We are in Edmonton again and hopefully we will continue to dominate like we did against Calgary. When Lombardi apologized to the Oilers organization I thought, oh oh, here comes a trade. Possibly Hemsky. Well, I don’t know about you but we already have our “Hemsky” with Gagne. Isn’t trading for a consistently hurt player getting old to you? I would never give us one of our D men for Hemsky. The Oilers need defense and our defense is so great right now. If it ain’t broke – don’t fix it!
Kopi is feeling fine and after that hit the other night I was convinced he would have at least a broken nose or hurt shoulder. But Anze is a beast! Back up the next game and scores a goal. Richards also added a goal against Calgary to break his slump of no goals in nine games. Now hopefully we can get him back to a goal a game.
The Oilers are 13th in the West to our 7th place in the standings. The Kings have 52 pts and Edmonton has 36. The Oilers came out strong the beginning of the season but have petered out along the way losing to the Sucks 5-0 their last game. Vegas has the Kings winning 5-2 on the sports betting. Go gambling!
A Few Notes:
- Bernier in net tonight to give Quick a much needed rest
- Kings are now 7-1-4 under Sutter
- Richards and Kopitar are tied for the team high in goals
- Greene has a career high in goals per season with 3
- Kopitar has 399 NHL pts – he could get # 400 tonight
Kings Line Up:
# 23 Brown– # 11 Kopitar – # 14 Williams
#25 Penner – # 10 Richards – #28 Stoll
# 15 Richardson– # 48 Loktionov – # 22 Lewis
# 13 Clifford – # 24 Fraser – # 47 Hunter
# 8 Doughty – # 7 Scuderi
# 27 Martinez –# 33 Mitchell
# 22 Greene – # 3 Johnson
# 45 Bernier
# 32 Quick
Edmonton Oilers
#4 Taylor Hall – #89 Sam Gagner – #83 Ales Hemsky
#94 Ryan Smyth – #10 Shawn Horcoff – #28 Ryan Jones
#57 Anton Lander – #20 Eric Belanger – #91 Magnus Paajarvi
#12 Josh Green – #42 Ryan O’Marra – #55 Ben Eager
#5 Ladislav Smid – #44 Corey Potter
#25 Andy Sutton – #58 Jeff Petry
#24 Theo Peckham – #33 Colten Teubert
#35 Nikolai Khabibulin
#40 Devan Dubnyk
Go! Kings! Go!
Posted in: Regular Season
hockeyjockey
January 15, 2012
I made my bet at FF..
got 15-1 and 10-1
When did DD apoligize to Edmonton???
I just hate working so much I miss …anything.. lol
GO KINGS GO!!!
tracykingslover
January 15, 2012
It was a few days ago. I immediately thought he did it just so we could trade again. But seriously? no way. At least I hope no way. I’m done with Edmonton. Now, if he want to talk Tampa
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2012/01/kings-nhl-dean-lombardi-.html
hockeyjockey
January 15, 2012
Who do you want?
Game time!
GO KINGS GO!!!
tracykingslover
January 15, 2012
UPDATE- Quick in goal
tracykingslover
January 15, 2012
I’d love to get St. Louis from Tampa. That would be a dream winger for Kopi. Unfortunately, I would not like to even contemplate what that would take to get.
hockeyjockey
January 15, 2012
Thought that was who you say
I think he is a Lightening for life.
Hope you all watched the mike up on Doughts
That is EXACTLY what I mean when talking about his youth. No way should he jave been stuck dealing with that contract and holdout. His parents should have stepped in. Difference in maturity between him and JmfJ is huge. They all mature at their own pace.
Let’s GO KINGS GO!!!
tracykingslover
January 15, 2012
Crappy 1st. At least we are picking it up a bit in the 2nd
tracykingslover
January 15, 2012
ok, crappy 2nd too!
tracykingslover
January 15, 2012
ok, 2 games in 22 hrs. I’ll take the one point!