Episode 34- Ducks & Kings Hockey! Let the Games Begin!

Ever wondered what it takes to bring an NHL team to Los Angeles, or why the Anaheim Ducks and Los Angeles Kings have such a fervent rivalry? Join us on "Royally Quacked" as we unlock some fascinating history, offer a hearty congratulations to our friends at "Late Arrivals" for their 100th episode, and invite you to share why you should be our next Special Guest host. We promise a lively mix of trivia, banter, and audience engagement that keeps the spirit of hockey alive while celebrating our own milestone of 1,500 downloads.

We bring you the latest buzz from the NHL, spotlighting Alexander Ovechkin's legendary achievements and the Dallas Stars' strategic maneuvers. Pay close attention as we dissect the Anaheim Ducks' recent performances, from Lukas Dostal's standout shutout against the Sharks to the team's valiant effort against the Golden Knights. We're all about celebrating the highlights and learning from the challenges as we share our thoughts on players like Pavel Mintyukov and Leo Carlsson, exploring their pivotal roles in recent games.

Our conversation takes a thrilling turn as we delve into the Los Angeles Kings' roller coaster of a season. With dramatic games against Ottawa and Toronto, we analyze pivotal plays and power play strategies, featuring stars like Jeremy Swayman and Anze Kopitar. Our predictions and standings analysis promise to stir up some exciting debates, as we look at surprising team performances and personal connections within the NHL. Through the laughter and competitive spirit, we invite you to connect with us on social media, fostering a community of passionate fans who live and breathe hockey.

Chapters

• 1:02 NHL Podcast Episode Update
• 18:13 Anaheim Ducks' Recent Game Analysis
• 28:34 Anaheim Ducks Roller Coaster Game
• 46:18 NHL Game Analysis
• 56:03 NHL Game Analysis and Player Awards
• 1:09:39 NHL Standings and Predictions Analysis
• 1:25:45 Fan Engagement and Podcast Promotion

Transcript

Gary (00:30)
Welcome back Kings and Ducks fans to Royally Quacked, where I'm Royally and he's Quacked. Hey, Cody how's it going? And doing okay today. A little, eh, not quite 100%.

Cody (00:40)
Hey dad, how you doing?

just OK.

I feel you.

Gary (00:52)
happens when you get old.

Cody (00:54)
Yeah, I know the feeling once you hit.

Gary (00:56)
I do feel a little better tonight than I did earlier, so that's good.

Cody (01:01)
As long as you're feeling better, that's all that matters. Maybe before we get into everything, I just want to say thank you to all our followers and listeners for helping us get to 1500 downloads for Royally Quacked. So thank you very much. I'm just completely shocked that we've gotten that many already.

Gary (01:05)
Hope it stays that way.

care.

Well, that's awesome. this isn't in our notes, Cody, but I want to congratulate Late Arrivals on their 100th episode.

Cody (01:38)
yes, good one. Yeah, congrats on hitting the century mark.

Gary (01:41)
Congratulations guys. You guys are doing a great job. Keep it up. One day maybe we can catch you. If not, that's okay.

Cody (01:51)
That'd be great. We're a little over the third of the way there.

Gary (01:56)
Yeah, we'll work on it.

Cody (01:57)
So, but well, just like real quick, since we hit 1500, I thought it'd be, I'm going to ask you, guess how many countries our podcast has been downloaded in.

Gary (02:13)
Five

Cody (02:15)
Eight eight I know. Actually let me look up all time. hold on. All time. sorry. I'm wrong. 15 total. Yeah, we have the United States, Canada, Germany, Honduras, Sweden, Hong Kong, Brazil, the UK, Australia, Ireland, Saudi Arabia, Denmark.

Gary (02:16)
Eight. I'm impressed. That's awesome.

15 different countries?

Cody (02:45)
Mexico, Japan, and Romania. And we've hit a total of 105 different cities. Thank you, everyone.

Gary (02:53)
Wow. Yeah, thanks everybody. I don't know if you know this, but if you ever listened to the, I know you probably don't, the King's Talk, there's people from Australia that call in and talk to Jesse Cohen on all the King's men.

Cody (03:07)
I bet. is it Spence, Yeah.

