Game Day Thread
Game #56/82 -- 02/24/25
>>7:30pm<<
on FanDuel
Vegas Golden Knights vs. Los Angeles Kings
Crypto.com Arena | Los Angeles, CA
Japanese Heritage Night
**Game Time 7:30pm**
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Radio: ESPN LA app only
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Drew Doughty (video), Alex Laferriere & Jim Hiller 2/22 Post-Game Quotes
Alex Laferriere
On his goal and if he thought Doughty was trying to hit him with a stretch pass or just clear
A little bit of both. I mean, I knew earlier in the shift he tried it and then I knew he was out there for quite a while, so I knew he was just going to try and get it out. I cheated a little bit, but luckily it paid off. We’ll act like it was meant to be.
On his assessment of the game tonight and getting the two points
I thought we just kept it simple was the main part. Obviously, they were going through the same thing, so you kind of just want to try limit mistakes and I think we definitely had a little too many mistakes, so I think just trying to clean that up for the future. Like Jimmy was saying before the game, I think the first four or five games out of the break, everybody’s going to be a little rusty, like the beginning of the season. As long as we can get to that game sooner than other teams, we’ll be in a good spot.
On getting a power-play goal and the effectiveness of the first PP tonight
The first one, we had really good puck movement. I think the second one, we kind of were fumbling it a little bit there, but I think that’ll happen sometimes. It was really nice to get on the board there.
On continuing to build chemistry on a line with Fiala and Byfield
Towards the end and there, when we were thrown together, we didn’t really have much practice time, so you kind of resort to the games to try and build chemistry and get a feel for each other. Now, I think since we had those practices coming back from break, we were able to learn from each other a little bit more in the practices and I think that translated well to the game.
Jim Hiller
On his takeaways from tonight’s game
I didn’t think the execution was great, that was the concern, but we skated really well early, then we kind of were hanging on. They didn’t have much through the first two periods, third period they were better than us and we were hanging on a little bit, but listen, we’ll take it. We’re not going to overanalyze it, the first one out of the gate. We weren’t bad, but we always want more.
On Drew Doughty’s performance tonight
It was clearly his best game. I thought the first game that he really looked like himself. We ran him quite a bit before he left, he didn’t look completely comfortable. I thought tonight he really looked comfortable. I thought Drew was as good as I can even remember, even going back to last year, that would have been one of his probably his top 10 games.
On another strong showing from Kevin Fiala
Yeah, he was dangerous, right? Really dangerous. The one on the back end, he hit the post. We’ve talked about Kevin quite a bit. I think we’re going to see……we’ve seen flashes over two seasons, or two and a half seasons now, of him being a really, really consistent, dangerous threat. I think we’ll see that the rest of the way.
On Alex Laferriere’s play, both the goal and his hustle
There’s a lot of things that happened over the course of the game, some nice goals, nice plays, everything, but that’s probably the moment that sticks out for me. That’s a player that you’re like, YEAH, you know what I mean? That’s one of those moments where you’re like, that’s impressive. That time of the clock, that effort, draws a penalty out of the whole thing. I don’t know what to say but I’ll tell you what, coaches notice something like that.
On the distribution of minutes on the blueline tonight among the Top 4 defensemen
I don’t know, I mean, there’ll be times that [Drew] gets that, I think we ran him pretty hard before, but Mikey was out. Mikey and Gavy have been playing 25, 27 on different nights. I think you’ll just see Smitty spread those a little bit more between them but I don’t think you’ll see one guy at 28 and the other guys at 18, 19, 20. I think they’ll probably be a little bit more balanced than we’ve seen in past years.
On Brandt Clarke’s minutes on the other end of the 7D
It’s hard with seven D. It’s hard to balance the minutes with seven D, because unfortunately one guy’s there as a support and depending on the game plays out, there’s just different things that can happen within the game. Sometimes the downside of seven is if you play one guy too much, then you play somebody else [less], so now you’ve got two guys, maybe three, that are out of their rhythm, so it becomes okay, who’s going better? You want to keep one guy in better rhythm than the other guy. Tonight, that’s just the way it shook out.
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**Today’s Poll Question Game**
Part 1 - Same as last game: How many TOTAL POINTS by all DMen in tonight's game?
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Part 2 - In the previous 2 meetings between these teams, the winning team has scored 6 goals.
How many Goals will be scored by the WINNING TEAM in tonight's game?
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PREVIOUS GAME'S WINNERS
Congratulations to jammer06, who was the only person to correctly guess that there would be 3 Power Play Goals in the previous game. No one guessed that the Dmen would total a whopping 8 points.
POLL GAME WIN TOTALS
King of the Mountain - 47 points
Rusty
46 pts
Vegas Hockey
44 pts
sonnyboy11
42 pts
Chateau Bow Wow
40 pts
Cross Traffic
Liz4LA
VCRW
39 pts
Byron
38 pts
Forum Gold
Hockey 53
mugs
37 pts
Sir JW
36 pts
Drum4Pigs
HiFi
35 pts
JayWells24
34 pts
Dr. Tran
Guinevere
KernCoKingsFan
Nyssa42
pray4mojo
33 pts
DRice
empire
hornman
jammer06
32 pts
Angel Eyes
Rogie-Vachon
30 pts
CIrvine
Shackleford
29 pts
Kingsmen93
27 pts
randdog
26 pts
Clif
dannybuoy1
25 pts
Rog or Reg?
23 pts
notbob
TooCool
21 pts
RinkRat
18 pts
DRGinLBC
mik999999
15 pts
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
kurisu
2 pts
JC6388LAKings
symbology
The longest 2 weeks ever. Go Kings Go!!
