Game Day Thread
Game #43/82 - 1/9/26
>>5:00pm<<
on FanDuel
Los Angeles Kings @ Winnipeg Jets
Canada Life Centre | Winnipeg, MB
**Game Time 5:00pm**
TV: FanDuel
Radio: ESPN LA app, Kings app, & Sirius
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Kevin Fiala & Jim Hiller 1/7 Post-Game Quotes
Kevin Fiala
On the team’s play early and what he was disappointed in with tonight’s game
We were not really ready, to be honest. The last two games especially, I think we were ready from the get go, we’re a little more straight line, we’re hunting guys. Today was a little bit more casual, East/West, they caught some pucks, little turnovers here and there. It was not crisp.
On Alex Turcotte’s play tonight and how he’s risen to the opportunity of late
It’s very nice. He deserves it. He’s a great player. You can see it, he’s getting rewarded, he’s always working hard every day since I got here, winning battles, doing those little things, making plays. He’s just a reliable player and I’m very, very happy for him. He’s getting the chance now to play more and he’s playing better. Very excited for him.
On his line stepping up with several forwards out of the lineup
It sucks to have those guys out, but other guys have to step up. There’s no one line show, one man show, it’s a team thing. I think they did a good job, the new guys here, they did an amazing job in my opinion. It’s not easy to come in and make an impact right away. We’re missing a lot of guys, it’s not just one guy or two guys, and important guys too – everybody’s important, but you know what I mean. Happy for them to get one under their belt. It’s too bad we couldn’t get the win. On to the next one.
On the five-player connection with his line and the Edmundson/Clarke pairing
Those two guys are very good, two different guys, one very good defensively, one maybe better offensively, so it gives us a great balance. Eddy’s shot is amazing as well, so we have always his one timer. Clarkie is creative, going down the wall and doing some give-and-go’s and stuff like that. It’s too bad his goal didn’t count, but otherwise, great chemistry.
Jim Hiller
On the disallowed goal tonight
It’s kind of a unique situation. They said it went off his glove, it was gloved in. I said it’s one of two things. The puck was going in anyways, the puck was going in, until he got cross checked into the crease, which caused him to bump the puck off his glove. If he doesn’t get cross checked, the momentum the puck is taking it into the net. So, if you don’t want to call it goal, you better call it a cross check. It’s one of the two. I thought that was pretty easy.
On what he felt was missing in the game for the Kings, especially early
We turned the puck over a lot. We did so well in Minnesota, went to the goal and you guys saw it, we threw pucks at the net, where we buzz with two and three guys at the netfront, jamming it. Today we’re trying to get it off the rush and turning it over and they were racing back at us. We just didn’t, for whatever reasons, didn’t play the game that we have to play.
On another strong offensive showing from the Fiala/Turcotte/Kuzmenko line
We’ve relied on them a fair amount, I think, over the last little while, pretty much ever since they’ve been put together. They were dangerous. They turned a few over early too, but you saw in the third period, they played in the offensive zone and we didn’t get a lot of that by the other lines until Laf’s goal. Those guys were in there pretty consistently. They got the o-zone faceoffs, Turc’s doing a good doing a good job winning them and they’re making something happen.
On allowing two power-play goals and the penalties taken tonight
It’s been a theme, we’ve taken too many minor penalties all year. Take a bad penalty in the third period and then they make us pay. We’re down to probably four regular penalty killers, one of the penalty killers takes a penalty, we’re down to three and so we’ve got Turc out there, Malott had to go. You can’t take that many penalties and put that penalty kill under that much duress.
Lineups Courtesy of DailyFaceoff.com
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JETS PROBABLE LINEUP
Former Kings
Alex Iafallo
Colin Miller (Draft Pick)
Tanner Pearson
Luke Schenn
Gabriel Vilardi
(and Kale Clague is on their AHL team now)
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GOALTENDING COMPARISON
PACIFIC DIVISION STANDINGS
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**POLL QUESTION GAME**
Part 1 - In both previous meetings, the winning team scored 3 goals. How many total goals (including SO goal if needed) will the WINNING team score tonight?
You can take 2 guesses for Part 1
Part 2 - How many TOTAL POINTS will be score by all players who have played NHL games for both the Kings & the Jets?
YOU CAN TAKE 2 GUESSES FOR PART 2
Iafallo, Pearson, Schenn, Vilardi
Armia (injured), & Malott (1 game)
and, yes, I did do this same question - twice! - when we played the Jets earlier in the season
PREVIOUS GAME'S WINNERS
Congratulations to the following posters who correctly guessed that Toffoli and/or Eklund
would be credited with the first and last goals of the game:
Both (2 Points):
Clif
Birdman
DRice
RoS
motalare
TooCool
Toffoli (1 point):
Rogie-Vachon
VegasHockey
DRGinLBC
Rusty
randdog
dannybuoy1
Drum4Pigs
KernCoKingFan
pray4mojo
empire
HiFi
Liz4LA
Chateau Bow Wow
AngelEyes
Shackleford
Dr. Tran
Eklund (1 Point):
Hockey53
jammer06
Forum Gold
Cross Traffic
Nyssa42
POLL GAME WIN TOTALS
King of the Mountain - 45 points
DRice
43 points
KernCoKingFan
39 points
Nyssa42
38 points
Clif
VegasHockey
36 points
Chateau Bow Wow
Drum4Pigs
35 points
Birdman
VCRW
34 points
Cross Traffic
Guinevere
mugs
RoS
Rusty
33 points
motolare
32 points
pray4mojo
31 points
empire
HiFi
jammer06
notbob
randdog
Rogie-Vachon
30 points
Angel Eyes
29 points
Forum Gold
SirJW
28 points
DRGinLBC
hornman
Liz4LA
27 points
dannybuoy1
McSorleyFan
26 points
Hockey53
25 points
24 points
beady eye
symbology
TooCool
23 points
sonnyboy11
22 points
Dr. Tran
21 points
CIrvine
20 pts
Rog or Reg?
15 points
Shackleford
12 points
Ecktore
9 points
JC6388LAKings
8 points
ICE24
6 points
kingsmen93
5 points
Rinkrat
3 points
JETS GARAGE
2 points
Sevenhole
GO KINGS GO!!!
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