Game Day Thread
Playoffs - Round 1 Game 4 - 04/27/25
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Los Angeles Kings @ Edmonton Oilers
Rogers Place | Edmonton, AB
**Game Time 6:30pm**
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Drew Doughty (video), Mikey Anderson & Jim Hiller 4/25 Post-Game Quotes
Mikey Anderson
On the emotions of coming back to take the lead, but ultimately falling short
Yeah, it sucks, but if look at it, we’re still in a good place. You get to come back in two nights and get another stab at it, which is the best part.
On the game-tying goal on the coaches challenge and how he saw that play
I mean, we don’t obviously know the nitty gritty of all the rules, so it’s hard to say what should have been this or that. Obviously it didn’t go our way, their crowd gets into it a little bit, and then unfortunately, we couldn’t get a kill. So big swing of emotion, but that’s way of the game sometimes.
On what he saw from the team after going down 2-0 in coming back to take the lead
It was good. We knew they were going to come out hard, it’s their their home rink, they obviously didn’t like the first two games. So, maybe a little slower start, giving up a couple, but found a way to get to regroup that last 10 minutes of the first I thought was really good from the group and something to build on.
On playing with five defensemen for the bulk of the game tonight
You get into a rhythm. I mean, I don’t think anyone really thinks about it. If you put anyone of our D out there and you’re playing a lot, it’s rhythm you want to be in. Everyone wants to play as much as they can, so is what it is. It sucks for Spenny that maybe he didn’t get a whole lot today but he’s a great teammate, and he was there the whole time everyone on.
On the confidence the group still has heading into Game 4 with a 2-1 lead
I think everyone’s feeling good. I mean, again, not the result today, maybe not liking the way the third went, but if you take the first half of the game, maybe look at it and what you like, what you didn’t like, you build on it. The vibes are good in the room. Guys know what we have as a team and just keep playing hard.
Jim Hiller
On his decision to challenge for goaltender interference on the game-tying goal
Well, we got a good look at it, took plenty of time and we felt it was goalie interference, so we challenged it. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose on those. Tonight we lost and it cost us big time, there’s no way around it.
On weighing the risks of giving up a power play when deciding to make the challenge
All those things go into it and that’s why we take a timeout, we understand the situation. We don’t want to give them a power play but clearly we felt that that challenge was in our favor, but the league disagreed and we move on. The next step would have been for us to kill the penalty, that didn’t happen either. It’s a tough it’s a tough stretch for us, there’s no question. That’s hockey, that’s playoff hockey especially.
On his concern in losing a third-period lead in two of the three games
How excited am I that we were leading in the third period? Is that what I heard? I’m pretty happy that we’re playing the game well enough that we’re leading in the third period. That’s a good team, so I’ll take that, that’s the way I’ll look at that situation.
On his team’s composure and calmness when going down 2-0
I thought we had some really good looks in the first period, despite being down 2-1 going in. I thought we had some really good looks second half of the period, I thought we got going, got some really good looks. It’s a long game and we knew they were going to come. They came, in fact they scored twice, which is good for them in the first 10 minutes, or whatever it was. Got to weather the storm, got to be tough, you’ve got to get out there and play. That’s exactly what we did.
On Edmonton scoring twice on the power play, their first two PPG’s of the series
They scored on the faceoff, they scored on the entry, so they didn’t score in zone. Those are two things that are, we had a pretty good idea of what they were trying to do and they executed very well. We had a chance to break one up, we didn’t break it up, they executed. I’m sure they’d like some of the ones that we scored back, too. We’ll have to be better in those situations, but it’s good hockey. I’d like to give you more but it’s two teams going at it pretty good.
On getting desperation and energy from Edmonton, right from the start tonight
I would say both those things. Yeah, I thought they came up with the energy we expected. The crowd was great, they came out with the energy we expected. I would have wished that we did a better job of just weathering that. I mean, that’s coming for sure, that’s just a fact they’re going to come and we’ve got to weather that. We didn’t do a great job of weathering that. I thought we did a better job, once we got our legs under us, of playing the game, playing our game.
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