GDT: Game #53 : KINGS @ HURRICANES - Saturday, 2/4/’12 @ 4:00 pm PST

[Puck U]

GAME #5 : Los Angeles KINGS @ Carolina HURRICANES   MATCHUP   vs. LOS ANGELES KINGS CAROLINA HURRICANES (52 gp : 25-17-10 = 60 pts) (53 gp : 19-25-9 = 47 pts) 2nd Pacific / 7th West / 13th NHL 5th SouthEast / 15th East / 27th NHL Lost 1 STREAK Won 1 57.7 % WINNING POINTS % 44.3 % 10-6-6 @ Away HOME / AWAY 13-12-3 @ Home 5-2-3 LAST 10 5-3-2 2.12g = 30th GOALS PER GAME 2.55g = 19th 2.08g = 3rd GOALS AGAINST 3.02g = 27th +/-E GOALS DIFFERENTIAL -29 15.5% = 21st POWER PLAY PCT. 15.5% = 20th 86.8% = 5th PENALTY KILL PCT. 78.5% = 26th 50.6% FACE-OFF WIN PCT. 50.4% Game Time: Saturday Feb./4th/2012 4:00 PM PST Location: RBC Center - Raleigh, NC. USA TV Broadcast: FOXSPORTS-WEST (HD) : FS-CR (HD) : NHLN-US (HD) : NHL CenterIce * (check your local area listings, black-out restrictions may apply) Radio Broadcast: LA Kings.com Radio Player /or KTLK 1150 AM On-Line Link Note : * (Kings Radio Pre-Game w/ Nick Nickson & Daryl Evans on 30 min before game time, and Kings Talk on after every Home Game) FREE Online Video Streams : FirstRowSports.EU : myp2p.eu : SportLEMON.tv : ************* : AtdheNet.TV : atdhe.tv : LiveStreamHunter.tv : hockeywebcasts.com : Yahoo Online Stream : HockeyStreams.com {Pay-Site} (links to online feeds provided but not guaranteed to always be active or working.) = - = Game Not Started = - = Scoreboards : NHL : CBS : Yahoo : TSN.ca : ESPN

KINGS take on HURRICANES on road, will they weather the Storm?

POSSIBLE ROSTER MATCH UPS LOS ANGELES KINGS CAROLINA HURRICANES Forwards Forwards #23 Dustin Brown ‘C’ - #11 Anze Kopitar ‘A’ - #14 Justin Williams #19 Jiri Tlusty - #12 Eric Staal ‘C’ - #15 Tuomo Ruutu #13 Kyle Clifford - #10 Mike Richards - #25 Dustin Penner #53 Jeff Skinner - #20 Riley Nash - #36 Jussi Jokinen #15 Brad Richardson - #28 Jarret Stoll - #22 Trevor Lewis #14 Andreas Nodl - #16 Brandon Sutter ‘A’ - #39 Patrick Dwyer #48 Andrei Loktionov - #24 Colin Fraser - #47 Trent Hunter #21 Drayson Bowman - #37 Tim Brent - #13 Anthony Stewart {scratched} #19 Kevin Westgarth {scratched} #59 Chad LaRose Defense Defense #7 Rob Scuderi - #8 Drew Doughty #6 Tim Gleason ‘A’ - #5 Bryan Allen #33 Willie Mitchell - #27 Alec Martinez #44 Jay Harrison - #28 Justin Faulk #3 Jack Johnson - #2 Matt Greene ‘A’ #8 Jaroslav Spacek - #4 Jamie McBain {scratched} #44 Davis Drewiske, #26 Slava Voynov {scratched} #27 Derek Joslin Goaltending Goaltending #32 Jonathan Quick #30 Cam Ward {expected starter} #45 Jonathan Bernier {expected starter} #35 Justin Peters

GO !!! KINGS !!! GO !!! . . . GO !!! KINGS !!! GO !!! . . . GO !!! KINGS !!! GO !!! . . .

