Game Day Thread
Game #2/82 - 10/8/25
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Los Angeles Kings @ Vegas Golden Knights
T-Mobile Arena | Las Vegas, NV
**Game Time 7:00pm**
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Drew Doughty & Jim Hiller 10/7 Post-Game Quotes
Drew Doughty
On his impressions from tonight’s defeat
First was, I thought, pretty even didn’t really have much either way and then the penalties just added up for us. Actually, penalty kill was really, really good today, we weren’t giving them a ton of looks and then eventually too many. That’s one of the best PP’s in the league, so yeah, that hurt us. Second period wasn’t good enough, kind of were on our heels. We were turning the puck over too much, they’re getting a lot of speed off turnovers and 3-on-2’s and stuff that hurt us. I mean, good response in the third, but too little too late.
On what he might consider to be a positive takeaway from tonight’s game, if there is one
I thought we responded well in the third, but like I said, too little too late, but we definitely played well in the third. Started doing the right things, drawing some penalties, started getting some opportunities. I did think at times we did defend well and I do think the PK was good. Overall, definitely not even close to good enough, but there are definitely some good things there.
On the speed of the game early and adjusting to an opening night
I mean, it’s a first game and honestly, in the first period, it feels like everything is happening so fast. Even for myself, playing so long, I’m a calm, poised player and things were happening so fast, just the adrenaline is going, both teams are flying around. The first period is hard to plan for either team.
On how he feels physically coming out of tonight’s game
I felt great tonight, I was moving well. I felt the best I’ve felt in that year. [Reporter – Are you are your pre-injury level?]. I’ll be there. I’m not going to say that I played at that level tonight, but I’ll be there.
Jim Hiller
On if there are any positives to be drawn from a game like that
I don’t think you can draw too many that you can point to, a player or to a part of our game. I guess the penalty kill, you give that team six power plays, to hold them to one is actually probably a pretty good job in the end, if you want to look at one part of the game. Clearly you can’t give them six and then think you did well, you’re not going to win that way.
On the impact of penalties on the game
That always disrupts you, for sure, but I didn’t think there was a lot of flow to the game really, from either team, particularly in the second period. First period it was mucky but it was kind of a pretty well played game. What they did really well, what they did better than us, is they checked us better than we did and we usually check pretty good, so credit to them. They really put a strong checking game, didn’t give us much time and space and we needed somebody to either one, get a good forecheck going and just try to create something ugly down there, or, two, make a play, and we were really not able to do either of those.
On what Colorado did well to disrupt the way the Kings wanted to play
I’ll say Colorado tracked us hard, didn’t give us a lot of time and space and we tried to make way too many passes under that type of duress. You hear us talk about this a lot, we had to forecheck more. We just had to forecheck more. It was all we were going to be able to get tonight. You could see the way they were skating and I think we passed up opportunities to do that and that’s why we looked even more disconnected.
On not wanting to overreact to one game, but also holding a subpar performance accountable
That was not a good game for us, but I don’t want to take away from how well Colorado played here tonight, you know what I mean, so let’s give them the credit that they’re due and say that we need to play better than we did. We’ll bounce back tomorrow, that’s just what we do, that’s how the league works.
On his impressions of the Dumoulin/Ceci pairing
I mean, I thought they were fine. If you look at the goals, we came back into d-zone, we didn’t stop once and close the middle, that’s not on either defenseman. The other one was a seeing-eye shot a little bit, Malinski’s goal, and then you got Necas on the power play. So there wasn’t a player that missed an assignment, there was a couple as a group where we missed an assignment, we had two or three guys not stopped in front of the net, disappointed in that. I thought, up and down the lineup, there’s nobody who really stood out for me in a real positive way or negative.
On seeing some spark in Brandt Clarke’s game late
You know, for all the really good things Clarkie does, one probably we don’t talk enough about is how competitive he is. So Clarkie, he’s not going to go away, he plays hard, he’s in the middle of it.
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