Gary (03:12)
Spence is from Australia, Australia, yes.

Cody (03:17)
He's Australian. Because that's one thing because they wanted to make sure he was during therefore the global series last year or or the when were in Australia last year last season.

Gary (03:30)
Yeah.

Cody (03:32)
So thank you again, everyone for helping us get to 1500 downloads. Never would have thought it would have hit that many countries and that many cities.

Gary (03:42)
I have a quick trivia question for your trivia question.

Cody (03:47)
Okay, go for it.

Gary (03:49)
How many Duck fans does it take to attack one King's fan?

Cody (03:57)
Two mighty Ducks fans.

Gary (04:00)
It's been three on the podcast. To one.

Cody (04:01)
sorry. Well, you brought the, that was your guess. Eric was your guess.

Gary (04:10)
Adam was both of our, Eric was both of our guests. Yeah.

Cody (04:12)
No, I know. No, I know. They were both of our guests. I'm saying I'm the one that was able to get Adam on and you're the one that helped to get Eric on. But yeah, we so any any Kings fans, I guess, you know, let us know. Then you guys can team up and talk crap on me.

Gary (04:23)
But yeah, it's OK.

Hey, here's something I'm gonna throw out. It's not in the notes.

Kings fans, send it to the royallyquacked.gmail.com why you should come and co-host with me and Cody. And if possible, we will pick the best one and you'll be on a future episode with us. So if you'd like to try your thing, I'm just, I didn't even tell Cody, I did not tell you about this beforehand. You just.

Cody (04:57)
That'd be great.

No.

Gary (05:04)
that somehow you put that in my head. anyways, so whoever and it has to be a Kings fan this time because we've had two Duck Co. you know, guest hosts. We're going to have a special guest. Actually, they were they're both still special, even though they're they're Duck All Orange fans.

Cody (05:17)
special guest.

Orange Country, let's fly!

Gary (05:30)
Anyways, send us your best reason why you should be on the podcast. Let us read them. We'll say give it a couple weeks. Give it two weeks. We'll bring it up next week too. And hopefully maybe in about three weeks, if possible, we'll have you on and co-host with us.

Cody (05:54)
Yeah, that'd be great.

Gary (05:56)
The challenge is out there. Come on Kings fans, show me how much you love the Kings. All right. So back to you, Cody.

Cody (06:04)
All right, trivia question.

How much did it cost to bring the Kings to get an expansion team in LA?

Gary (06:16)
Back in 1967, Well, probably it was before that. I would say... God, that was... 600,000?

Cody (06:31)
more than that.

Gary (06:34)
A million?

Cody (06:36)
2 million for the fee.

Gary (06:38)
million. Yeah, what's the what's the fee now of billion?

Cody (06:43)
It's going to be probably around a million, a billion or more.

Gary (06:47)
Yeah, it's a billion or more. Yeah, absolutely.

Cody (06:48)
Yeah. So, you want to how much, he spent total to bring the team in and get a new arena and everything.

Gary (07:03)
what does he own the lakers to twenty million

Cody (07:06)
Yes.

19 million you were I'll give you that though because he said he spent 2 million for the expansion fee a million indemnity to the blades for to territorial rights 4.02 million for the forum terrain and 12.2 million for the building for the forum so cook spent 19 million to create the Kings one of the most expensive expansion teams of the period

Gary (07:44)
Yeah, awesome. Now look what it cost. I mean, you're talking one to $2 billion just to get the team, not just the arena.

Cody (07:48)
Yeah, right.

Yeah. And then, yeah. And you have to have a arena already pretty much in placed or before you can even really get your team.

Gary (08:06)
Yeah, well, a lot of times they're using a current one.

Cody (08:10)
Yeah, exactly. Like Seattle already had the climate pledge pretty much. The T-Mobile Arena, I believe, was already built. like Houston, least, you know, they can use the where the Houston Rockets play. Same with the Atlanta Hawks if they were to go there. Quebec City, I believe, still has their arena.

Gary (08:16)
Yeah.

Yeah, the Kings just played two games there in the preseason against Boston and Florida. And that was a fantastic venue from what I heard. I mean, it is older, but boy, you talk about fans.