KINGS ROYAL REPORT: Injury Updates, Stats, News & Notes LOS ANGELES KINGS : - #21 Scott Parse (LW), On LT-IR w/ Lower-body injury, will have season-ending surgery on both hips in the near future. - #12 Simon Gagne (LW), On IR w/ Upper-Body Injury (concussion), out indefinitely. Current man games lost due to injury: 100 CAROLINA HURRICANES: - #25 Joni Pitkanen (D), On IR w/ Upper + Lower-Body Injuries (Concussion / Knee Surgery), out indefinitely maybe an early March return. - #33 Brian Boucher (G), On IR w/ Lower-Body Injury (groin), out indefinitely. - #59 Chad LaRose (LW), Day-to-Day w/ Illness (Flu), questionable for Saturday's game against Los Angeles. Current man games lost due to injury: 120 NHL.com Standings :DIVISION : CONFERENCE : LEAGUE NHL.com Team Stats: LOS ANGELES KINGS : CAROLINA HURRICANES ESPN Team Stats :LOS ANGELES KINGS : CAROLINA HURRICANES FOX Spots - GAME TRAX : http://msn.foxsports.com/nhl/gameTrax?gameId=2012020407 FOX Spots - Head to Head Team Results : http://msn.foxsports.com/nhl/headToH...Id=2012020407& The Hockey News, FORECASTER - Tale Of The Tape : http://forecaster.thehockeynews.com/...ey/tott.cgi?LA LAKings.com e-Media Guide 2011-12 : http://kings.nhl.com/v2/ext/publicat...mediaguide.pdf LAKings.com e-Media 2010-11 Year Book : http://www.azbycx1928.com/dfd22211/ L.A. Kings Home Page's : LA Times : Daily News : CBS Spotsline : TSN : Yahoo : ESPN Clubhouse : The Fourth Period : The Hockey News Magazine LAKings.com News ("Pancakes With Penner" On Feb. 13) : http://kings.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=615085 LAKings.com News (Kings place Gagne on IR) : http://kings.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=608504 LAKings.com News (Loud & Clear, Darryl Sutter Feature) : http://kings.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=609695 LAKings.com News (Kings Hire Darryl Sutter as Head Coach) : http://kings.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=607323 LAKings.com News (LA Kings Ice Crew Calendar Release 2011-12) : http://kings.nhl.com/club/page.htm?i...DL|LAK|IceCrew LA Kings: In The Media (The Hub for ALL the Latest News & Media about Our LA KINGS) : http://lakings.tumblr.com/ NHL.com News (Jonathan Quick Named To NHL All-Star Team) : http://kings.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=611343 FOXSpots.com: (Power Rankings Week 18 - Jan 30, Kings #13 (14th last week)) : http://msn.foxsports.com/nhl/powerRankings TSN.ca (Power Rankings Week 17 - Jan 23, Kings #12 (14th last week)) : http://tsn.ca/fantasy_news/rankings/nhl/ ESPN.com (Power Rankings Week 18 - Jan 30, Kings #11 (12th last week)) : http://espn.go.com/nhl/powerrankings ESPN.com (Barry Melrose On Kings Top 5 plays of 1st Half.) : http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=7504755 ESPN.com (Barry Melrose discusses what Kings will do to make playoffs push.) : http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=7530662 LATimes.com (Darryl Sutter is ready to make some noise with the Kings) : http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-...,625592.column LAKings.com RECAP of Last Game, vs ST. LOUIS BLUES : http://kings.nhl.com/club/recap.htm?id=2011020764 LAKings.com Post-Game Notes : ST. LOUIS BLUES = 1 : KINGS = 0 http://www.nhl.com/scores/htmlreport...2/GS020764.HTM Kings Talk Radio Replay (Last Home Game; Feb. 1 vs. COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS) : http://kings.nhl.com/club/podcastplayer.htm?pid=59 LAKings.com Game Notes vs. CAROLINA HURRICANES, File : http://kings.nhl.com/v2/ext/news/gam...04-12atCAR.pdf *(PDF file, printable & packed full of Info!) LAKings.com Game Preview Link : http://kings.nhl.com/club/preview.htm?id=2011020773 LAKings.com Notebook (Jan 18 : Enjoying the Grind, the 4th Line) : http://kings.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=612416 LAKings.com Notebook (Jan 12 : Sutter set for Homecoming to Calgary) : http://kings.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=611362 LAKings.com Notebook (Jan 11 : Sutter happy with healthy defensemen) : http://kings.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=611211 LAKings.com Notebook (Jan 4 : Bernie Nicholls invited by Darryl Sutter to contribute in practice) : http://kings.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=609942 LAKings.com Notebook (Jan 3 : Loud and Clear, Kings 4-0-3 start under Sutter is making noise) : http://kings.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=609695 L.A. Kings (Twitter) : https://twitter.com/LAKings L.A. Kings (FACEBOOK) : http://www.facebook.com/LAKings TSN.ca ( ICECHIPS ) : http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/icechips/ CAROLINA HURRICANES: Official NHL Website : HF Hurricanes Board GDT CAROLINA HURRICANES (Twitter) : http://twitter.com/nhl_canes CAROLINA HURRICANES (FACEBOOK) : http://www.facebook.com/Hurricanes Raleigh News & Observer Newspaper, Hurricanes Page : Raleigh News & Observer Hurricanes Blog

KINGS look to defeat the HURRICANES and not start a losing streak.

