Game Day Thread
Playoffs - Round 1 Game 6 - 05/01/25
>>7:00pm<<
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Los Angeles Kings @ Edmonton Oilers
Rogers Place | Edmonton, AB
**Game Time 7:00pm**
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Joel Edmundson & Jim Hiller 4/29 Post-Game Quotes
Joel Edmundson
On the level of frustration with that performance in that situation
I think we’re all frustrated with the effort we gave. Throughout the whole season, we’ve been playing hard at home, we love playing in front of these fans, huge game for us and we come out like that. So yeah, frustrating.
On what he can pinpoint as the areas that went wrong in the game
There’s lots of things. I think we could have been quicker in the d-zone and I don’t think we were moving our feet quite enough in the o-zone. They played a good game over there, they made it hard on this, but we’ve got to be better.
On if he felt the team had the energy coming into the game
Yeah, we were excited for the game. We left the last two games behind and we were excited for this game and everyone was feeling good. We had the energy but it obviously didn’t show on the ice.
On if it’s been a challenge for the Top 4 to log as many minutes as they have in this series
No, I don’t think so. Obviously with the overtime game, we played a lot and we’re trying to get the matchups, but we’ve been playing a lot of hockey all year. I think we feel good.
On Edmonton’s play at the netfront and getting second and third chances offensively
They’re doing a good job of that. It doesn’t matter if we keep them to the outside, they’re just kind of chucking them in there and pucks are bouncing around and stuff for Darce to cover them up and they’re just whacking away. I think going in the next game, we’ve just got to take the body, clear clear out the front of the net and let Darce cover it up.
Jim Hiller
On the Kings struggles throughout tonight’s Game 5
They executed way better than us tonight, that was the first one. They were stronger, they beat us in every area of the game, except for the special teams, oddly enough. The goaltender was great for us to give us a chance. They were just better in every way. We can’t look to one part of our game and think that that was acceptable or that was good enough.
On what he felt the impact of fatigue was in tonight’s defeat
If you think about it, it’s right from the start. So, I could see as the game were on, I think we can talk about that, they had us from the start of the game, that’s the bigger concern. It didn’t take us to get fatigued, right out of the gate. You’re not fatigued in the first period, you shouldn’t be anyway. Maybe later in the game we didn’t generate enough, you can maybe point to that, but I don’t think out of the gate. They were just better.
On what was missing from the team’s connectivity tonight
What I can tell you is we weren’t connected defensively either. I think you’re connected on both sides of the puck and we were not connected defensively. I don’t think we gave ourselves a great chance. We turned the puck over, you guys watched the game, how many times we turned the puck over, so we were disorganized, they came racing at us. We probably give them more odd-man rushes in the first period tonight than they might have in the whole series to this point. We’re just not going to win that way. Maybe some other teams can win that way, we’re not going to win that way and that’s why we play the style that we do. We have to keep it tight and then grind you for one or two.
On the volume of shots against tonight and in Game 4
I’ll just take you back to going into the third period in Edmonton in Game 3. I don’t know what they had, 15 or 16 shots at that point. Scoring chances, they might have had some shots in the third period but they didn’t have many looks at all. So, I’m not worried about shots so much as the quality of chances. Tonight, they got shots and quality chances. In the overtime, they had quality chances, that’s a different story. It’s [been] four periods. Prior to that, we were on them and we’ve got to get back to that.
On how Edmonton found inside lanes in tonight’s game and how to counteract that
They got on the inside, so we can’t let them get inside. So much of it was disorganized from us that we were just overwhelmed. We were outnumbered at our net, that doesn’t even happen. When you’re outnumbered and they’re hungry, they’re going to get banging on your pads. There’s just so much, I can’t explain it here. It just was not a good, you can say offensive game for us, but we’re a solid, checking team, that’s where our game starts. You can see it, if we just want to try to play a pure offensive game, that doesn’t work.
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