We talk Kings/Oilers, the Kings in 2023 and a look ahead to 2024 with Auston Stanovich of The Hockey News on this edition of Locked on LA Kings.
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8 Comments
Go Kings Go 🤴
Reasonable takes. Especially on the power play regarding right handed shooters. Been bringing it up ever since the Kings traded Vilardi.
Kings have been adjusting by floating DD left but that leaves LA with a left handed forward playing the point.
It can improve i think aside from getting Arvi back. Gotta be a little more creative on opening up Kempe's shot by creating more on the on the left side.
We love to play 1 good period and then give up on the rest of them. The past 10 games they’ve just been playing bad! Basically under .500 last 10 games which is embarrassing!!! We desperately need arvi back as soon as possible cause this team gives up easily now and Todd mcllean once again says good things but doesn’t do anything to fix a thing! Power play still trash, our zone entry is trash, so much more
Happy New Years everyone. Regarding the assessment of kings power play this season, I have some disagreements. Let's start with kings entry. It has become very predictable, and half of the time, kings don't get it set up until it's like 30 seconds left on the pp. The second observation is that the pp units seem to be set in stone with coach McLellan. If ain't working, change things up. Lastly, this team has such players as kopitar, Fiala, kempe, Moore, Dubois in front and doughty, Spence, and Roy on the back end, and this team has issues generating high quality scoring chances? Arviddson has not played in three months and may not play several more. Using his absence as an excuse and banking that the pp will wake up upon, his return is somewhat silly. There is no excuse for kings pp not to be in the top 10 in the league.
Great analysis by Auston. Couldn't disagree with anything he said.
Eddie, This is for feedback Friday. The Kings look like their falling back into the "We beat the bad teams, but not the good ones routine." The Kings look like they are missing that killer instinct. The Dubois trade isn't looking good. Imagine if we had Vilardi, and could of signed another sniper type, and kept Vilardi. We lucked out so far on the 2 goaltenders, but that easily could've been a disaster as well. Everytime we play someone high in the standings, I don't feel comfortable at all. Look at our schedule in January. It's brutal. One other question, when in the schedule do we make up the games at hand? I live in Vegas, and their always playing day of, or day after. How can we be behind 5 games 40 into the season. Is anyone surprised Arvidson got hurt long term again? We need a spark. Everytime we get close to taking over the division, it's as if the Kings say"Wait, we don't ever win the division." I love this team, but I really felt like we had the talent to win the Cup, but losing to these good teams over, and over really makes me nervous, and now the teams below us in the standings are hot. I hope other die hard Kings fans feel more optimistic than I. Happy New Year Eddie!
13:35 “Daddy” 😂
It's simple to analyze: McDrai is way too good for the kings.. The draisaitl goal showed that this two players can make the different if it is counts. Every game between this two teams is tied, is a top game and fantastic to watch!