Game Day Thread
Game #8/82 -- 10/24/24
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7:30pm on Fan Duel
San Jose Sharks vs. Los Angeles Kings
Crypto.com Arena | Los Angeles, CA
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FAN FEST OPENS AT 4:00pm
Last Season's Meetings
04/04/24 -- Kings 2, Sharks 1
01/22/24 -- Sharks 4, Kings 3 (SO)
12/27/23 -- Sharks 1, Kings 5
12/19/23 -- Kings 4, Sharks 1
**Game Time 7:30pm**
TV: **Fan Duel (formerly Ballys)**
Radio: ESPN LA - app only
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Trevor Moore (video), Mikey Anderson, and Jim Hiller 10/22 Post-Game Quotes
Mikey Anderson
On a disappointing loss tonight
Yeah, it just wasn’t our night, but we’ll get home, get a day off tomorrow and we’ll regroup and come back ready to go.
On Vegas winning the battles in front of the net throughout the game
They’re really good in front of their own net, for one, I think we had chances and they just ended up getting a stick on it or making a save. And on the flip side, they’ve got some big bodies up front that found a way to get touches on pucks, make a couple plays and score it. I think that didn’t help us, obviously, as we could have used a few to go our way, but something we can learn from, compare it to the other two and see what we need to fix.
On the breakdowns tonight on the penalty kill
I think we were trying to do the right things, maybe just not as tight as we were the last couple games. You give up one, you might tighten up a little bit, get loose. We can watch it, figure it out. They obviously had a plan of what they wanted to do, too, so tip your hat to them, but I think as a kill, no one was happy with it. We know we’ve got to be better.
On not dictating matchups with 7 straight road games, and finally heading home
That’s part of the way the game is, you get the advantage of being home. We just go out and play, but coaches can try and do what they think is best to help the team, put certain guys against their guys. So, on the road it gets tough, just because you’ve got to throw them out and try and pick it up on the fly. Obviously everyone loves being at home, you get the fans you get last change, a lot of benefits you can get from it.
Jim Hiller
On not being able to follow up 2 strong defensive games tonight
We started the game all right and we broke down a couple times on the penalty kill. I think that really took some momentum away. The puck found a way to land on their stick a few times, we were not strong enough in front of our net. I don’t know that there was a lot of breakdowns, outside of we let our guy go and he tapped one in from six inches. Funny game. We got our chances. It wasn’t a a 6-1 game, but that’s what the scoreboard reads and we have to accept it.
On allowing two power-play goals in the first period, setting the team back early
We had a meeting, that first one, they got a break away early, got us on our toes. We had had a meeting, we knew what they were going to do. They executed, we did not. Then there were a couple others, one tipped off, I think Hertl’s stick and then went over and tipped off Stone’s stick. Those are pretty good players, to be able to knock the puck out of there on the double tap like that. So, some of them, you can’t do anything about, you just tip your hat to them.
On if there is a growing concern in being able to defend against higher-skilled teams
No, I mean, it’s a fair comment, but I don’t know that there’s a theme there yet or not. Those teams have good offensive players and they can burn you if give them the opportunity. I thought they were pretty opportunistic on their chances. I don’t know how many chances they had, but they’re good shooters, they made good plays and they finished when they had to, there’s no question. Not much we can do about it now, take a rest and go home.
On Warren Foegele’s game tonight
Yeah, his best game for sure. I mean, just that line, they continue to play pretty well, all three of them together, they’re dangerous, hungry, tenacious and I think there’s probably some guys on our team that could probably, as they’re sitting on the bench watching, take a page out of their notebook, because I think we’re lacking that with some of our players.
On his takeaways as a whole from the seven-game trip
Well, I think if you look at it, you would say if you can come out of that .500, you’re probably not doing too bad, but it’s always disappointing. We had a chance tonight to really have a great trip, really, [it would have been] 4-1-2. We don’t, but we’ll take the record. There was a lot of positive stuff, there a few things, tonight, we’ve seen that we have to do better. If you don’t do it better, you lose on the road. All-in-all, we’ll accept it and move forward.
Subject to Change
Lineups Courtesy of DailyFaceoff.com
KINGS INJURIES
Drew Doughty - LTIR
Arthur Kaliyev - (collarbone)
Darcy Kuemper - IR LBI
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SHARKS PROBABLE LINEUP
Former Kings
Carl Grundstrom
Tyler Toffoli
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GOALIE COMPARISON
PLAYERS TO WATCH
(stats from last 5 games)
PACIFIC DIVISION STANDINGS
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**Today’s Poll Question Game**
Part 1 - Which player is going to score the FIRST KINGS HOME GOAL in tonight's game?
You can take 4 guesses
(you can guess "no goals" as one of your guesses)
Part 2 - In which period will the Game Winning Goal be scored?
(1, 2, 3, OT, SO - one guess only)
Take your best guesses in your post below.
The only prize is the glory of seeing your name in the next GDT if you get it right.
PREVIOUS GAME'S WINNERS
Congratulations to the following posters who correctly guessed within +/- 1 of 12 combined PIM and/or that Foegle would be credited with the final goal of the road trip:
Both dead on 12 and Foegle (3 points):
mugs
TooCool
12 PIM (2 Points):
VegasHockey
DRice
mik999999
JayWells24
Guinevere
jammer06
DRGinLBC
VCRW
CIrvine
empire
sonnyboy11
JETS GARAGE
Dr. Tran
Shackleford
Nyssa42
beady eye
KernCoKingFan
Byron
Foegle (1 Point):
Clif
forum gold
AngelEyes
pray4mojo
POLL GAME WIN TOTALS
King of the Mountain - 9 points
VegasHockey
8 pts
forum gold
Rusty
VCRW
7 pts
CIrvine
beady eye
mugs
sonnyboy11
6 pts
Byron
Dr. Tran
jammer06
notbob
Shackleford
TooCool
5 pts
Clif
Cross Traffic
dannybuoy1
DRice
Hockey 53
JayWells24
KernCoKingsFan
Liz4LA
mik999999
pray4mojo
Rogie-Vachon
4 pts
Bill Hicks
Chateau Bow Wow
DRGinLBC
Drum4Pigs
empire
Guinevere
JETS GARAGE
Kingsmen93
Nyssa42
3 pts
randdog
RinkRat
Sir JW
2 pts
HiFi
symbology
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