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Game Thread: G13 6-3-3 Kings @ Smashville 11/4/24

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Game day again, 5pm start in Nashville. I still don't know what FanDuel Sports is for TV but I'm assuming that's FSW/Bally Sports. I'm sure I'll be able to find it somewhere, we had our annual block party Saturday from 2pm on so I wasn't able to do a GDT or watch the game. Sounds like the Kings blew it allowing the Hawks back in and then getting the SO win.

Looking like Kuemper getting the start and Burroughs back in moving Gavrikov back to his natural left side. He's been pretty solid on the right and eating up the extra minutes in Doughty's absence. Line up in morning skate was:

15 11 9
22 24 12
37 55 14
10 61 26
47

44 21
6 92
84 7
5 82

Things could change but looks like Lee, Englund and Jones will be scratched but may figure in tomorrow in Minnesota since it's a B2B. I dont understand why Lewis is playing so much, I get they want him to hit 1000 games but there's plenty of time for that to happen. I'd rather see Thomas center L4 and see more of Lee because of his size although he's somewhat slow.

Nashville went bananas in the off season with acqusitions (Book of Bowlby, P27) and is off to a rough 4-6-1, I had them pegged for winning the Central but again plenty of time for that to happen. The Kings went 1-2 against them last season winning in Nashville and losing both games in LA surprisingly.

This is one of those games where that feeling of if Nashville wins it'll get them going and I certainly don't want that to happen at the Kings' expense. They are down, and LA should be all over them from the drop of the puck to keep it that way.

Nice to see Dunno finally get on the board, need Buster and others to really get going. This is game 13 and no goals is alarming. He's been moved to C3 again but he doesn't seem to be able to drive his own line, Laferriere is doing everything there after being dropped from LW1 with Turcotte taking his place as LW1. The logic there is to spread the depth, and it's working with Laferriere in the T10 in NHL scoring - whoulda think that? No excuse for Buster, Laferriere is producing up and down the line up, Turcotte is doing well on L1. This is a game where if he doesn't show something a benching is seriously due. The Kings cannot continue to win without him getting going.

Prediction: lots of hits, a fight since Nashville plays a physical brand of hockey and a Kings 4-3 win. Goals by Spence, Kempe, Jeannot who makes his return to Nashville and...Lewis. Fiala doing Fiala things.

Let's Go Kings!
 

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Of all the acquisitions, and I don't know how this slipped my mind, I forgot Stamkos is in Nashville now.

Just wonderful, this guy makes a killing whenever he plays LA. I wouldn't be surprised to see a 3 point game from him tonight.
 

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Just got home, looks like so far so good Kopistar with a G off the back of Saros and LA outshooting....pedal to the medal
 

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Stat showing Clarke with his points vs other in first 13g...yes some ok plays, but hes been one of the worst defensively imo....Kuemper bails ot la with nice save
 

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Back to Clarke, need to use him as a pp guy and a bottom pair type when not needing defense....like the Cicis, barries etc. Unless he learns better stick use and positioning to Become Effective dman. He's never going to be big , but it doesn't mean he should just not do anything in the defensive zone, If He could use his stick and positioning like a guy like sopel did And use His offensive skill set he could be top tier.... But It's very hard to teach that.
 

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Well Jeanott shouldnt drop the gloves anymore
 

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Burroughs v ROR ...meh, Turcott smushed by Lazon
 

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On the Preds the have a Larue? Of course Ladue popped in my head, looked him up....now hes sucking in Sweden
 

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Some “fights” well they got 5for fighting so yeah fights.
Not a lot of hockey IQ on display by either team.
And worst of all no ice cream
 

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Fiala! Nice off the rebound
 

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Preds pretty disfunctional lol, they added a lot of names that arent meldng
 

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Saros to the bench at 4min
 

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Nyquist misses ppuck for an empty net, Cantplay gets the actual EN
 

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This one is more about yhe Preds, but still a solid effort for LA
 

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I've been hyper critical of the Kings so far, and yes Preds didn't play a good game. But you play who is in front of you. Best performance as a whole for the team this season imo. Structure was near perfect. Preds could never get any offensive cycle going, or threats, especially on their PP.

Better test will be tomorrow night against Wild...
 

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Well Jeanott shouldnt drop the gloves anymore

Schenn is a heavyweight, I liked him when he was here and was hoping LA would have kept him. Solid SAH defender, size, mean.

Great article in TA on him about a year to 18 months ago about how he almost hung up the skates but reinvented his game to keep playing hockey.
 

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Preds pretty disfunctional lol, they added a lot of names that arent meldng

Reminds me of the NYR of the early 2000s when Sather signed all kinds of names like Lindros, Holik, Jagr, etc for big bucks and they promptly missed the POs that same year.

You just can't buy a team and expect it to mesh because the players are stars or whatever.
 

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Just got home, looks like so far so good Kopistar with a G off the back of Saros and LA outshooting....pedal to the medal

Probably the most conplete game LA played all season so far. Sure it is Nashville, and they are stumbling but at least LA didn't shoot themselves in the foot.

Limiting them to 16 SOG is impressive no matter what, especially in the third. You'd think the Predators would have cranked it up down by 2 but were held to just 3 SOG in the third. The 1-2-2 seems to be coming along better but I still get nervous when opposing teams attack.

Kuemper made some dandies, everyone did their job (almost, where TF are you Buster?). Big test tonight against the Wild so we should get a better picture of this Jekyll and Hyde team.
 
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