Everyone - Forwards, Defencemen, Wolf and the coaching staff - were on point for this one. Great game, great effort, and almost a perfect result.
Have to mention Kirkland tonight coming off the bench to fight the big kid Helenius, and he did well.
Huberdeau's best game of the season IMO. He was all around it tonight in every zone. Every player I felt played well, but I really want to mention Huberdeau here.
Yes, Huby looked very engaged. Was full of energy, focused, hard on the puck, and had a shoot first mentality.
I feel like LA will be pretenders until Byfield reaches his potential - if he does. Can’t say I watch a lot of LA games but Byfield isn’t very noticeable most of the time when I do. He’s stilll a young player in this league so he’s likely got a few more years until he is a legit #1 center but I think he should be more of an impact player on a nightly basis. It’s still Kopitar who stands out as their best player and usually by a wide margin.
He is noticeable well he was tonight. Just not in a good way.
La telegraphs everything they will do. Cross ice pass or drop pass for a o e timer. After that it’s like they have no clue.
They are good at defending and have good sticks. The flames did a good job fighting through that and getting some good chances. Zary is about to pop.
I feel like LA will be pretenders until Byfield reaches his potential - if he does. Can’t say I watch a lot of LA games but Byfield isn’t very noticeable most of the time when I do. He’s stilll a young player in this league so he’s likely got a few more years until he is a legit #1 center but I think he should be more of an impact player on a nightly basis. It’s still Kopitar who stands out as their best player and usually by a wide margin.
I had a similar thought before remembering that he's only 22.
The flames put on a clinic on breakouts tonight. Quick collection of the puck on the boards and played immediately to the middle to a full stride centerman. Did that over and over again with precision. Centres weren’t slowing down waiting for the puck and weren’t having to battle for chipped pucks off the wall outside the zone. Just beautiful.
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Kinda goofy you need 3 different streaming services to watch a single game sometimes
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Big early season game. Flames are probably one of those teams hovering around a wild card spot at the end of the season, so the Kings can do themselves a favor by slapping them down early.
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Calgary can be feisty but we should win. (My moneyline genius hot tip)
Uncanny Resemblance
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Ryan Lomberg is built like a buff Lord Farquaad.
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Haha who was that on the Flames bench jamming along to Oh Canada?
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Ryan Lomberg
Backs opens the scoring
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Deserved, we've been ####ing ####
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Oh FFS
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Is the kings strategy to rope-a -dope the flames? God grief they cannot complete a pass.
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Nick Nickson the eternal jinxer. He's going on about how ineffective Calgary's power play has been just before they get a prime scoring chance on it.
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We deserved that
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yeah that was a long time coming. ugh
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Wake up you fools
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on pace for 0 goals 0 shots 0 effort
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Great stretch of terrible choices
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It feels weird they're only playing Calgary in this Alberta trip.
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could sense that goal was coming, terrible turnover from gavrikov
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Look, they were being cute with the puck and it turned over into a goal.
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knew it was gonna be one of those gavrikov games right off the rip
way too cute, twice in one shift
deserved goal
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Gavs with a beauty of an assist.
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Luckily its only 1-0... dumb play by phone boy
Huberdeau with some insurance
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Rough 2nd period lol
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Dreadful
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Gavrikovs worst game of the season, Spence takes a step back, Lewis is still Lewis and i'm wondering what Lee brings to the lineup
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i can't even single out players any more everyone is so ass except for clarke
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Dude are we still on the pk????
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The kings are playing limper than my dick
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I had more fun at my vasectomy a couple weeks ago. This game sucks.
Dude literally started digging around in my nutsack before the local kicked in and it was still preferable to watching this ####.
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#### yeah man, love this team…….can’t wait to watch more of this team this game
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Maybe the worst period I've seen from the Kings so far this season. Just nothing positive to say about it.
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I am honestly pretty shocked how consistently the last man back realizes so late that there’s a man breaking
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Our vaunted defense
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Jesus! I went to take a piss and come back 2-0 and the Rams missed a FG.
Wolf’s Night Out
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After hearing Wolf was a Junior King I immediately called him shutting us out tonight. I really hope I’m wrong!
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Man these guys struggle to put the puck on net when there is no traffic. Frustrating to watch!
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So glad we passed on wolf despite him being in our systems growing up :/
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Man. I should have realized it was destined when it was this kid. Kind of a pre moulson index
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The better team got the +2 tonight. Way more connected for the duration of the game. Took the boys half the game to figure out how to get any kind of sustained zone time.
Too much slop in the first 30 minutes. Their first goal a direct result. Really frustrating 6v4, too. They acted like it was a first period power play with no urgency. Darcy looked good and good for Wolf, too. Hometown kid, maybe the best goalie I’ve ever seen, not sure how we got one by him
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They havent been able to complete a pass for three seasons and they insist they are the globe trotters trying to make fancy plays. Their goals come off tips, point shots, greasy goals and shooting off the rush.
