Game Day Thread
Game #57/82 -- 02/26/25
>>7:00pm<<
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Vancouver Canucks vs. Los Angeles Kings
Crypto.com Arena | Los Angeles, CA
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**Game Time 7:00pm**
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Moore (video), Byfield & Hiller 2/24 Post-Game Quotes
Quinton Byfield
On his takeaways from tonight’s win
I think the first period was pretty even, then in the second period, they were all over us. We just felt like that wasn’t our best hockey, we weren’t playing what we do. They were beating us in every puck battle, they were playing simple and we weren’t. We just wanted to kind of simplify things and get back to our hockey. Our coach came in and he said that’s a top three team over there potential playoff opponent too, so we just had to step up. Everybody did that.
On a career high four assists
It’s a long season, there’s a bunch of ups and downs, but my recent play has been a lot better, I think. Just the chemistry that me and Kev have is really building, we’re clicking right now. It’s just hockey is fun right now and we’re just trying to play our best.
On adding Adrian Kempe to his line
I think Juice is one of the most underrated players in NHL. Just being able to get him on our line, he plays a 200 foot game, plays the game right way, he’s hard, just utilizing his speed as well, very quick player and he plays simple as well. Just playing with those two guys, high-skill guys, you kind of just want to get them the puck, and we feed up each other.
On seeing Trevor Moore score a big goal for the team
Yeah, that’s huge. Mooresie, the last couple of years, has been so effective for us and not just that, when he’s in the zone, making his tight turns and just taking it to the net, and using that quick snapshot……and a lot of last year he was doing off the rush. Just to see him just fire that puck and have it go in was a good feeling for our team.
Jim Hiller
On if tonight’s game felt like a playoff-type atmosphere
Yeah, it was a hard game. I thought we came out pretty well, even though we weren’t really dangerous, to be honest with you. I mean, the power play goal was nice, it was important. 2nd period they took us to the schoolyard, that was pretty obvious for all of us, faster, stronger, more competitive. So, we had to decide, are we just going to let them take it from us? Clearly, the guys had a pretty good response.
On Trevor Moore getting the game-tying goal in a vintage Trevor Moore way
I think [last season] he had probably 10 to 12 coming down the wing, not always on the strong side, where he just shot it past the goalie. We just haven’t seen that from him this year. It was just great to see. So now he’s got two and hopefully that spurs him on a little bit, but it was the goal that he scored, over and over again last year.
On Quinton Byfield’s four-assist night
It was a hard game, it’s hard to stand out. I thought the tail end of the second period, he really got going. The backhand pass to Foegs was about as good as you can make it, so it was nice to see that it wasn’t just work, because we always expect that from him, it was just an incredible pass. Nice to see. We needed somebody to step up and he was the guy.
On moving Kempe with Byfield and Fiala in the 2nd and 3rd periods
We were moving around the lines around quite a bit in the second period, and they just happened to have a chance to go together and I thought they had a spark. So, we got them up there again, they had a spark again. They made a big difference and looked really good doing it. So, I don’t know if we’ll see it again, next game, or whenever, I’m sure at some point, but we’ll talk about it as a coaching staff.
On the message between the 2nd and 3rd periods
I thought our team had to kind of work within a little bit and decide what the third period was going to look like. Nobody expected to come out and just score four goals but I think we expected……they kicked sand in our face, I felt like okay, we’re here to play after the first period and we’re just going to let them continue to do that, or were we going to push back a little bit? When I say push back, that’s stronger on our sticks, more aggressive, quicker and we had that response, or the players had that response. It’s pretty impressive.
On he feels the biggest hole on the team right now is the LW spot with Kopitar/Kempe
Yeah, I mean that line with Turc or whoever it’s been, really haven’t got a lot of traction lately. I don’t like to say it’s a hole, but we were just trying to get that line, who carried us in many ways for the first half of the season, to just get some traction again and get feeling good about their game, some consistent time in the o-zone, some chances. It just hasn’t happened a lot lately. So, that’s the reason to move things around a little bit.
Lineups Courtesy of DailyFaceoff.com
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**Today’s Poll Question Game**
TONIGHT STARTS 27 GAMES IN 51 DAYS, so there are gonna be a lot of easy-to-tally, 1-part questions for my & jammer's sanity.
Who is going to score the game-winning goal tonight?
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PREVIOUS GAME'S WINNERS
Congratulations to the following posters who correctly guessed 5 combined points by the D and/or that the winning team would score 5 goals:
Both (2 points):
Hockey53
Forum Gold
Chateau Bow Wow
Cross Traffic
Rusty
KernCoKingFan
JayWells24
kingsmen93
Dr. Tran
D 5 points (1 point):
Rogie-Vachon
motalare
randdog
VCRW
Shackleford
dannybuoy1
SirJW
HiFi
Liz4LA
CIrvine
5 Goals (1 point):
AngelEyes
DRGinLBC
Guinevere
DRice
jammer06
Rog or Reg?
Nyssa42
POLL GAME WIN TOTALS
King of the Mountain - 49 points
Rusty
46 pts
Vegas Hockey
44 pts
Chateau Bow Wow
sonnyboy11
42 pts
Cross Traffic
41 pts
Liz4LA
VCRW
40 pts
Forum Gold
Hockey 53
39 pts
Byron
38 pts
mugs
Sir JW
37 pts
HiFi
JayWells24
36 pts
Dr. Tran
Drum4Pigs
KernCoKingsFan
35 pts
Guinevere
Nyssa42
34 pts
DRice
jammer06
pray4mojo
33 pts
Angel Eyes
empire
hornman
Rogie-Vachon
31 pts
CIrvine
Kingsmen93
Shackleford
28 pts
randdog
27 pts
dannybuoy1
26 pts
Clif
Rog or Reg?
23 pts
notbob
TooCool
21 pts
RinkRat
19 pts
DRGinLBC
18 pts
mik999999
16 pts
motolare
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