The Kings saved their worst for last (5-1 loss to Dallas), we’ll recap a near disaster of a road trip and talk about the first half of the season coming to and end and more on this edition of Locked on LA Kings.
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Tough roadtrip indeed! And while I’m glad the roadtrip is finally over, I’m not all that relieved because the Kings home record is nothing to brag about either. We had plenty of chances against Dallas, but seems like Kempe, Kopi and others are shooting pucks wide and just missing the net. This is a theme with them lately and it’s frustrating cus you can’t even go after rebounds when the puck’s aren’t even on net! Kopi has been looking off and very tired and slow lately. Maybe he and the rest of the team just need a rest, maybe a new coach, maybe both…but anyhow, as always, Go Kings Go
Breath , let us focus.
Enjoy your time.
Talbot had some huge saves over the road trip. Whether or not the team has played well or poorly in front of him he always plays super solid. When the score is 5-1 you gotta look at the team in front of him and what they can do to win games.
It’s so frustrating how Kings management jerk the kids around in regards to giving them playing time. Grrr
Watch. Kings will get another winning streak, and it will be all sunshine and rainbows. People will be telling how dare I criticize this team like they did before, and all of these hard times will be forgotten. The problem I have with that is that necessary changes will not be made. People will think this is a Cup team when it is really not. I would move Byfield, Kaliyev, and Spence for the right guys. All will be decent to nice players if they stay out of trouble, but I don't believe there are any game breakers here. Grundstrom can go, too. Whatever. I want to see some leader types who will be in there creating havoc…mixing it up if you will and telling untradeable cruisers like Dubs and wannabe Datsyukians like Fiala to quit the rubbish. That is what the team needs. That is the only way. I think Byfield is good, but I don't really believe he is that guy. If they can move him for a good return, then they should. I mean…I've been wrong before. I didn't believe in Jack Hughes either, and he is a big star now, but I was kinda right. Hughes had to adapt his game to succeed, and he was able to do so because of his tremendous skating ability and hands, but at the end of the day, I was wrong overall. Long story short, I could be wrong.
I don’t know if I’m the only one but does Kopitar look like he’s slowing down? I feel we need to ease the load, I know he leads in points but maybe put him down on the 3rd line for a little and PLD up with Byfield and Kempe, he was relatively good with Fiala and really good with Kempe for those two games, and who knows maybe the play of Laf And Kalyiev would improve? Also we don’t need JAD, include Fagemo into the lineup for a few games, not just one and back to the minors.
I was very impressed with Rittich's play and win against the Canes. I'm thinking he's playing better than Talbot right now. Admittedly, he hasn't played much.
We got a coach who can’t discipline the players! He is soft as fuck and can’t wake them up!
Nice to see Blakes trades not working out, developed players doing well elsewhere and hoping Quicky gets his 4th cup. I wonder when everyone will recognize this is a failed shark v2.0. TM is a horrible pig of a coach.
Fire TM!
Fire Blake!
Quicky getting his Cup in Vegas was the greatest dong slap in the face to blake! Mf wanted to keep Quick off the plane and traded him for peanuts!
When Talbot is your all star rep you know theres a problem Dubois was a garbage dump Blake bought into.
Considering Edmonton had a slump also im sure Kings don't get past oilers round 1 again.
Thanks Ed, I appreciate your input on the Kings as always.
🇦🇺 #GKG
Fagemo won't actually play in LA until the Kings find out more about Arvi.
Fagemo call up was just an insurance policy had any players get injured during the pregame skate.
Since no player was injured he was sent back. He is right next door now with the Kings coming home and they could use him then.
They won't burn his 30 day or 10 game call up without being exposed until they really need to. Once they call him up the clock starts ticking
I think Fagemo spends the season in Ontario but next season he is a shoe in for the 13th forward at the very least and will spend the entire season next season in LA.
We are all frustrated, but at least we still have games in hand. I got nothing else good to say 🫤🏒 thanks for your thoughts Eddie
Eddie, I agree with you that not playing Fagemo is a head scratcher. He's earned it, and a needed right hand shot to boot. It ranks up there with starting 4 left handed defencemen and having Spence watch on the first game of the season. As far as Dubios goes, he actually has the same numbers of points after the same number of games when he started at Winnipeg. The next two years was better and he came as advertised.
Travel rigors? Tmac is clown world. Players aint doing it. Gruny needs to go. Anderson is way overrated to be playing w DD. Bring up the youth. Dolan is not the answer.
Eddie we all have no idea what the Kings are doing and what's even worse is the Kings totally have no clue no idea! Thanks to BLAKE he needs to go even before the Coach just the Last 3 contracts he wasted are the worse in the NHL starting with Tmac 5Mill a year the highest paid coach in NHL Cal Petersen 5Mill per year for 3 years a Bust and the Bust of the decade PLD 8.5Mill for whopping 8years playing 3rd line center not even worth 1Mill per production!
Great show, thanks for well-reasoned, calm-headed discussion of the LA Kings.