GDT: Happy New Year!! Game #39 : Kings vs. Vancouver - Saturday, 12/31/’11 @ 7:00 pm PST

[Puck U]

GAME #39 : Los Angeles KINGS vs. Vancouver CANUCKS   MATCHUP   vs. LOS ANGELES KINGS VANCOUVER CANUCKS (38 gp : 18-14-6 = 42 pts) (38 gp : 24-12-2 = 50 pts) 2nd Pacific / 8th West / 13th NHL 1st NorthWest/ 2nd West / 3rd NHL Lost OT 1 Streak Won 3 55.3 % WINNING PCT. 65.8 % 10-9-1 @ Home Home/Away 13-7-1 @ Away 5-3-2 LAST 10 7-2-1 2.08g = 30th GOALS PER GAME 3.34g = 3rd 2.26g = 5th GOALS AGAINST 2.37g = 7th -7 GOAL DIFFERENTIAL +36 14.2% = 25th POWER PLAY PCT. 24.8% = 1st 88.0% = 4th PENALTY KILL PCT. 85.9% = 7th 51.0% FACE-OFF WIN PCT. 52.3% Game Time : Saturday Dec./31st/2011 7:00 PM PST Location : Staples Center - Los Angeles, CA. USA TV Broadcast : FOXSPORTS-WEST (HD) : CBC (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 : myp2p.eu : SportLEMON.tv : ************* : LiveStreamHunter.tv : AtdheNet.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

I like our chances against the CANUCKS, I give the KINGS a good shot … GO KINGS GO !!!

POSSIBLE ROSTER MATCH UPS LOS ANGELES KINGS VANCOUVER CANUCKS Forwards Forwards #15 Brad Richardson - #11 Anze Kopitar ‘A’ - #23 Dustin Brown ‘C’ #22 Daniel Sedin ‘A’ - #33 Henrik Sedin ‘C’ - #14 Alex Burrows #48 Andrei Loktionov - #10 Mike Richards - #22 Trevor Lewis #36 Jannik Hansen - #17 Ryan Kesler ‘A’ - #21 Mason Raymond #25 Dustin Penner - #28 Jarret Stoll - #14 Justin Williams #25 Andrew Ebbett - #9 Cody Hodgson - #32 Dale Weise #13 Kyle Clifford - #24 Colin Fraser - #47 Trent Hunter #27 Manny Malhotra ‘A’ - #40 Maxim Lapierre - #24 Mark Mancari {scratched} #19 Kevin Westgarth {scratched} #20 Chris Higgins Defense Defense #7 Rob Scuderi - #8 Drew Doughty #2 Dan Hamhuis - #3 Kevin Bieksa ‘A’ #33 Willie Mitchell - #27 Slava Voynov #23 Alexander Edler - #6Sami Salo #3 Jack Johnson - #2 Matt Greene ‘A’ #41 Andrew Alberts - #4 Keith Ballard {scratched} #27 Alec Martinez, #44 Davis Drewiske {scratched} #52 Alexander Sulzer Goaltending Goaltending #32 Jonathan Quick {expected starter} #1 Robert Luongo {expected starter} #45 Jonathan Bernier #35 Cory Schneider

