Game Day Thread
Game #11/82 -- 10/30/24
7:00pm
on
Vegas Golden Knights vs. Los Angeles Kings
Crypto.com Arena | Los Angeles, CA
Previous Meeting
10/22/24 -- Kings 1, Golden Knights 6
**Game Time 7:00pm**
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Phillip Danault (video), Akil Thomas & Jim Hiller 10/29 Post-Game Quotes
Akil Thomas
On if he felt the Kings underestimated San Jose tonight
I don’t think we underestimated them, I think we knew they were going to come out hard. I don’t think we had our best game, but I don’t think we underestimated them. I just think we weren’t our best and they played pretty good.
On a last-minute change from 4C to RW2
You know, that’s the way I’ve tried to describe myself, is being just a Swiss-army knife and to be able to address those situations. So, if anything, I was just trying to make sure, because I was preparing to play center. I was playing wing tonight and I just wanted to make sure I kind of knew what we were doing, wing-wise, off of draws and just everything like that. I think little adjustments right before the game, I asked DJ to do some video, so I did that and it was fine.
On scoring in his season debut
Yeah, for sure. Felt really good. You know, it was kind of weird playing the first time in a few weeks, so first period I didn’t really feel amazing, and I felt better as the shifts went on.
On coming up short tonight against a divisional rival
I think, for tomorrow, we definitely want to come out strong, we’re not happy though tonight. I think, on the other side, next time we play these guys, I’m sure we’re going to want to come out hard, because you remember this one, for sure.
Jim Hiller
On his takeaways from tonight’s game
We didn’t start at all, took two penalties in the first five minutes, got on our heels. Give them a ton of credit, they came and did what they do, came and worked, right? Second period, we got ourselves going a little bit and then third period, they made big plays when they needed to, and we made a couple of poor plays that direct(ly) result in goals.
On the team’s struggles on the power play tonight and where he’d place them
Start with giving them credit, but we had a couple looks, but just not crisp. The whole game we weren’t crisp, we didn’t make a lot of consecutive passes on the tape, skate, we didn’t have a lot of that going on. That probably led into the power play.
On lessons learned from tonight, with a stern back-to-back test tomorrow vs. Vegas
Better be ready to play from the start, from the start of the opening faceoff, I think that’s really the only lesson. Put it behind us, but we’ve got to make sure we’re ready from the start of the faceoff. You get two penalties in the first five minutes, you pretty much take probably six or seven guys right out of the game for 20 minutes or so, because they have to sit there, from the warmups some guys didn’t even get a shift. We can’t do that.
On Akil Thomas’ game tonight and how he adjusted to a last-minute change
He did good. I would have rather had him, after not playing for close to a month, play on the wing, rather than playing center, so that was probably better for him coming in, a little less responsibility, get your legs back under you. He did a good job. Scored again, scored his first goal of his career in this building here last year. Yeah, no issues there, he did a good job.
On changing up lines in the third period and if anything jumped out from that
No, I don’t think anything jumped out. We didn’t have a lot going on at 5-on-5 anyways, so that led to the change. I didn’t think that there was anything that really jumped out at us.
Subject to Change
Lineups Courtesy of DailyFaceoff.com
KINGS INJURIES
Drew Doughty - LTIR
Arthur Kaliyev - (collarbone)
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GOLDEN KNIGHTS PROBABLE LINEUP
Former Kings
Ben Hutton
Brayden McNabb
Tanner Pearson
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