Cody (08:52)
Yeah, and then if they do end up doing an Oregon team, which I don't think that's in the cards, but at the Portland Trailblazers,

Gary (08:59)
trailblazers. Yeah, well, until they want to build their own if they're that rich.

Cody (09:06)
Yeah, exactly. So, all right. Let's move on to Ducks news, which is going to be short and sweet this week. First bit of news is Isaac Lundestrom is out day to day with an upper body injury. Hopefully he's back. I won't be back tomorrow to play against the Kings. I'm probably expecting him to be back.

for the Tuesday game I believe it's a Tuesday game I can't remember at the top my head who they play but I have it on the notes so I could just go back and look

Gary (09:46)
Are you talking there? Everybody's playing on Frozen Frenzy Night.

Cody (09:51)
that Tuesday.

Gary (09:52)
Tuesday all 32 teams are playing.

Cody (09:54)
Yeah, no, I know that, I just I don't I didn't remember who the ducks were playing exactly that night. think it's the shark. I think the ducks are playing against the sharks. I think it's the sharks. And then and then the roster move today as of six hours ago on the Enhime Ducks Twitter is they have reassigned Jansen Harkins back to the goals and activated Frank Vatrano.

Gary (10:00)
Kings are playing the Vegas Golden Knights.

Cody (10:22)
back to the roster because Frank Vatrano did not play against Colorado because his wife was expecting. So I'm guessing that Frank Vatrano is officially a dad. That's what it seems like. I haven't seen anything on Instagram or Twitter about it, but if I had to guess, he's a daddy now. I'll double check before we get off here, but I haven't seen anything.

Gary (10:33)
Boys.

Well, congratulations, Frank.

Cody (10:51)
from him. we'll move on from there. But that that's it for ducks news.

Gary (10:57)
Well, then I'll go to King's News and funny about Frank Vatrano, but we all know Joel Edmondson missed a couple of games for personal personal leave. And he's returning from that, I think, and playing against the Ducks tomorrow, I think. But he's expecting his first child in the next two weeks. And my understanding is.

The Kings gave him time to go home, get things set up. I mean, obviously, you know, LA is a new home for him to help him set up for a place for his new, new baby to come. So they gave him a couple of games off to go take care of that. And that's where family's more important than business. You know, I'm a, I'm a firm believer it's God, family, yourself, and then work.

So anyways, so the other news is obviously if you've been paying attention and watching the start of the season, you know that Kuemper went out. He's hurt and he's been put on the IR. They did recall Phoenix Copley to be with the big club. Which obviously pulled the backup for the Reign.

And not only that, the Reign, Portillo's out. I don't know what it's about. I tried to find out what it's about. There was very little news about it, but I know Ingham has been called up and also, Barube is, think Ingham is going to be the starter and Barube is going to be the backup. So the Reign have two new goalies. and that is.

King's News for the week. It's not a whole lot, but we do have league news.

Cody (12:54)
Yeah, real quick. I don't know if you saw What the the the you know, like we went to the flock party how the president of the ducks said that they were working on the in-game Entertainment and everything I wonder if you saw any of the videos of what they did it I was I wanted to be there so bad

Gary (13:11)
Mm-hmm.

No.

on

Well, he said it was going to be fantastic. And he said it with so much passion.

Cody (13:22)
It really was it looked Yeah, it the ice because like what they did is like they they're using the ice as like a projected projection screen and It looked so they made it look like water Like it looked like a wild wing thing was coming up and down and it was so cool And then

Gary (13:46)
I do believe the Kings are actually working on their end game thing. That's one reason they haven't had a home game yet. Go ahead.

Cody (13:51)
Well, that'd be cool too.

Yeah. Cause I'll admit that's a, when we went to Seattle and we saw that they had already had that on for their projection screen, like for the ice. And I was like, I was blown away and I was like, man, I really, and I noticed like the Kings didn't really have it either, but I was like, man, like the crack and just got us, you know, was one step ahead. And, but now it's like, but the ducks already finished it. The, it seems like the Kings are going to be done with it soon.

That's great. I'm gonna I'm gonna look forward to going to ducks and Kings games more often now.