GO !!! KINGS !!! GO !!! . . . HAPPY !!! NEW !!! YEARS !!! . . . 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: 67 VANCOUVER CANUCKS : - #32 Byron Bitz (RW), On IR w/ Lower-Body Hip/Groin Surgery, is out indefinitely. - #13 Steve Pinizzotto (RW), On IR w/ Upper-Body injury (shoulder surgery), is out indefinitely and will miss the entire season. - #54 Aaron Volpatti (LW), On IR w/ Upper-Body (shoulder surgery), is out indefinitely and will miss the entire season. - #7 David Booth (RW), On IR w/ Lower-Body (sprained right knee), is out 4 - 6 weeks. - #29 Aaron Rome (D), On IR w/ Upper-Body injury (broken thumb), is out 3 - 4 weeks. - #20 Chris Higgins (LW), Day-to-Day w/ staph infection in hand, and is doubtful for Saturday’s game against L.A. Kings. Current man games lost due to injury: 122 NHL.com Standings :DIVISION : CONFERENCE : LEAGUE NHL.com Team Stats: LOS ANGELES KINGS : VANCOUVER CANUCKS ESPN Team Stats :LOS ANGELES KINGS : VANCOUVER CANUCKS FOX Spots - GAME TRAX : http://msn.foxsports.com/nhl/gameTrax?gameId=2011123108 FOX Spots - Head to Head Team Results : http://msn.foxsports.com/nhl/depthch...Id=2011123108& TSN.ca ( Game Day ) : http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/scores/gameday/?hubname=nhl-kings 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 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 (Off The Post: HAPPY NEW YEAR'S !!! Edition) : http://kings.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=608906 LAKings.com News (Kings place Gagne on IR) : http://kings.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=608504 LAKings.com News (Kings to honor Daryl Evans, Jan 2nd) : http://kings.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=607925 LAKings.com News (Mike Richards activated) : http://kings.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=607800 LAKings.com News (Team LA Holiday Specials) : http://kings.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=607771 LAKings.com News (Kings Hire Darryl Sutter as Head Coach) : http://kings.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=607323 LAKings.com News (Moreau Joins Manchester Monarchs) : http://kings.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=606808 LAKings.com News (Manchester Monarchs take over 1st Place) : http://kings.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=606614 LAKings.com News (LA Kings Statement on Murray Decision) : http://kings.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=606136 LAKings.com News (Terry Murray Relieved of his Duties) : http://kings.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=606083 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 (NHL approves 4-conference realignment) : http://kings.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=604903 NHL.com News (NHL 2011-12 ALL-STAR Ballot VOTING) : http://vote.nhl.com/:b=ie9/?intcmpid...banner#/ballot TSN.ca (Power Rankings Week 13 - Dec 28, Kings #25 (25th last week)) : http://tsn.ca/fantasy_news/rankings/nhl/ ESPN.com (Power Rankings Week 13 - Dec 26, Kings #22 (22nd last week)) : http://espn.go.com/nhl/powerrankings ESPN.com (Melrose On Sutter's Arrival In L.A.) : http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=7374354 ESPN.com (Kings seem misguided in hiring Sutter) : http://espn.go.com/nhl/story/_/id/73...ed-calculation FOXSpots.com: (Power Rankings Week 12 - Dec 26, Kings #20 (22nd last week)) : http://msn.foxsports.com/nhl/powerRankings LATimes.com (Darryl Sutter is ready to make some noise with the Kings) : http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-...,625592.column HockeysFuture.com (Los Angeles Kings Depth Analysis, Fall 2011, by Josh Deitell) : http://www.hockeysfuture.com/article...ysis_fall2011/ HockeysFuture.com (Hockey's Future Organization Rankings, Fall 2011, Kings #5) : http://www.hockeysfuture.com/article...s_fall2011110/ LAKings.com RECAP of Last Game, vs. WINNIPEG JETS : http://kings.nhl.com/club/recap.htm?id=2011020547 LAKings.com Post-Game BoxScore : JETS -1 : Kings - 0 http://www.nhl.com/scores/htmlreport...2/GS020547.HTM [B]LAKings.com Post-Game Summary / Notes : http://www.nhl.com/scores/htmlreport...2/GS020547.HTM Kings Talk Radio Replay (Nov. 8TH) : http://kings.nhl.com/club/podcastplayer.htm?pid=59 LAKings.com Game Notes @ VANCOUVER CANUCKS, File : http://kings.nhl.com/v2/ext/news/gam...31-11vsVAN.pdf *(PDF file, printable & packed full of Info!) LAKings.com Game Preview Link : http://kings.nhl.com/club/preview.htm?id=2011020567 LAKings.com Notebook (Dec 28 : Road trip becomes family affair) : http://kings.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=608556 LAKings.com Notebook (Dec 21 : Sutter Takes on His First Practice) : http://kings.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=607659 LAKings.com Notebook (Dec 20 : Lombardi Gets His Man) : http://kings.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=607461 LAKings.com Notebook (Dec 14 : A Major Shake-Up) : http://kings.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=606471 LAKings.com Notebook (Dec 5 : Brown sees room for offensive improvement) : http://kings.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=604844 LAKings.com Notebook (Dec 2 : Mitchell, Richards to miss games) : http://kings.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=604449 L.A. Kings (Official Twitter) : https://twitter.com/LAKings L.A. Kings (Official FaceBook) : http://www.facebook.com/LAKings TSN.ca ( ICECHIPS ) : http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/icechips/ VANCOUVER CANUCKS: Official NHL Website : HF 'Canucklehead' Board GDT VANCOUVER CANUCKS (Official Twitter) : http://twitter.com/#!/VANCANUCKS : VANCOUVER CANUCKS (Official FaceBook) : http://www.facebook.com/CANUCKS CANUCKS Game Notes: http://canucks.nhl.com/club/page.htm...van-nglg-notes : CANUCKS Report : http://canucks.nhl.com/club/page.htm...id=DL|VAN|home Vancouver Sun Newspaper, Canucks Page : Vancouver Sun 'One-Timers' Canucks Blog : Cam Cole's Canucks Blog

