2 seconds to boot. 3 goals over 2 games, 4 over a 3 game road trip, I guess we should be happy they got 2 of 6 points? This team needs a slumpbuster in the worst possible way.

The Kings got 4 goals. 2 against the Cats and 2 against the Lightning.

 

[Nyssa42]

The Kings got 4 goals. 2 against the Cats and 2 against the Lightning.

I have pointed this put to Senor jammer and he will adjust.

 

[Guinevere]

I have pointed this put to Senor jammer and he will adjust.

No worries.. thank you.

 

[jammer06]

The Kings got 4 goals. 2 against the Cats and 2 against the Lightning.

Yeah I totally read that wrong this morning somehow

 

[Statue4Deano]

Hiller has made the team into counterpunchers, opportunists. I don’t see an offensive identity for this team either. And Hiller definitely supports the chaos with Fiala and QB leading the forwards in TOI. In the meantime, Juice has 7 more points than anyone else on the squad. Kempe became the team’s leading scorer by minimizing the uncontrolled elements in his game. There is time for Q to develop discipline, but Fiala is a lost cause.

I would love to see Fiala playing under a coach who knows how to use his skillset. Imagine what he could do in Colorado or Dallas…

When he’s on his game he’s a sparkplug. When he’s stuck in a rigid safety first system he ends up looking like he’s floating around waiting for a chance to make something happen in part because Hiller Hockey doesn’t allow for wingers to attack unless there’s a loose puck.

A passive gameplan makes our forwards look reactive and sloppy especially when our d-men aren’t meant to be puckmovers.

 

[Clif]

I would love to see Fiala playing under a coach who knows how to use his skillset. Imagine what he could do in Colorado or Dallas…

When he’s on his game he’s a sparkplug. When he’s stuck in a rigid safety first system he ends up looking like he’s floating around waiting for a chance to make something happen in part because Hiller Hockey doesn’t allow for wingers to attack unless there’s a loose puck.

A passive gameplan makes our forwards look reactive and sloppy especially when our d-men aren’t meant to be puckmovers.

Hiller’s plan is to neutralize the game so much he neutralizes his own team. It’s like nuclear suck.

Which has given me freedom to not care where they end up so long as he’s behind the bench. This is a mockery of the game when this style is played by an allegedly good team. Rebuilding team, any iteration of the Coyotes, fine. They have limited ability to compete.

 

[DarkLeftHand]

I would love to see Fiala playing under a coach who knows how to use his skillset. Imagine what he could do in Colorado or Dallas…

When he’s on his game he’s a sparkplug. When he’s stuck in a rigid safety first system he ends up looking like he’s floating around waiting for a chance to make something happen in part because Hiller Hockey doesn’t allow for wingers to attack unless there’s a loose puck.

A passive gameplan makes our forwards look reactive and sloppy especially when our d-men aren’t meant to be puckmovers.

With his propensity to take stupid penalties and stick infractions, do you actually trust him to aggressively forecheck? Furthermore, do you really think he has the hockey IQ to understand when east/west hockey is viable, rather than adhering to a simple directive for north/south hockey? He has got to be one of the worst forwards I’ve ever seen at offensive zone entry, with his habit of dangling just before, or right ON the blue line, often causing his own teammates to jump offside, losing possession to the opposition, or simply misreading the play, and himself jumping offside.

I think we’re now beginning to fully understand exactly why both the Preds and Wild were willing to move him along, even though he seems to be a great human being with some impressive hockey skills. I can’t say this for the majority of roster, but in Kevin’s particular case, I suspect it’s not on the coach.

 

[Statue4Deano]

With his propensity to take stupid penalties and stick infractions, do you actually trust him to aggressively forecheck? Furthermore, do you really think he has the hockey IQ to understand when east/west hockey is viable, rather than adhering to a simple directive for north/south hockey? He has got to be one of the worst forwards I’ve ever seen at offensive zone entry, with his habit of dangling just before, or right ON the blue line, often causing his own teammates to jump offside, losing possession to the opposition, or simply misreading the play, and himself jumping offside.

I think we’re now beginning to fully understand exactly why both the Preds and Wild were willing to move him along, even though he seems to be a great human being with some impressive hockey skills. I can’t say this for the majority of roster, but in Kevin’s particular case, I suspect it’s not on the coach.

Fiala is a very unique type of forward. We’ve seen the best and the worst of him and at his peak he’s a gamebreaker and he’s done it in the playoffs. When he’s off his game he’s unwatchable. There’s very little middle ground.

I don’t understand why Blake felt the need to add him to this roster when the directive from the top is rigid structure but now we’re stuck with him. I would rather bring in a new coach who can fix the power play and hope Fiala can find some consistency than stick with Hiller and wait for Fiala to disappear for weeks at a time.

 

[DarkLeftHand]

Fiala is a very unique type of forward. We’ve seen the best and the worst of him and at his peak he’s a gamebreaker and he’s done it in the playoffs. When he’s off his game he’s unwatchable. There’s very little middle ground.

I don’t understand why Blake felt the need to add him to this roster when the directive from the top is rigid structure but now we’re stuck with him. I would rather bring in a new coach who can fix the power play and hope Fiala can find some consistency than stick with Hiller and wait for Fiala to disappear for weeks at a time.

I suspect the reasoning was very much that they thought they could fix him. But that’s what you get with Kevin, the true double edged sword, and there just appears to be no fixing, after all.