Gary (14:30)
Well, just on a note on that about the Kings, supposedly at the start of the next, I think, two pre-seasons, they'll be playing most of their games away because there's other work that's going to be done at Crypto.com. Yeah. We'll see what happens with that. Maybe they'll get it done all during an off-season. But then with all the concerts and other things that go on in the venue, it's really hard to have downtime because...

Cody (14:42)
Really?

Gary (14:59)
not a cheap building to make and maintain and it needs to bring in income. So we'll see what happens with that. But that's I think was the plan. So.

Cody (15:11)
Yeah. And then, the, the ducks announced, I forgot to mention this last week or I don't know if I did or not. but the ducks did, they officially have a new goal song starting this year. they're going, I ever since like last season when they did the whole vans thing and then the offspring collaboration with the same, what, cause they're both from orange County area. the ducks goal song is no longer.

Bro him by Pennywise it is now coming for you by the offspring and I'll admit I it's gonna take me a little bit to get used to so instead of going Now it's gonna be like more like haze or yes Yeah, so It's gonna take a while to get used to I I would have preferred the bro hit keep them have them keep the bro him song, but you know, maybe he's just

Gary (15:57)
Hey!

Cody (16:10)
a new era, maybe start fresh. Cause I believe that was our goal song for like 15 seasons.

Gary (16:19)
yeah it's gonna be hard not to hear that

Cody (16:21)
Yeah, I know. So, and that will be it. So now we can go to league news. All right. Let me pull up the notes. league news is, Cam Talbot is the second goaltender in NHL history to record a shutout for seven, seven different franchises. He did it for Detroit, Edmonton, New York Rangers, Minnesota.

the Los Angeles Kings, the Ottawa Senators and the Calgary Flames. Wow.

Gary (16:57)
Congratulations, Cam. Only the second person ever to do that. That's in the record books, And he's been playing well for the Red Wings. And I'm happy for him because he had so many injury-filled seasons here just before coming to the Kings that it's nice to see that. And he's a nice guy.

Cody (16:58)
Yeah.

He really has.

yeah.

Gary (17:24)
I mean, have you ever heard him in an interview? I mean, he's a humble guy. well, the next bit of league news is Capitals forward Alexander Ovechkin is the sixth player, only six in NHL history to reach 700 plus goals and 700 plus assists in their career. Joining the great one, Wayne Gretzky.

Cody (17:30)
No he is.

Gary (17:55)
Gordie Howe, Jaromir Jagr, another great king in Marcel Dionne, and the famous Bruin, Phil Esposito.

Cody (18:07)
Wow, that's crazy.

Gary (18:10)
Two kings in there. I didn't see any ducks, Cody, for some reason. Hey, I got picked on quite a bit last week, so you should take a little bit back from me.

Cody (18:19)
We also haven't been around long enough either.

I'm All right. last bit of league news is the stars have resigned or not. wouldn't say, sorry. They have signed goaltender Jake Oettinger to an eight year extension worth 8.25 million AAV. Seems like that's yeah. That's like the, that's what I was literally about to say.

Gary (18:30)
Yeah, sure you are.

Seems to be the standard amount now for a really good goalkeeper. And not to mention, Eric, we miss you, but this is gonna be the Vezna trophy winner according to Eric. And if he isn't Eric, you gotta come in and e-crow.

Cody (19:06)
Yeah.

The way it's looking right now looks like Dostal and I'll be the Vezina winner As of right now, but we'll get into that No, know but all right, or let's get into the Ducks games All right. So last week I didn't really get to talk about any games because the Ducks were literally the last team in the league to start their season and Of course and we recorded this

Gary (19:17)
It's pretty early yet, so.

Okay.

Cody (19:40)
day of the game but we recorded it before the game even started. So the Ducks won this game 2-0 over the San Jose Sharks and this game was in San Jose. Each team had 30 shots on goal. Lukas Dostal started this game. I would say it was almost even in the face-off percentage.

The sharks barely beat us out with 54%. Each team went over in the power play. everything was after that, everything else was really about equal, but I could tell you at least the ducks aren't going to be the last team to record a shutout this season. So that's good news. And cause that's how they were last year. They were literally the last team to record a shutout last year.