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Can Wolf get a shutout against his childhood team?
Power Kill
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I can't believe we can't do anything with a 6 on 4 powerplay. Our power play needs work.
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Kopitar is so unimpressive that it’s actually impressive how unimpressive he is.
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The sun is definitely setting on his career. Hard.
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Every kings fan except Rob Blake knew we needed a scoring winger this offseason and look where it’s led us. Trevor Lewis getting top 6 minutes and playing with all our skill players.
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You mean we can’t score when we have Lewis playing on the first line?????? No way
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Lewis' ice time will increase until morale improves
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Sure hope we show up
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I just….like we really have nobody else we can play on the first line? I get not wanting to change the other lines because they are playing well but like….nobody else?
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What an awesome power play, ####ing joke
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if there was ever a time for a PP goal w/ empty net, plz let it be now.
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One day I'll see this team have a competent powerplay again.. 22/23 was a fever dream, I dont think we'll ever be in the top half again
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We look ####ing clueless on power play Jesus
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Do powerplays actually help us?
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Let’s try the same ####ing zone entry over and over again even tho it didn’t work before
Backs into the EN
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That's game. Kings aren't coming back, not with the way they've been playing tonight.
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So ugly
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Shocker…
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God we suck at faceoffs
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Clarke out of position. Nice!
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Our power play is beyond pathetic
Gg flames!
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Good game, we’re not scoring two in 3 minutes with how we have played so far. Embarrassing game. Needed depth scoring this offseason with so many good looking choices and we get Jeannot and Joel. We are so ####ing lucky our young guys have looked good so far or we’d be at the bottom. At least we didn’t get a lot/or any power plays so we couldn’t be disappointed by that. This especially stings because we pasted on Wolf.
But hey at least we hit more in these losses
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Feels like I might be ready to become a Sabres fan. Watching this team is like masturbating with a cheese grater.
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I honestly can’t remember the last time this team won in the saddledome. It’s like playing the Buffalo Sabres in their barn but in the west
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Miserable game to watch, maybe the worst I've seen them play all season. First in the division, my ass. Pathetic effort, what a waste of my evening.
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Guys I don’t think Trevor Lewis is a 1st liner
Consistently No Good
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Was watching prime and it's still tied at zero. But it's definately behind, as the score online shows Calgary scored. One drawback.
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Kings suck
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Better late than never: Eat #### Flames.
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can't score
can't defend
can't get a save
Special teams a mess
other than that, things are going well
discuss
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Package RNH and Savoie and see what kind of defenseman you can get.
Then trade for a goalie.
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They're going to get Knoblauch fired aren't they.
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Our PP sucks.
Our PK sucks.
Our offense sucks.
Our goaltending sucks.
No one cares about team defense.
We play with no intensity.
The management, coaching and players don’t give a sh*t. This team doesn’t have it.
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We have no identity. We aren't fast anymore, we aren't a rush team anymore, we aren't physical, we don't play with any energy, we aren't a volume shooting team from everywhere, we don't generate any quality looks in the o zone. We are just a perimeter team that can't really generate any good looks almost anywhere in the ice unless it's a perfect passing play.
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You don’t need to trade for a superstar. You just need an actual bonafide top 4 defenseman and/or a starting goalie.
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Except actual winners don’t do this:
Florida first 15 games after their Cup- 9-3-1 so far
Vegas first 15 games after their Cup- 12-3
Colorado first 15 games after their Cup- 9-5-1
Cup hangovers are just an excuse- it’s bad management, a historically bad goalie coach, a flawed roster and some rocks for brains players at key positions who are sinking us (along with the usual crooked officiating, but until the team calls it out, they deserve to suffer).
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Me and my friends joke but we say things like “careful, don’t play too well, the oilers might send you down after a solid effort like that”
philp looked great. f***ing caggiula was at least hitting people.
Our collective management team is utterly incompetent. We are the New York jets of the nhl. That’s not a good thing….
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Knoblaugh really gonna get himself fired because he can't coax offense from this group huh? lol, Joel Quinnville somewhere smiling.
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That was no more conclusive than 2004...it was also a 2-0 penalty call not a 2-1 call so double burn. You look at it for 8 minutes, can't see the goal line, but overturn the save of the year
League is full of poo
I could see space between the puck and the crossbar. It was a good goal, but, my god, Wolf was THIS CLOSE to making that absolutely spectacular save.
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what happened with zary tonight? 0pts, -1 but got the 2nd star ahead of backlund's 1g, 1a, +2. Mind you, he did have 5 shots... He must've been flying out there.
