Game Day Thread
Game #71/82 -- 03/25/25
>>7:30pm<<
on FanDuel
New York Rangers vs. Los Angeles Kings
Crypto.com Arena | Los Angeles, CA
GREEK HERITAGE NIGHT
**Game Time 7:30pm**
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Warren Foegele (video), Adrian Kempe & Jim Hiller 3/23 Post-Game Quotes
Adrian Kempe
On scoring 14 goals over the last two games
One week, we don’t get that many and then they all come at once. I mean, it’s nice for everybody’s confidence, all the lines, all the D, everybody’s going, obviously feels good in the locker room. Yeah, it’s two games, you never know what’s gonna happen next game. We’ve been creative, maybe the bounces we get now we didn’t get earlier in the season, that’s just how hockey is. I think the confidence is really good at home and we build off that, so it’s been a good homestand so far.
On the impact Andrei Kuzmenko is making on his line right now
Ever since he came, we’ve liked playing with him. He makes a lot of plays, just kind of trying to understand him a little bit more on the ice with the plays he makes and same for him, coming in and playing with a completely new team, I think he has been doing a really good job. He communicates a lot, that helps when you’re out there. Well deserved, getting couple goals for him, I think having a lot of chances.
On if he has just come to expect this level from Quinton Byfield
I think this is as good as we’ve seen him play and he’s such a huge and important player for us. If he can bring this as consistent as possible, as often as possible, I think it’s going to be huge for us moving forward, especially for the playoffs too.
On the 14-game home point streak and what makes this team so good on home ice
We feel like we are confident, we have good chance to win every game. I think I’ve said this before, but when we’re down one or two goals, we feel like we have good enough chances, crowd is always buzzing and we always find a way which is important. Especially this season, it’s been different than any other season, I think, at home. It’s a really good thing and hopefully with the remaining games at home and on the road, we can start playing a little bit better there as well.
Jim Hiller
On the team setting a new franchise record for consecutive home games with a point
That one, it’s impressive, there’s no question and one I think we share with everybody, with our fans, with the city. That’s what I think we’re proud about. That’s us, that’s all of us. We go on the road, you see some Kings jerseys in the stands, they’re cheering you on, it’s great to have them, but here, this is us. So, I think we should all be pretty proud of that, not just the players, but the fans as well.
On what his thoughts were when he saw Darcy Kuemper charging to center ice
I was thinking somebody should have grabbed him, that’s what I really wanted. I’m glad it turned out the way it did, which means nobody got into any anything that they shouldn’t have. Pretty late in the season for that, for all the bad things that might happen. Nobody wants to see that…..well, I shouldn’t say that, the fans do, but I’m sure neither team’s coaches want to see that, because those are some pretty important players, you don’t want them busting up hands or anything like that. They’re not as agile as the players are, so I think it’s a little easier for the referees to get ahold of those guys, and I’m glad they did.
On Warren Foegele reaching three separate milestones in tonight’s victory
He should buy a lottery ticket tonight after that, right? I knew he had 100 goals, I knew he had 500 games, but his 20th as well. He’s been excellent, and getting better, so that’s really where I’m encouraged. He had a couple tracks tonight too, where he came back, broke plays up. He’s just a really good player.
On keeping the fourth line together, even with Trevor Moore unable to play tonight
They’ve played so well together, we thought why would we take them apart. They’ve had a lot of chemistry, they’ve added something every night. Even the nights they haven’t scored, they’ve been pinning teams in their zone, they’ve been physical, they really have something going together.
On the notion of physicality in tonight’s game
I thought they bumped us around early to be honest with you. I thought they had more physicality early. I think part of our physicality is, we’re bigger and stronger this year for sure and you get that fourth line out there and they’re taking a piece of people, but I think the physical part of the game for us was our puck battles. We put the puck in a lot and we had long shifts because we just kept lifting the D’s stick or we got there, they had to put them around the boards and we won the next battle. I thought probably puck battles tonight in the offensive zone was probably our strongest game of the year in that regard.
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