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PuckinUgly57
Don't be a jabroni.
Game day, hopefully a much better effort is put out after the Calgary debacle. Can't be any worse right? Somehow I don't even believe myself, this team is all over the map this season. Contender to pretender to somewhere in between - that's what happens when you don't have a team identity.
Seems like this team is built for offense but wants to play a checking defensive style; which is fine if you have assembled the personnel to do that which they simply have not.
Regardless, need a bounce back against the Jets who are in a slump of their own. They're 3-6-1 in their last 10 (6 losses in a row), 1 PPGF in the last 20 attempts and the first line of Scheifele/Connor/The Legend has been out shot 95-69 this season as a trio and outscored. That said, they have something most teams don't, and that's a Vezina winner (most likely this year too).in Hellebuyck to offset the shoddy play but can steal a game.These guys were in first place in the league in December so they've experienced a fall like LA has.
Brossoit is supposed to start tonight however, and we will see all the ex Kings sans Euro HOS who was on late in their practice indicating he will be a healthy scratch yet again. Looks like he's getting the Arty Retardy treatment in Manitoba but hey, thats what happens when you've been given opportunities and can't deliver. I'm I'm 100% support of that including Kaliyev, he was only inserted because Turcotte got injured again. Otherwise we would not have seen him in an LA uniform again me thinks and will be gone this summer.
Akil Thomas took line rushes with Kaliyev and Lewis so he will be in a B6 role to start. Dunno practiced but is 50/50, my guess is he doesn't go tonight again. Not this close to the POs and risking further injury to an important player. Talbot first off the ice so he is the projected starter tonight.
The Kings can come back home at 2-2 on this 4 game road trip if they win tonight, a 1-3 trip would be quite a disappointment. 2-2 isn't great either but considering how they were manhandled in both the Edmonton and Calgary games, I'll take .500 coming back to LA. Every point is important right now.
Prediction: Jets 4-3, The Legend with 3 points because...it's LA. PLD gets another one against his former team. Hope I'm wrong again and the Kings win, 6pm start time on BSW.
Let's Go Kings!
Seems like this team is built for offense but wants to play a checking defensive style; which is fine if you have assembled the personnel to do that which they simply have not.
Regardless, need a bounce back against the Jets who are in a slump of their own. They're 3-6-1 in their last 10 (6 losses in a row), 1 PPGF in the last 20 attempts and the first line of Scheifele/Connor/The Legend has been out shot 95-69 this season as a trio and outscored. That said, they have something most teams don't, and that's a Vezina winner (most likely this year too).in Hellebuyck to offset the shoddy play but can steal a game.These guys were in first place in the league in December so they've experienced a fall like LA has.
Brossoit is supposed to start tonight however, and we will see all the ex Kings sans Euro HOS who was on late in their practice indicating he will be a healthy scratch yet again. Looks like he's getting the Arty Retardy treatment in Manitoba but hey, thats what happens when you've been given opportunities and can't deliver. I'm I'm 100% support of that including Kaliyev, he was only inserted because Turcotte got injured again. Otherwise we would not have seen him in an LA uniform again me thinks and will be gone this summer.
Akil Thomas took line rushes with Kaliyev and Lewis so he will be in a B6 role to start. Dunno practiced but is 50/50, my guess is he doesn't go tonight again. Not this close to the POs and risking further injury to an important player. Talbot first off the ice so he is the projected starter tonight.
The Kings can come back home at 2-2 on this 4 game road trip if they win tonight, a 1-3 trip would be quite a disappointment. 2-2 isn't great either but considering how they were manhandled in both the Edmonton and Calgary games, I'll take .500 coming back to LA. Every point is important right now.
Prediction: Jets 4-3, The Legend with 3 points because...it's LA. PLD gets another one against his former team. Hope I'm wrong again and the Kings win, 6pm start time on BSW.
Let's Go Kings!