Game Day Thread
Game #62/82 -- 03/08/25
>>5:00pm<<
on FanDuel
St. Louis Blues vs. Los Angeles Kings
Crypto.com Arena | Los Angeles, CA
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**Game Time 5:00pm**
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Quinton Byfield (video), Darcy Kuemper, & Jim Hiller 3/5 Post-Game Quotes
Darcy Kuemper
On collecting a point at home coming off an 0-3-0 trip
Yeah, I mean tonight felt different, it felt more like how we want to play for most of the game there. It was a step in the right direction, but obviously that’s not the result we were looking for.
On the team’s defensive game tonight, cleaning things up after the roadtrip
I think that’s something we pride ourselves on. I think we made some good corrections in that area and it obviously kept us in a tight game that we just weren’t able to close up.
On the penalty-kill performance in tonight’s game
I thought it looked more like how we wanted to. It actually did for most of the road trip, it looked good again. You don’t want to be giving teams too many opportunities, that was probably the case with four in the first two periods, but I thought overall, we did a good job there.
On how he approaches shootout situations
I’m just trying to stop the puck. We haven’t had too many of them this year, so it’s kind of funny how those go sometimes. You get on a roll in them and then sometimes you don’t. I just go out there and try to face each shooter the same way.
Jim Hiller
On his assessment of tonight’s game overall
I thought it was good hockey game. For those of you who haven’t seen them yet, we saw them last week live, it’s a pretty good team who is playing really well. So, I thought it was a good game. We battled, both teams missed some pretty good chances, I thought both goaltenders played well. Then the shootout, they got us there.
On his level of worry or concern with the state of the team right now
We always want to be better. I don’t know if there’s one thing. It’s hard, it’s a challenging time for us and we’ve just got to keep going, sticking together. I didn’t like the penalties tonight. If there’s one that you want me to be concerned, to worry about one thing. With the Lewis penalty and Fiala’s penalty, both terrible penalties.
On scoring two or fewer goals in five straight games
We’d like to score more, for sure. We’ve talked about it, I talked about it this morning, we had a lot of chances in Chicago and we came up short. I thought the St Louis game we had a fair amount of chances too, to convert around the net. I won’t say it’s always going to be a challenge for us, but I think it’s 60 games in and we don’t score a ton, that’s obvious. If you’re not going to score a ton, you can’t give up much. I don’t think that trying to play a different way is going to help us score more. I think we generate kind of as a five-man unit. I don’t think there’s one guy that just goes out and leads that charge by himself, so that’s a team game on offense.
On Quinton Byfield’s game and impact tonight
I thought Q was really good, maybe our best player, I don’t know, we’ll have to look at it a lot closer than just standing there and catching it in real time, but he had the big hit, right? If you go back into Chicago, he had two big hits in that game, he took one too, but I think we’re starting to see him just dominate a little bit. He’s got to be a physical player because he has that attribute. Confidence, skating, I thought he handled the puck and then the 3-on-3, he was dangerous. It’s an evolution and I think we’re seeing some really good strides from him.
On the team’s execution on odd-man rushes and not getting enough shots on goal in those situations
They all develop a little bit differently. There’s so much timing and space and what do you have and lots of different things involved. In the end, the player has to make the best choice and execute. That’s not a coaching thing. Kevin will probably look at that, Q will look at that, they might talk after that, but they’re there in that moment. They see what they see and it just comes down to executing.
On his evaluation of Brandt Clarke’s game tonight
I thought he was good, I thought he had good intensity. Again, that’s a tough opponent there and yeah, I thought he was really good. It was a really good step for him.
Subject to Change
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except to their pride
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**Today’s Poll Question Game**
**I might not have time to do all the poll winner updates with the back to back before tomorrow's game
Part 1 - Who will score the FIRST KINGS goal in tonight's game?
Part 2 - Who will score the FIRST BLUES goal in tonight's game?
you can take 4 guesses per part
one of your guesses can be "no goals"
(don't forget the 3-game question is still in play as well)
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 +/- 2 of 24 SOG for the Kings and/or 30 SOG for the Blues:
Blues 30 SOG (3 points):
Drum4Pigs
Forum Gold
Rogie-Vachon
Blues 29,31 SOG (2 points):
KernCoKingFan
randdog
kingsmen93
Shackleford
HiFi
mugs
28,32 (1 point):
SirJW
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pray4mojo
Dr. Tran
McSorleyFan
Rusty
Guinevere
hornman
Chateau Bow Wow
Kings 24 SOG (3 points):
KernCoKingFan
Kings 23,25 SOG (2 points):
Hockey53
TooCool
Kings 22,26 SOG (1 point):
CIrvine
POLL GAME WIN TOTALS
King of the Mountain - 54 points
Rusty
48 pts
Vegas Hockey
45 pts
Chateau Bow Wow
sonnyboy11
44 pts
Cross Traffic
Forum Gold
Hockey 53
43 pts
KernCoKingsFan
Liz4LA
VCRW
41 pts
mugs
40 pts
Byron
Drum4Pigs
Guinevere
HiFi
Sir JW
39 pts
JayWells24
KernCoKingsFan
Kingsmen93
37 pts
Dr. Tran
Nyssa42
pray4mojo
Rogie-Vachon
36 pts
Angel Eyes
DRice
empire
jammer06
35 pts
hornman
Shackleford
34 pts
randdog
33 pts
CIrvine
30 pts
dannybuoy1
27 pts
Clif
notbob
Rog or Reg?
25 pts
TooCool
23 pts
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21 pts
DRGinLBC
18 pts
mik999999
motolare
14 pts
JETS GARAGE
12 pts
beady eye
7 pts
KHenry14
6 pts
Surf Nutz
5 pts
sloppydog
4 pts
Bill Hicks
ICE24
3 pts
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2 pts
JC6388LAKings
McSorleyFan
symbology
1 pt
Cannon
Sevenhole
ucsdguy1
Laffy,Foegele,Kempe,M.Anderson