COACH & PLAYER QUOTES Originally Posted by Team Captain DUSTIN BROWN, on Game: "How's your head Arnott ?" Originally Posted by Forward JARRETT STOLL, on Loss: "We just didn’t get enough good quality chances. I don’t think we moved the puck as well as we wanted to, coming out of our zone and in the neutral zone. They’re a good team. They check well. They have good sticks, they move and we’ve got to work harder to get open to make good passes. When you get through the neutral zone, the defensive zone, that’s how you’re going to score goals. We’re not going to score goals, obviously, by playing in the D-zone, so we’ve got to be smoother, be quicker. They don’t give up much. They give up less goals-against than we do. We knew it was going to be a tight, playoff-style game in here, a heavy and hard game. That’s exactly what we got. We just couldn’t find a way to beat Halak. (on needing to break the forecheck with support play…) Short, support plays. Like you saw, when we broke it out clean, sometimes it looks easy but it’s just a good support play. One good pass, one good play, and you can break that. We just didn’t have enough of those. (on only having one power play…) You could tell, early on, that they were going to let a lot of stuff go and it was going to be a hard-fought game. And that’s fine. We’ve got to find ways to score goals. We’re not waiting for the power play. You can’t do that in this game. You’ve got to find ways to generate offense." Originally Posted by Head coach DARRYL SUTTER, on St. Louis Loss : "I think St. Louis has the best home record for a good reason. First period, they play hard. They came out and physically established it with it. We weathered it. I thought our second period was our best period, even though we were down a goal. I think we had probably four or five (chances) that you would consider grade-A chances, and their goalie was better than our shooter. (on struggling with breakout passes…) First period, it’s tough to make the first pass when your friggin’ (butt) is up in the air, from getting knocked on it. After that, we were fine. (on what made Halak tough to beat…) He covered the bottom of the net. I’m only looking at the big opportunities. You have to get the puck over him, and we didn’t. We had three great (chances) where we slid it on the ice, after he was down making a save or on Brownie’s breakaway, and you’ve got to get it up. (on Doughty’s hip-check attempt on the goal…) He was caught on his wrong side. He switched. We switched defensemen on the faceoff, to get righty-lefty, and Robbie (Scuderi) and him switched on the faceoff. He got caught defending on his wrong side of the ice." Originally Posted by Head coach DARRYL SUTTER, on Changes for Carolina Game: "We’re going to put some guys in who didn’t play against St. Louis. It’s possible that there will be a couple line-combination as well, and I will be looking for much more from the centers than I got last night. You look at the matchups. They wanted Backes against Kopitar, and Arnott against Richards, and Berglund against Stoll. That should be all right for us, when you look at it, but when you look at it at the end of the night, their three guys clearly outplayed our three guys. That’s the difference in the game. (Asked how Kyle Clifford fared, in his second-line role...) Hey, we lost. I wasn’t happy with anyone." * ( see for more details and other game day news, notes & quotes.)

LET'S GO KINGS !!!

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[cheap77]

This should be interesting. Second game of a back to back against a non playoff team the day after playing one of those no show games where they got shutout. hmm...... At least score a couple goals to make it somewhat exciting for the fans.

[jml87]

Hey, I can actually watch this one on TV, at home! Too bad it's not any closer, I could go watch.

[ScoreZeGoals]

How about we score a goal this time

[DontgoZiggy]

Might be interesting to see how Ruutu looks against our boys.

[ScoreZeGoals]

Originally Posted by DontgoZiggy

Might be interesting to see how Ruutu looks against our boys.

If he really wants 5+ million a year, I don't care how he looks

[DontgoZiggy]

Originally Posted by ScoreZeGoals

If he really wants 5+ million a year, I don't care how he looks

So did JJ

[drugold]

My psychic ability tells me we will either win or start a losing streak

[FrozenKing18]

This one might be a great game?

[Telos]

Let's have a better offensive effort, shouldn't be too difficult. GO KINGS!

[Shellz]

Hopefully they are ready this time.

[ScoreZeGoals]

Originally Posted by DontgoZiggy

So did JJ

That's why I said "if"

[damacles1156]

Carolina is an awful team Defensively.

If the Kings can't score at least two.

Well....

[backhander]

gotta win this one. have a little more fire than the st. louis game or this won't be a good start to the RO--AD trip.

[BigBrown]

Not gonna be easy playing again in less than 24 hours when arriving in the middle of the night.

[KingKopitar11]

2-1 loss. called it.

[TheSlovenian]

Kings win. Kopi goes crazy and score 4 goals. Yeah, I said it. If Sam Gagner can, so can Kopi.

[Sydor25]

Originally Posted by ScoreZeGoals

How about we score a goal this time

So you want a 2-1 shootout loss?

[stonedhenge]

Originally Posted by TheSlovenian

Kings win. Kopi goes crazy and score 4 goals. Yeah, I said it. If Sam Gagner can, so can Kopi.

He could in his rookie year, but not anymore. He had been brainwashed by Murray&Lombardi to focus only on D and he lost a lot of his offensive power. He could be a "Malkin" for the Kings if they had developed him in a more balanced way (playing more balanced system).

2:1 Canes in OT.

[The Dingo]

Originally Posted by Puck U

GET OVER / FORGET THE LAST ONE ... BECAUSE THE NEXT ONE IS IN ABOUT 18 HOURS ! GO KINGS !!! GO !!!

There's Buddy the Elf's babe again

[kingsholygrail]

Canes win 1-0.

Quick stops 49/50.

[RAZZIE King]

Originally Posted by Little Bunny Foo Foo

There's Buddy the Elf's babe again

They should get a room...

[Tonellisghost]

go kings go!

Go kings go!!

Go kings go!!!

Go kings go!!!!

[Reaper45]

This game has all the makings of a BLOODBATH!!!

[JBernierFan]

Score a goal!