Game Thread: SJ Guppies @ LA KIngs

[pete6835]

Toffoli

 

[pete6835]

Lewis

 

[pete6835]

Sharks announcers

 

[PuckinUgly57]

Sharks announcers

They are awful. The multiple comments about Pavelski being the best shot tipper in the NHL was pathetic. Not because he isn't, but because the guy seriously believes of all time or something.

Apparently he forgot about a guy named Luc Robitaille, the highest scoring LW in NHL history? Yeah that guy, who skated ugly, slow as dirt but had magic hands who made a freaking living tipping goals in from in front. Moron.

Back on track, great start by LA but SJ started creeping back into the game. I'm glad the intermission happened, the Kings need to regroup.

And Dustin Brown still sucks, he couldn't score into an empty shoe box from 3 feet away.

 

[pete6835]

Toffoli x2

 

[Psych3man]

What the FUCK is wrong with this team???

 

[PuckinUgly57]

Maybe tired? Effort looks there but small mistakes are killing them.

And Burns should have been given 2 for diving in addition to the slash, there was no reason to go down the way he did except to attract attention. Hope karma bites them here in soon.

 

[PuckinUgly57]

Nick Shore = Jarret Stoll x 2 - Dumb Penalties.

The guy has zero offensive skills, could have used a goal there.

 

[smackdown380]

Shore also whiffed and missed the empty net

 

[smackdown380]

The youth is killing us, FO and mistakes

 

[davnlaguna]

I am thinking the Kings are pushing the Sharks into the post season so the Ducks will stay out

 

[PuckinUgly57]

The youth is killing us, FO and mistakes

The lack of experience is certainly playing a role, Shore, Andreoff, Weal, Mersch, and to a lesser degree McNabb are all making mistakes. Part of the learning curve but the veterans then in that case need to help them out more.

One of my biggest concerns losing Richards and Stoll was the veteran C experience no matter how bad they had become offensively. Two of those goals don't happen with them here (3 and 4). Shore was in front of Quick on Pavelski's GW PP goal helping support down low since Doughty was high but he was on the wrong side of Quick allowing Pavelski to get that pass, skate in backwards and curl and score an easy goal.

He will learn, as will the other guys but it needs to be an accelerated curve. This is not a rebuilding/developing team, it's one built for championships, so you better be a student of the game and get up to speed and none of these guys have so far really.

I would love to see a B6 veteran C and a T4 SAH defender in LA by the trade deadline. Otherwise all the pieces are there.

 

[lasportzphan]

Uh oh, here comes the slump. Right on cue.

Shore is shit. Never showed me anything.