Game Day Thread
Game #16/82 -- 11/9/24
>>6:00pm<<
on KCAL Ch9 & FanDuel
710AM
Columbus Blue Jackets vs. LA Kings
Crypto.com Arena | Los Angeles, CA
Salute to Service Night
Last Season's Meetings
02/20/24 -- Blue Jackets 1, Kings 5
12/05/23 -- Kings 4, Blue Jackets 3
**Game Time 6:00pm**
TV: KCAL Ch9 & FanDuel
Radio: ESPN LA 710AM
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Edmundson (video), Foegele & Hiller 11/7 Post-Game Quotes
Warren Foegele
On his takeaways from tonight’s game
That was two hard teams that fought pretty hard there. It was a good hockey game and, you know, we just came up short there, but I thought it was a pretty competitive game. Unfortunately, they won the special teams, and that can kind of be a difference winning hockey games.
On the physicality in tonight’s game
It was probably much closer to a playoff game than most of the other games we’ve had this year, but these are two good teams, competing hard for the division. I’m sure we will see them a lot more, further down the road. So it’s a competitive game and give them credit, but I thought we had a pretty good game as well.
On going down to 11 forwards early and how the group managed that
Yeah, obviously it’s not ideal. I think it just gives guys more of an opportunity to take on more ice time and I thought, honestly, the whole group played pretty well. They had their push and we were pushing too. I think on the power play, there’s chances I think we’d like to bear down on and maybe it’s a different game, right? But, like I said, it was a competitive game.
On seeing Quinton Byfield score again, after getting his first on Tuesday
They always say the first one is always the hardest, and for him, you could definitely tell he was gripping the stick pretty tight, so it’s really nice to see him get one last game. Today, you know, a little bit more relaxed and he finished on his chance. That’s the Q we know, works really hard, has high-end skill and logs a lot of minutes for this team. He’s an important piece for us.
Jim Hiller
On Vancouver “beating the Kings at their own game”
I thought they were a little bit quicker to pucks and a little bit stronger once they got there. It’s an even game, but I thought they were a little bit quicker and a little stronger once they arrived. It’s not something we want to take pride in, we’re trying to be that team, so give them full marks for that.
On managing a team that ran with 11 forwards and 5 defensemen for a big part of tonight’s game
You’d never like to be down, but we played a lot with seven last year, down to five defensemen, we saw Juice back there and Phil went back there a little bit, 4-on-4, so we just have to do it.... You’d like to be fresh when you’re doing that, I don’t think we were completely fresh, or as fresh as we would have liked to be tonight, so that makes it a little harder.
On establishing flow in a game with players out and a ton of special teams time
In the first period, for sure. They had seven minutes of power play, we had four, I believe, so that’s pretty much whole special teams. You’ve got a group of guys that play a lot and a group of guys that don’t get on the ice at all. So really, no flow for the first but then we started fresh in the second.
On the test tonight of a physical game
I thought the Nashville game was pretty physical, so I would say this is maybe the second most physical game. Yeah, I mean, we came out on the short end of it, so it wasn’t good enough. I think losing Tanner early was a big part of that, we could have used him in a heavy game like this for the full 60, so that probably hurt us maybe more than we know.
On the team’s play in the third period
We’re down, so we’re pressing a little bit and they defended well, give them credit, they didn’t take a lot of risk in the third, so there wasn’t a lot of room there. We made some plays that were probably not high percentage. I thought we probably could have thrown a few more just right at the net, at the pads, and try to just get something. It wasn’t going for us, as far as connecting a nice passing play, so that was probably disappointing as far as that goes, that we didn’t just get a little bit more direct there.
Subject to Change
Lineups Courtesy of DailyFaceoff.com
KINGS INJURIES
Drew Doughty - LTIR
Arthur Kaliyev - (collarbone)
Alex Turcotte (D2D)
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BLUE JACKETS PROBABLE LINEUP
Former King
Jack Johnson
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Part 1 - What will the Final Score of the game be? (just the numbers, doesn't matter which team)
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Part 2 - Who will score the Game Winning Goal?
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PREVIOUS GAME'S WINNERS
Congratulations to the following posters who correctly guessed that 6 points would be accredited to the American players in the previous game:
Drum4Pigs
forum gold
Byron
Guinevere
Rusty
Clif
VegasHockey
sonnyboy11
mik999999
VCRW
Rogie-Vachon
POLL GAME WIN TOTALS
King of the Mountain - 19 points
VegasHockey
16 pts
Rusty
VCRW
13pts
Hockey 53
sonnyboy11
11 pts
Forum Gold
10pts
Clif
Dr. Tran
DRice
Drum4Pigs
KernCoKingsFan
9 pts
Cross Traffic
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mik999999
mugs
8 pts
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Byron
CIrvine
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Rogie-Vachon
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7 pts
hornman
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Shackleford
6 pts
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5 pts
Angel Eyes
Sir JW
4 pts
Bill Hicks
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3 pts
RinkRat
2 pts
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