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Big Man Bout

Gotta admire Sammy’s willingness to go.

He clearly isn’t much of a fighter, but the fact that he will shed the mitts is admirable considering the gutless nature of the organization as a whole.

Sammy making sure he makes the most out of his first game in a while.

Good fight. Two huge men boxing. They both eventually just tired.

Shooting Gallery

Worst period the Kings have played this season, so far. There's still so much time for it to get worse.

Pretty much all Flames after Kempe's goal, Kuemper keeping them above water.

Decent period, but needed Kuemper to bail them out on more than a couple saves

A better team would've scored 4 against the Kings after that awful first. So many turnovers and grade A chances by the Flames

We are getting thrown around be the Calgary Flames. Shots 22-7

Absolutely getting bodied

it should be 7-1 right now. It's the god damn Flames, not the Avs. What a horrible performance against a horrible team.

We're struggling against one of the worst teams in the league. This is ####ing embarrassing.

We're getting out shot 23-9 to one of the worst teams in the league.

Turned on the game. Saw the shot clock. Turned it off.

So despite the score we’re just getting absolutely outplayed huh?

Yes, Kuemper is playing lights out, but can we please take some of the heat off him

Darce is 110 percent of the D

Allergic to f***ing shots....thats f***ing embarassing.

Its really simple, shoot, crash the net, hit everything in an opposing jersey, rinse and repeat often.

I’m new to hockey. Shots are like strokes in golf, right? You want them to be super low? Right?

You remember the saying you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take? Well the Kings miss 100% of the shots they plan on taking.

“Hiller Sucks” 2015 Time Machine

I imagine hiller just scribbles gibberish on a whiteboard, confuses everyone, then sniffs his own farts

Hiller told them they’re not allowed to shoot until they pass it at least 10 times in the O-zone

OK, here’s the game plan. We’re gonna skate around until we find our defensive groove. Once you get into your defensive groove you’re gonna try and steal passes and you can try and score maybe if you’re good at defending all game
Yea
you guys ready!!
Let’s go get in the way!!!!

Hiller has the most clueless expressions on his face

If Byfield is scared to play hockey because Hiller will chew him out then Hiller should have been fired months ago

Holy crap, we seriously scratched Kuzmenko again? For ####s sakes fire Hiller NOW

What’s up with Kuzi being scratched again? I know he’s not at his best but he’s still an offensive threat. Am I missing something?

All I want for Christmas is for Jim Hiller to get fired

Post game press conference after Calgary W
REPORTER 1: Jim, what do you say to criticism that the system is too conservative and doesn’t generate offense?

HILLER: I’m glad you asked. We actually generate offense constantly. Tonight alone we generated:
3 strong looks
4 pretty good looks
4 looks that were spiritually dangerous
and one look where the puck looked at the net with intent.

REPORTER 2: Your team’s offense has been near the bottom by goals-per-game. The power play is 32/32 and, in fact, causes goals against. What's the solution?

HILLER: Again, context! You have to adjust for externalities:
Ice quality (some arenas are frankly too icy)
Puck humidity
Opposing goalies (many are clearly goaltending)
Zamboni guy missed a spot
Overinflated puck.

REPORTER 3 Coach, what do you tell your players after a game like this?
HILLER: I tell them the truth: we’re right there. We’re a couple bounces, a couple calls, a couple goals away. We are well on the way to beating Edmonton for sure this time.

Shorthanded Goalman!

TOO MUCH PASSING JUST ####ING SHOOT

GOD DAMMIT FIALA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1-1

A TURNOVER, WHIFF, MISSED HIGH AND WIDE....Fiala in 30 seconds

Somebody who’s at the game, please start a Fire Hiller chant. I’m just listening to the game, and I know that that short handed goal was embarrassing.

The best we can do on a power play is nonstop passing to set up Doughty from Hawaii

How did they just get a 2 on 1 from that? WTF

And we're coming off a loss to the Kraken who've been one of the worst teams in the league recently.

This team sucks.

And ANOTHER short handed goal against.

This is a team trying to get their coach fired.. how many times we seen it

Another SHG haha.

Kings are getting dominated by the Flames, a team Jim Hiller has not been able to solve since last season.

This Kings team is special.

Another funny thing is, how in the f*** does the "powerplay coach" still have a job?

