Game Thread: G44 25-13-5 Kings vs Sid the Kid and Geno

[Kings4OT]

1-4....seems pointless

 

[davnlaguna]

Kings get some life
Give up another and the energy vanished

 

[PuckinUgly57]

Good lord...5-1. Britches getting too big raving about 9 straight home wins, pathetic effort for LAFD.

 

[Kings4OT]

1-5, not even

 

[PuckinUgly57]

Missed it

Stoll says wakey wakey describing the Kings lackluster play and fading out PON says wakey wakey eggs and bakey, I chuckled.

 

[PuckinUgly57]

Well, glad that shit show is over.

Will TOTM ever score another goal? Stay tuned for the next episode of TOTM Tries Real Hard.

 

[Kings4OT]

2nd worst game this season. Not a good start to the home stand

 

[PuckinUgly57]

Hiller finally calls out Buster:

On elevating Samuel Helenius in the third period

I didn’t like Q’s game, I didn’t like where Q was and I thought Sammy, in his limited time prior to that, was going at least, was one of the, probably few players I thought had some energy, some physicality, some intensity, so I just wanted to reward him a little bit. Well, I shouldn’t single Q out, there were plenty of guys to go along with him. He, like the others, wasn’t on his game. I wanted to bump Sammy up, so where do you where do you put him? It’s easy to slide Q to the wing.

About freaking time. Kind of confirms he flies around a lot but doesn't accomplish a lot. I felt he was all over the ice last night but apart from that partial break where he completely missed the net he was a non factor yet again. He's quite the optical illusionist.

Unacceptable for $6.25 million a year and the primo opportunities this guy gets. Turcotte has been more of an impact player, I'd dial back Buster's minutes and opportunities or scratch him altogether for a game or two and give Turcotte the same chances Buster has gotten to show what he can do.

 

[Kings4OT]

Ya craig johnson was fast too

 

[PuckinUgly57]

Ya craig johnson was fast too

Good old HOS, the classic play was flying down the right wing and either getting plastered against the boards by a defenseman or doing the off foot Messier shot, missing the net entirely and it rings around sending the other team on attack.* ^

* sounds a lot like Trevor Moore actually.

^ about 8-10 years ago I had a meeting in a Newport cafe and Scott Niedermeyer and HOS were in there having breakfast. I think Niedermeyer had just/was recently retired and Johnson was the HS ice hockey coach for a school in South OC. I approached them after they were done eating, chatted hockey a bit, nice guys and got a pic with them.