Gary (20:27)
you

Cody (20:36)
And of course that was Dostal last year and it's Dostal this year. So Isaac Lundestrom scored the first goal for the Anaheim Ducks to start the season with a sis from Brock McGinn and Brett Leason. And I think this may be one of my favorite lines right now. I love them together. So like I said, they've been playing great. I have no complaints about that line.

The only thing is just Lundestroms hurt. So now we got a certain player that who shall not be named playing in that role now. and then Trevor Zegras scores a second goal. and it would end up being an empty netter and we had an assist from Cam Fowler. So I'm going to just tell you this and I believe they said on 32 thoughts as well is

then last like what two or three years, Trevor Zegras would have never been out there playing in a one goal game defending and then look at it now. He's out there playing defense with a one goal game. You know, that's big. And I think it was, I'm glad Cronin's finally starting to see like, Hey, maybe if we get some offensive players out there,

They can help us get out of the zone and or even score and look what happened Trevor Zegras hit hit the empty netter pretty much almost from from red line to red line, so I guess congrats to the anti-hype ducks for Getting the shutout or I should say Dostal to getting the shutout The stars of the game was of course Dostal was number one because he did not let in a single goal

a safe percentage of a perfect. So he stopped all 30 shots. Lundestrom was the second star of the game with one goal and one point. And then the third star was Vanecek. He had a 966 save percentage and he only let in the he only let in the one goal technically. So that is it for that game. Then the Ducks literally play the very next day in Vegas.

And it pretty much went how it normally does playing against Vegas. The Ducks lost this game three to one shots on goal were this 23 for the Ducks and 32 for the Golden Knights. They again almost a close face off. It's getting better. It's not we're not getting out face off as bad as like we were during the preseason or last year.

The Knights won 53.5 % and Ducks won 46.5%. The Ducks were 0-4 on the power play and they gave up one power play goal to the Knights who went 1-4. Troy Terry had the lone goal in this game. Brett Howden scored the first goal for the Golden Knights with assists from Pietrangelo and Kolesar and Troy Terry's was unassisted.

And then Hertl scored the power play goal to break the tie. So that was technically the game winning goal in the third period. And then Pavel Dorodeev, I believe is Dorofeyev. And he scored the third goal in the third period. Again, you know, the Ducks played decent in this game.

Gary (24:06)
They have, yeah, yeah.

Cody (24:23)
I wouldn't say I wouldn't say like it wasn't as bad as I it normally has been against the golden Knights, but James Reimer did was the goalie in this game and he didn't look bad at, I would say at all. He made great saves and everything. You could just tell he wasn't comfortable in some parts of the game. So, you know, but like I said, he just came over. He didn't know anyone from the team. It's different. So

you know, it's going to take him a little bit to get used to. So, but on that, like he didn't look, he didn't look bad or anything like that. So, like I said, it's the golden Knights. They're still always the team that's fighting to win the Stanley cup every year. So, and the ducks are still a bottom feeder trying to work their way out of it. So, like I said, I'm not mad about this game. You know, it's, we didn't look bad, but we didn't, let's just say we didn't look good either.

So that was it for that game. And then we go to the Ducks home opener on Wednesday against the Utah hockey club. And I can tell you this scheme was a roller coaster for any fan.

The Ducks won this game 5-4 in overtime the shots on goal the Utah Hockey Club had 30 and the Ducks had 34 Troy Terry started the scoring off With a second goal the of the season with Ryan Strome and Vatrano getting the assist on that goal I'll get to you is that was a beautiful pass by Ryan Strome and honest. I was like I was watching I was like shoot

I was literally telling him like Strome like, he was right there in the slot and he was like one-on-one with the goal with, Connor Ingram. I was like, shoot. And he passed it over. I was like, what are you doing? And then Troy Terry was just wide open with for a one-timer and put it in. was like, okay, nevermind. We're good. Strome. Good pay. Good play. No problem. but the lead didn't last long about a little over four minutes later, Jack McBain scored his second of the year.

to tie it up and then Barrett Hayton scored a power play goal to take the two one lead going into the second period, but never fear Robbie Fabbri's Fabbri's here. He tied the game up. my God. And I don't know if you saw that pass by Zegras. He was like behind the net and he just backhanded it right through one of the Utah defenders legs, literally just Meg the guy.