KINGS look to ring in New Years Eave with a Victory against the CANUCKS

COACH & PLAYER QUOTES Originally Posted by Forward & Alternate Captain ANZE KOPITAR, on OT Loss : "If you get a two-minute 5-on-4, you’ve got to capitalize on that, or just under two minutes. We had enough power-play chances tonight, and we didn’t bear down. It came back to bite us in the (butt). They (the Jets) were skating pretty hard. That’s obviously their game. Their home crowd was amazing tonight. You expect nothing less than for them to come out strong and try to put pressure on us. I think, the bottom line is, we worked hard and we got three out of four points (on the trip). The road trip was not that bad, if you get three out of four. We’ve got to make sure we go home now and take care of business at home. Definitely (getting the power play going would be the answer to problems…) it would be, to get some confidence back and everything. We’ve just got to do the things that make you successful. Tonight we were moving the puck, but we just couldn’t finish it off. We’ve all seen it. If you can’t finish it off, eventually it will come back and bite you, and it did tonight." Originally Posted by Goaltender JONATHAN BERNIER, on OT Loss : "Why does le’ Offense no like me ? They le’ stinky Po Po every time I Le’ play … I le’ Hate you guys !" Originally Posted by Head coach DARRYL SUTTER, on Game : "We played hard. We wanted to get through the first (period). They’re a really good first-period team, if you look at their offense and what they’ve done in the first periods this year. I think they’ve scored 40 of their goals. I thought we got through that. Then we had the opportunity 5-on-3 and they have the opportunity 5-on-3. It’s tough. It’s better to look at it the other way, and take the point. (on whether it’s a point earned or a point loss…) Hey, it’s the NHL. That’s why I said, you just stay positive. The positive is the (one) point. We played two games in less than a day, really. We get in here at 2:30 morning. We talked about trying to put ourselves in a playoff spot by the end of this trip, so they did a good job with that. (on Jonathan Bernier’s game…) He was really solid. I thought there were a couple times early where he probably didn’t handle it as well as he wanted, but then as the game went on, he was really smothering pucks. Pucks stayed in on him. He kept trying to get us whistles. That’s what I kept telling him (to do) during timeouts, because I wasn’t sure how much energy we had, so he did a good job." * ( see for more details and other game day news, notes & quotes.)

LET'S GO KINGS !!! & HAPPY NEW YEARS !!!

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[deeshamrock]

Should be a good game, and looking for Quick to do his stellar work. I would love to see Richards put the Sedins in their place and bag a goal t o boot.

This is an interesting comment from LA KINGs insider at today's practice

. More notes and quotes to come, including why Sutter thinks the Kings’ power play has been “awesome.”

Okay, Sutter doesn't strike me as the biting sarcasm type. What on earth does he see in the PP that mere mortals don't???

[Muzzinga]

since when did the Canucks get so many points

[Shellz]

Hopefully the Canucks know that it's a hockey game and not a swim meet.

[TonySCV]

Happy New Year all!

[KopitarFAN]

Originally Posted by Shellz

Hopefully the Canucks know that it's a hockey game and not a swim meet.

Don't count on it.


