GDT ***Playoffs Rd1 GAME 4 GDT 4/28/24 7:30pm on BSW, TBS, TRU, max***

[Liz4LA]

Hey TOaks…are you afraid to go to the net? All those goals don’t mean sh*t if you can’t win playoff games.

 

[Statue4Deano]

Hey TOaks…are you afraid to go to the net? All those goals don’t mean sh*t if you can’t win playoff games.

I won’t be sad to see Moore traded this summer.

 

[orpheus]

I am optimistic, but I am always optimistic, lol.

 

[VF]

Kings outshooting the Oilers 20:10. But how many of those Kings shot were particularly dangerous? 2? Maybe. How many of those 10 Oilers shots were dangerous? 5 or 6? same old story. They cannot generate dangerous chances.

When you are a struggling team like the Kings, you have to simplify it down to quantity. I absolutely agree that the Kings aren’t putting on high quality chances, but enough low quality chances can work if you can’t do the pretty or gritty. When you are simply outclassed and outgunned, keep it simple north south hockey. You’re not the better team, just put as much rubber on the net as you can, sometimes something happens.

 

[symbology]

Going into this series you would have thought the Kings PK was an advantage. Not so much

Maybe not an advantage, but at least an improvement over years past. Nope, that is not happening either. If they stay out of the box they have a chance.

 

[orpheus]

 

[symbology]

Kings outshooting the Oilers 20:10. But how many of those Kings shot were particularly dangerous? 2? Maybe. How many of those 10 Oilers shots were dangerous? 5 or 6? same old story. They cannot generate dangerous chances.

Exactly. What an offensive powerhouse. Even when they cycle the puck and tire out the Oilers they just put two forwards in front of the net and the puck goes to the point. Where is the forward lurking deep in the slot trying to get open for a pass. Frustrating watching them play and lose.

Dangerous slot chances? Where? Forwards are always to deep and have no open net to shoot at, if the puck happens to get passed to them.

 

[Statue4Deano]

When you are a struggling team like the Kings, you have to simplify it down to quantity. I absolutely agree that the Kings aren’t putting on high quality chances, but enough low quality chances can work if you can’t do the pretty or gritty. When you are simply outclassed and outgunned, keep it simple north south hockey. You’re not the better team, just put as much rubber on the net as you can, sometimes something happens.

If the approach is quantity over the quality then you need to get more bodies in front of the goalie. Screened goal and rebound goal are the only way they’re going win tonight. I’m not seen anywhere near enough traffic through 2.

 

[MiketheKing]

1 goal seems insurmountable at this point. Gotta drive! Perimeter point shots ain't gonna work.

 

[MiketheKing]

We're not in position to get rebounds so 1 and done

 

[symbology]

That was a hold on Perry. If he used his stick it would have been a hook. Much more of a hold than what Englund got called for.

 

[Statue4Deano]

Kings are running out of time.

 

[Nyssa42]

one of these has to go in right??

 

[MiketheKing]

Kings are running out of time.

We have 1 strategy and its been neutralized. This is where skill needs to take over...

 

[JC6388LAKings]

Regarding the Kings' offense...

The good news: The Kings are shooting the puck more often in the O-zone.

The bad news: Skinner has stopped all of the Kings' shots on net so far, looking like Lundqvist.

 

[JasonU]

Making Skinner look like an all-star

 

[ChiKingFan]

This is simply a different Skinner that played in game 2.

 

[Halfwall]

This is simply a different Skinner that played in game 2.

How can you tell? He hasn't had to do anything. Not one great scoring chance from the Kings.

 

[Sevenhole]

If the approach is quantity over the quality then you need to get more bodies in front of the goalie. Screened goal and rebound goal are the only way they’re going win tonight. I’m not seen anywhere near enough traffic through 2.

Not that I want to replay THE trade but that is where this team misses Vilardi he was the Kings presence in front of the net

 

[ChiKingFan]

Kings could end up winning every major statistical category tonight except goals.