And then Fabbri really close, just roofed it right over on the top of the net. It was a great play by Robbie Fabbri. It was like a great pass, great shot by and everything. So that tied the game up at two a piece and then

Gary (27:20)
So just before you go on, how long did it take you to write that Fabbri thing?

Cody (27:27)
I didn't write it. I just literally came up with it on the spot.

Gary (27:31)
You're in the groove today, kid. That was pretty good.

Cody (27:33)
I am.

Thank you. That was literally just off the top of my head.

Gary (27:40)
Well, you did it did it in a couple of places just with that little bit you talked about. So keep going. You're doing good. You're welcome.

Cody (27:47)
thank you. I appreciate it. I feel even better. Thank you. And then Pavel Mintyukov scored his first goal of the season with this is from Brian Dumoulin and Mason McTavish. This was McTavish's second assist of the game. He also had the secondary assist on the Fabbri goal. like I said, Pavel may be the number one to

defensemen on this team. That's all I'm to say right now. so the ducks had a three, two lead going into the third period. And then Utah comes back with Michael Kessering tying the goal, the game up three, three a piece. And then the captain of the Utah hockey club score, he scored to make it four, three.

And that's when I was like, my God, no, don't let this happen on the home opener. But then again, I was like, wait, it's a ducks home opener. They're going to come back and win. And sure enough, Pavel Mintyukov made it happen where he tied the game up with just a little less than five minutes to go with his second goal of the game, which honestly it was all, it was a lucky bounce, but like, but the ducks rarely get those kinds of goals where

it just happens to like, you should shoot it in and see what happens. And that's exactly what Mintyukov did. He just shot it in and it hit, Ingram's top, pad. And he kind of like, he was swimming cause he didn't know where the puck went. So he ended up and he saw that it was like going in between his legs. So usually when the goalie see it go in between, they kind of close their legs. And when he did that, ended up kicking it in. So like I said,

Not it's not Ingram's fault at all. He did what he was supposed to, but that ended up tying the game and forcing overtime. And all I can tell you is Troy Terry made this last goal happen in the overtime. It was going back and forth too. In the, in the overtime. It wasn't like this whole like, learn to swim out and go back. And I was like, God, thank God. Cause I hate those kinds of over times and

Troy Terry did a great four check, kept the puck in the zone. And then you just see Carlsson just swimming up. He gets the puck and he just, just makes, just completely undresses Ingram. The rumor is that Connor Ingram is still like just sliding just to make the first save. Cause Leo went, I believe he's left handed. So he went back hand and then just quickly went forehand and

Ingram just kept going and going and going. And like I said, he's still sliding to this day. So Leo Carlsson got the OT winner. We kept the streak alive. Nine straight home opener wins. So, and, I'm not, I'm not going to say it I'm not, I don't want to say anything about it, but we'll move up. We'll move on to the last game. Actually, hold on before we move on.

Leo Carlsson was the number one star in this game for cause he had a one goal, one assist for with two points. Mintyukov was the second star of the game with two goals and two points. And Dostal was the third star of the game. Onto the game that happened last night. Talk about another roller coaster of a game, but not really at the same time. The

It'll make sense in a sec, but God. Yeah.

Gary (31:41)
I listened to the game, They should have never been in the game.

Cody (31:49)
100%. And yeah, we'll get to that. They were.

Gary (31:51)
But, but, they work. And that's what you got. When you're doing that and you got totally outplayed.

Hopefully, if you come up with a win, you're going, thank my lucky stars. I'm going to be happy and we'll go.

Cody (32:05)
Honestly, I'm saying that now because we got a point in this game. So the ducks, but yeah.

Gary (32:09)
against Colorado, which is an incredibly great team.

Cody (32:14)
Yeah, exactly. the ducks lost the game four to three and over time the shots on goal were 49 to 20. You guys, you did hear that right? Shots on goal were 49 to 20. After the first period, it was 18 shots for Colorado, eight for Anaheim, 17 for Colorado.

three for Anaheim. At least the third period was a bit even. It was nine on shots for Colorado and eight for Anaheim. And then over time it was five to one. So 49 to 20.

face-offs bad, actually even in the Utah game, I forgot to talk about that.