Win or lose I think this one is worse than that Chicago loss. Getting dominated at home by the Flames who are a couple weeks away from being a last place team selling off their players for a rebuild. Complete embarrassment for the city of Los Angeles.

Their captain would rather be golfing and Doughty who they continued to build around is getting smoked by 4th liner Lomberg. Zero intensity zero accountability. They surely are going through the motions and quit on the coach. I just cant tell if they quit on each other.

Despite the 1-1 score, this has genuinely been the most pathetic performance of the season, and there have been some ####ing #### ones.
What the actual #### are they doing?

Holy freakin’ crap. Can’t see the game but just looked at the stats: outshot 29-11 at home by a horrible team?? Only 11 SOG thru 2 periods?????
Edit: They just updated the SOG to 31-10. Even worse.

This is the second game I’ve been able to watch this season. (Live in the EST)
What the #### is this power play? My 10 year old nephews team has a better power play.
They have absolutely no chemistry or flow. It’s like a group of beer league players that are playing together for the first time.
Turcotte, Juice, and Laffy are the three best players on the ice. Phil is sick (possible trade?) so we bench Kuzy and run three lines and burn everyone out?
If they make one more no look, behind the back pass I’m going to bed…

Not So Golden Kid

It’s legitimately hilarious how mediocre Byfield is

this team doesnt give a f***. Byfield is f***ing around on purpose, trying to do some dangles doesnt care about taking shots. Its a rebellion.

Does Byfield not understand what he means to this team? He was drafted to be the future leader of this team but looks like he'd be happy just passing it up every single time and sitting back.

Not enough blue chew in the world to make Byfields game play solid. Limp as always.

Byfield needs to just shoot the puck more instead of trying to make a perfect pass between 2-3 defenders.

Hiller said in the pregame that he had a convo with him and asked him to shoot more and added that he is sure we are going to see it tonight. Well...

byfield is so bad right now, he can't even face the right direction when he gets the puck

Byfield, bro, you're not scoring enough to do between the legs passing ####.

The broadcast is now acknowledging just how much Byfield sucks.

f***ing Byfield man, trade his lazy ass

Byfield 0 out of 5 in those "important dzone faceoffs" and the total is a massive 33%

Byfield is not a center.

Guilty Konscience

Kopi the King!

So desperate for offense even Kopi needs to start cheating for goals

Looked like a kicking motion.

That was a distinct kicking motion.

Real time looked like a kick. Replay still looked like a kick.

Kopitar might as well done a diving header lol

I thought the refs might let the goal stand so all the fans can be relieved of this garbage game.

We're going to lose and Hiller is going to focus on that to tell us how close we were, despite getting bullied all night.

Frosty in Overtime!

Hiller looks like he has depression.

lmao 3 on 1 and lose.

The most Kings ending I can possible think of. Clarke had no confidence to try to pass to Byfield, tries to do it himself, and it ends in a whimper. Pathetic.

perfect, just perfect. well earned loss

I really can't tell who needs to be fired more. Hiller or Brown

Hiller: “I don’t understand what the booing is about. We consistently give the fans free hockey in the form of constant overtime games.”

Some very well deserved boo’s. This is pathetic

Why are we continuing this charade?? We have NO identity, NO flow to our game. Q hasn't scored in 12 games, we can't generate enough offense to be a playoff contender.
STOP the chaos, get Hiller out, open up the game so Alex, Adrian, Q, etc can shine. This is embarrassing AGAIN.....another year wasted.

Instead of watching those three early games coming up this next week I’m gonna schedule a root canal, colonoscopy and an enema during those times.
I’ll at the very least be more entertained.

I’m beyond fed up with this team. One goal again and another OT loss — the LA Kings have zero offensive identity. Watching them try to win 2–1 every night is miserable hockey, and it fails over and over. Jim Hiller is brutal. No creativity, no adjustments, just dump-and-chase and hope Kopitar or Kempe saves them. That’s not a system, that’s desperation.
Luc Robitaille’s legend status doesn’t excuse years of drifting. No identity, no urgency, no accountability. And Ken Holland bringing his outdated, safe, slow hockey mindset only makes it worse. This team plays not to lose and still loses. It’s boring, embarrassing, and a complete waste of talent.