Just like vs Chicago, expecting the worst.

[Telos]

Clean slate. Let's start the New Year as a contender renewed. Happy New Year all! GO KINGS!

[Cruel11]

#Mike Richards is going to be on HNIC after hours

Hope someone puts it on youtube later.

[Mr. Canucklehead]

Best of luck tonight, guys. Just a minor quip on the GDT - Baumgartner is in the AHL, and Tambellini no longer plays for the Canucks (signed a three year deal in Switzerland over the summer).

Hoping for a good game!

[Sydor25]

Kings Darryl Sutter - 'virtually all our practice time is on offense. Team needs to play more in middle of ice. Too much perimeter work'

Baby steps....


SUTTER: “Quite honestly, from all the tape I’ve watched, and being with them, the one thing we’re trying to do more is get guys in the middle of the ice. We were a real perimeter power play, like fadeaway jumpers. They’re highlight films, but not very often are they goals. So we’re just trying to get more to the middle of the ice, that sort of thing.’’

[Chazz Reinhold]

Originally Posted by Sydor25

Kings Darryl Sutter - 'virtually all our practice time is on offense. Team needs to play more in middle of ice. Too much perimeter work'

Baby steps....

It's good he's at least recognizing the problem, though.

[TwzKing]

I hate not going to this game but going to la tonight and drinking is a no no

[The Dingo]

This is the biggest game left in our schedule for 2011!!!!

[jml87]

This game is going to go past midnight for me. Weird.

[KINGS17]

Originally Posted by Chazz Reinhold

It's good he's at least recognizing the problem, though.

Step #1.

Now let's hope that they rapidly address numbers 2 - 9.

[johnjm22]

Score some damn goals.

[agentfouser]

Originally Posted by Sydor25

Kings Darryl Sutter - 'virtually all our practice time is on offense. Team needs to play more in middle of ice. Too much perimeter work'

Baby steps....


SUTTER: “Quite honestly, from all the tape I’ve watched, and being with them, the one thing we’re trying to do more is get guys in the middle of the ice. We were a real perimeter power play, like fadeaway jumpers. They’re highlight films, but not very often are they goals. So we’re just trying to get more to the middle of the ice, that sort of thing.’’

YES x 1 million. The Kings did this fairly well against Chicago, and then promptly went back to the perimeter against Winnipeg. I hope Sutter can get them attacking the middle of the ice consistently.

[butteryslugz]

Originally Posted by Mr. Canucklehead

Best of luck tonight, guys. Just a minor quip on the GDT - Baumgartner is in the AHL, and Tambellini no longer plays for the Canucks (signed a three year deal in Switzerland over the summer).

Hoping for a good game!

line them hoes up!

[HansH]

Originally Posted by johnjm22

Score some damn goals.

THIS. And, did I mention.... THIS?!?!

[KingsKnight]

Going to the game tonight. Boys better be ready. Win for first!

[MsWoof]

You can tweet a question for Richards to Scott Oakes. https://twitter.com/#!/ScottOake is his twitter handle.

[deeshamrock]

Mike Richards is going to be on HNIC after hours

thanks for the heads up....


I'm not familiar with their website but they seem to have a lot of live streams, when you click onto the blue HNIC after hours with Richards the featured guest (bottom right) this comes up
http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockeynight...erhours/video/
Would that be for a live stream later??? Or maybe they load it up after and there is a live steam link on the main page.

Also, for anyone who didn't catch the Flyers Rangers alumni game, it was pretty good. Lindros looks like he could still play...nice setup to LeClair on the first goal.
And Bernie Parent made 5 pretty good saves (played the first 5 minutes ) still moves pretty good for a 66 year old who hasn't played in 30 years.

One of my favorite all time players Shjon Podein (podes) scored the game winner.

[vt89*]

Look forward to the game. Staples Center has become a nice little place to play with our home crowd advantage.

[bobafettish*]

Originally Posted by vt89

Look forward to the game. Staples Center has become a nice little place to play with our home crowd advantage.

GTFO



hopefully DD doesnt play like a moron this time around.

[backhander]

Happy New Year everyone. Let's end the year well....GO Kings!