And real quick for the Utah game, the face off percentage was 38.2 % and went over on the power play. There's a reason why I went back to that.

In this game faceoff percentage 61 % for Colorado 39 % for Anaheim power play 1 for 5 for Colorado 0 for 3 for the Anaheim ducks I'm talk about that in a sec or later on in the podcast too but Leo Carlsson got another unassisted goal this week

to make it one, nothing Anaheim on a nice little, just a scramble inside the net. And also I'm gonna give props to the, to the referee on this because most times they usually just call the play dead. But the, forgot the, Georgiev He never had the puck completely sealed off or, under control. was just literally laying on the ice right next to his pad.

And you could tell like Josh Manson was trying to like sweep it under his legs so they can get the whistle. But Carlsson kind of saw that and he just came in like a little bit and just hit the puck right in to take a one nothing lead for the ducks. And then the second game was, or the second, sorry, the second goal was, I'm not going to lie. It was a complete blunder by the referees. They messed up that call bat and I'm not going to deny that. the puck went out of,

did go out of play. hit the netting. Normally when the, the puck hits the netting behind the net or anything, they call it dead and they do a face off. We'll hit the netting and you could tell the avalanche player was like, Hey, you know, ref hit the netting and the ref like pointed out and he's like, no, I don't know if he said like, yeah, I did, but play wasn't dead and everything. And so I believe it was Sam Girard. He just like threw the puck out of the zone.

And it went right to Brian Dumoulin and he passed it right to Ryan Strome. Ryan Strome buried it in. And then everyone was like, Hey, like it went out of play. How come they, you guys didn't call it. But, I didn't know this and I'm, know, so that's another reason why I like watching and listening to all the games is if the puck would have stayed inside the zone. So say if the puck never left the zone and then the ducks scored Colorado could have challenged the play.

And got it revert and it would have been reversed. No hands down. It would have been reversed. And, but since the puck left the zone, it kind of resets. now Colorado had, they couldn't, challenge the play because Girard gave up, gave up the puck and it went out of the zone. So it kind of, so, and I didn't know this at all. And I was like, I did not know that. That's pretty cool. Well, good for us.

bad for Colorado for now. but so the ducks had a two, nothing lead going into the second period. And then luckily we only gave up one goal in the second period. Casey and Mittelstadt, scored the one goal for Colorado to make it to one going into the third period. And then it was the Ross Colton show in the third period. He ended up scoring a power play goal pretty early on in the third period.

and then scored another one to take the lead three to two and then Troy Terry. what the ducks I believe had a they, yeah, they, I know that it was not a power play, but they pulled the goalie, got an extra man on and just a great, this was like the best the ducks looked up. Literally the whole game was this part of the game right here.

Gary (37:02)
Sorry.

Cody (37:16)
The last like two minutes they pulled Dostal and they just kept the puck in the zone. You could tell like everyone in Colorado was just gas. They were done. They were just tired and Troy Terry got the puck and just buried it top shelf. It was just a beautiful shot to tie it up to force overtime. And sure enough, Nathan McKinnon who really didn't do

No, he had let's see. He only had one assist He had a secondary assist on the Ross Colton second goal but he ended up getting the game winner and overtime and Taking the two points away from the Ducks So we lost this game four to three and overtime, but before I can get to that Dostal Was the he was the player of the game this game? hands down

I mean for him to have, was it how many 49 shots and he seemed 45 of them. And I'm not, it wasn't like a, like a 40. I felt like the ducks were on the penalty kill the whole game. Like that's how bad it was. Like they were just getting outplayed. literally looked like Colorado had an extra man the whole time. They were winning every puck battle. They were winning.

Gary (38:20)
49 shots.

Cody (38:47)
Every 50, 50 puck, you know, just Dostal was keeping them in the game. And I don't know if you saw that one save he had on a Rantanen in overtime. my God. I don't know how he saved it with the bottom of his foot or pad or whatever. my God. I was just, I, I literally was like, there it is. And then he said, was like, shit, he saved it. And then, and then McKinnon, you know, end up scoring later, but my God, Lukas

Dostal Let's just say he's not getting paid nearly enough for what he's putting out and everyone on the Anaheim ducks right now, Carlsson, Strome, even Greg Cronin, Pat Verbeek should even pay for every, all every player on the ducks should have to pay for Lukas Dostal's meal. The rest of the year, Lukas should not spend a, not even a penny.

on anything the rest of the season after that performance.

