Game Day Thread
Game #36/82 - 12/23/25
>>7:00pm<<
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Seattle Kraken vs. Los Angeles Kings
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Joel Edmundson & Jim Hiller 12/22 Post-Game Quotes
Joel Edmundson
On the team’s inability to get things going at home this season
Very frustrating. We obviously want to put on a show for our great fans. We’re not scoring goals. Special teams is kind of killing us right now. We’ve got to figure that out soon.
On the penalty kill giving up three goals tonight
I mean, when we take eight minors a game, teams are going to start breaking us down. So, we’ve just got to be smarter, keep our sticks down and take less penalties. It gets tiring for killers. It’s just it seems like every game we’re taking way more minors than the other team.
On if he feels the team is lacking in confidence after recent results
I don’t think so. I mean, obviously, forwards want to score goals and when they don’t, obviously it might eat them up a little bit, but everyone’s in this league for a reason, good players, so no one should be lacking confidence.
On taking a stick in the face earlier in the game
I’m good, yeah. Couple of stitches, but just a high stick, ref didn’t see it. Can’t see everything. I thought they could go back and review it, but they said they can’t, unless one of the linesmen see it. They’re just doing their jobs.
Jim Hiller
On not being able to get anything going this season on home ice
Yeah, that’s hard. That’s hard. I didn’t think we started with good legs. They had a couple o-zone shifts, got us on our heels and we didn’t establish anything. We got better as we went along but obviously it wasn’t good enough.
On decision making tonight and the team’s effort level
Decisions on the penalties, first, unacceptable. You saw the penalties, we saw them and I’ve said it before, sometimes they’re 50/50, the refs call them, these were just bad penalties, just very poor decisions. The effort, I never question the effort of our team. I think we tried, there’s no question. When you when you take seven penalties and a combination of them it makes it pretty hard for the other guys. They’ve got to sit on the bench, penalty killers wearing themselves out, then you want to go try to play offense and the rhythm is off. We really didn’t give ourselves a fair chance.
On the PPG’s against being down to number of penalties versus penalty kill breakdowns
I don’t think they had a lot of chances on their on their power play, they just happened to find a way to put the puck in. It wasn’t like they had us spinning in our zone, shot and save, shot and save and recovery, they just found a way to get them through and in.
On the first goal against, coming after two missed 2-on-1’s shorthanded
No question. I mean, the game changes on different moments and that, for me, was a moment that [could have changed the game]. You get the crowd in the building, we’re short, we feel good, who knows what happens next. We don’t execute, they execute, now we’re in a hole.
On the power play tonight
Power play guys are usually your most talented players, so they want to feel good on the power play. They want to score first, for sure, but they want to feel good, they want to make good passes, they want to have opportunities. Even if you don’t score, you still feel like there’s some momentum coming out of it. When it doesn’t happen for you, then the grind 5-on-5 feels that much more difficult.
On Samuel Helenius’ icetime tonight
It’s something I’ve talked to Sammy about. We need him out there, but we’re going to lean on 11 forwards, even though we only have the six defensemen. Sammy understands that, we’ve had that conversation. We’re a little thinner in the middle, we want to have the extra center in there for different reasons. Sammy, he’s got to eat it, but we’ve talked about it, so it’s kind of like 11 and six with him in there as the safety valve there right now. He’ll get more minutes. There will be times when he gets out there and he gets the forecheck going. We got behind early tonight, so we wanted to try to push for some offense.
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