PLAYOFFS Game Day Thread
Round 1, Game 2 -- 4/24/24
7:00pm on BSW &
Los Angeles Kings @ Edmonton Oilers
Rogers Place | Edmonton, AB
Season Series Meetings
**Game Time 7:00PM**
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Drew Doughty (video), Adrian Kempe, & Jim Hiller 4/22 Post-Game Quotes:
Adrian Kempe
On his main takeaways from the Kings’ defensive performance tonight
I think we gave up too much off the rush. I think that was our main thing when you look at the game. I think when we’re in the zone and when we played with the puck, even when they had the puck in our zone, I think we played pretty well, I think we gave up too many rush chances. Yeah, PK, I don’t know what we were, 3-for-4 or whatever, that’s got to be better. We can’t have them be at [75] percent, that’s not going to win games.
On if he felt tonight’s game was played in Edmonton’s style, not LA’s
I think a little bit. After the first period, I think like I said, it was trying to eliminate the rush a little bit more. We were maybe a little bit careless, pinching and not covering, us as forwards and that gave them a lot of rush chances. Like I said, other than the rush chances, I think we handled them pretty well down low and stuff like that, but yeah, they played too much on the on the go and that’s their strength. That’s something that we’ve got to be better at.
On if he felt the breakdowns were structural or personnel, read-based
No, I think it’s kind of a read thing. Everybody’s fired up when you come in and play, everybody wants to go out there and be physical, all that kind of stuff, and sometimes – I can only speak for myself – sometimes you just don’t think and you go in there and you lose a man and it’ll become a 3-on-2. All that kind of stuff, like I said, that’s what they’re really good at. That’s something that we’ve got to be more careful with on Wednesday.
On the disappointing nature of the PPG early in the third, after fighting their way back
I think we were fighting back all game and that’s something that we have to take with us moving forward. Even if we go down in the next game, I think we’ll still try as hard as we can to get back. Every time you come in this building, you know they’re going to get power plays, that’s just how it is. So I mean, like I said, we have to do better on the PK. We eliminate a couple of those penalties and don’t let them be [75] percent on the power play, I think it’s a more even game.
Jim Hiller
On his thoughts on the defensive breakdowns in tonight’s game
Two things that happened are strengths of ours – penalty kill and eliminating rush chances. That’s what we do well and we didn’t do either of those well tonight. That’s the obvious, we definitely saw that and we’ll have to fix that.
On the backbreaking nature of the power-play goal early in the third, after getting back to 4-2
Yeah, that got us. The Lewie goal gets disallowed, we come back to score after that, so I thought we did have some momentum in the o-zone. We were getting to the net, we had some shots, we just couldn’t stop their power play tonight for some reason and that makes it pretty tough. Once they get that kind of lead, it deflates you and makes it for a long way back.
On tonight’s game being played in Edmonton’s style, not the Kings’
Well, it was the rush chances, it was F3, we lost F3. They came at us with numbers, that’s something that we usually don’t do, we always have F3 and we didn’t have F3, we didn’t track as well as we have, so these are things that are fixable for us. I think that’s really the point that we’re trying to make. is if we can fix those things, we usually do those well. I don’t have a good answer as far as why we didn’t do those, but that’s not how we play.
On the nature of the team’s four penalties taken tonight
I thought they were borderline, it was a couple of borderline, when you could look at it and say you gave them a chance to make that call. There were two for sure that can’t be in our game. They get to the net on the power play, this is not surprising to anybody here, it can’t happen. You can’t put yourself in a position where the referee’s got to make a judgment call. Two for sure.
On how he would assess Cam Talbot’s play and how the group didn’t make things easy on him
Cam was fine. I’ll back it up, I thought our forwards made it too hard on our D and our team, as a group, we made it too hard on Cam. He made a lot of saves, some good saves. They were coming down and cracking them on some odd-man rushes, so there was nothing there for Cam. There’s just no way we can give that many chances up, that’s just not us. We’ll clean it up.
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FINAL POLL GAME WIN TOTALS
King of the Mountain with 75 points - Rusty
68 pts = hornman
64 pts = beady eye
63 pts = Angel Eyes
62 pts = forum gold
60 pts = VegasHockey
59 pts = SirJW
58 pts = mugs, notbob
57 pts = jammer06, puckoff
56 pts = Liz4LA, pray4mojo
55 pts = KernCoKingsFan
54 pts = Cross Traffic, Guinevere, VCRW
53 pts = dannybuoy1
52 pts = Nyssa42
50 pts = Chateau Bow Wow
49 pts = Randdog
48 pts = katydid213, Rogie-Vachon
47 pts = DRGinLBC, Dr Tran, empire, Rog or Reg?
46 pts = DRice
44 pts = Bill Hicks, Kurisu
43 pts = Byron
41 pts = Drum4Pigs
39 pts = sonnyboy11, symbology
37 pts = Shackleford
36 pts = Rinkrat
33 pts = JETS GARAGE
31 pts = JayWells24, Jerram
27 pts = TooCool
26 pts = Madness20721
22 pts = fake_it_make_it, KHenry14
21 pts = clif
20 pts = waynet
19 pts = Sevenhole
18 pts = Salty Puck
17 pts = CIrvine, HiFi
16 pts = hihocarp
14 pts = Hockey53, JC6388LAKings
9 pts = cokingsfan
8 pts = Ice24
7 pts = rfischer
6 pts = Busted Chops, Dexter
4 pts = beedee
2 pts = Ragbone, Tiranga
1 pt = CHARAzard, PuckMaster, STONE
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