So after that, that's what I'm saying. Like, holy moly. Like that was just.

Gary (39:49)
Vezna Trophy! Vezna Trophy!

What did I tell you in our preseason thing? Who's gonna be the number? And I'm not even, I mean, I'm not a hater. I just don't like them when they play the Kings. I'm not a hater of the team, you know? And I love hockey, so I can appreciate any player on any team. There's a lot of these guys I gotta tell you.

Cody (40:01)
No, and I agreed with you 100%.

Yeah.

Gary (40:23)
If you've never watched Conor McDavid play live, you're not impressed by watching him on TV. Watch him up close. That one game where you couldn't go, me, mom and Tim went and we had pretty good seats. And Conor McDavid is such an impressive athlete. I mean,

Cody (40:35)
Yeah.

my God.

Yeah. Mc, Mc Jesus.

Gary (40:51)
like hands down way better than anybody else on the ice. And they got some really good players on Edmonton too. And the Ducks have a lot of great young players that are gonna be something. I don't know if we'll ever see a Connor McDavid again, just like him. He's incredible. So.

Cody (41:06)
yeah. I think the next closest thing is Nathan McKinnon.

Gary (41:13)
why I picked him number one in the fantasy draft. And he scored the game winner. But they haven't been playing that good. When you think about how they played against the Ducks, they had not been playing very good. Right now, this is what I call the reverse NHL right now. I mean, not that every good team is playing bad, but there's teams all over the place where not where you expect them to be.

Cody (41:17)
And I don't blame you. Yeah.

You

Gary (41:43)
So anyways, we'll go through that when we talk about after the games. So was that it on the Ducks games?

Cody (41:52)
the

That is it on the ducks games. Yes.

Gary (41:58)
So let's go to the Kings game and last podcast, actually we started the podcast somewhere past the halfway, probably two thirds of way mark through this game when the Kings played Boston last Saturday. There was no scoring in the first period. was a definitely, you got two.

Pretty good defensive teams. Expected to be very good defensive teams. No scoring in the first period. But the Kings, Trevor Moore gets his first in the second period on an assist from one part of the law firm, Danault, not Jeannot or Moore, but the Danault part of the law firm had the number one assist or the primary assist, Quinton Byfield.

Cody (42:46)
You

Gary (42:56)
had the second assist and a second of the season. And that was at the 522 mark of the second period. Not to be outdone though, and Elias Lindholm, the big pickup and free agency for the...

Cody (43:19)
Boston.

Gary (43:20)
Yeah, for the Bruins. He scored his second goal on an assist from the hated one, Brad Marchand. Yeah, the rat at 1650. it was both those shots. Actually, the first two goals were both wrist shots, which is I think probably the primary way they score now. The slap shot is that's usually a defenseman from way out that that happens.

Cody (43:31)
the rat.

Gary (43:49)
But most all shots are wrist shots or what they call a snapshot, which is between a wrist shot and a slap shot. but this game, no scoring in third period. the Kings did out shoot Boston 34 26, but in overtime.

David Pastrnak scores his third from Loray in.

Putras, 307 of overtime, it Putras? Patras, yeah. And a 2-1 victory for Boston. So.

Cody (44:21)
Potras? Potras? Potras? Yeah.

Gary (44:31)
We'll go to the three stars of the game. Well, the face-offs... To me, if you're not in the upper 40s, you lost bad. Kings only won 44.9, Boston won 55.1. Kings were 0 for 5, Bruins were 0 for 5 on the power play. Now the Kings are 0 for 10 on the power play after two games, which that's really good.

They were out hit 3226. Yeah, penalty kill, I'm sorry. No, their power plays were both 0 for 5 too.

Cody (44:57)
For the penalty kill, you mean, right? Yeah.

No, but you said the Kings were 0 for 5 on the power play and that's good and that's not

Gary (45:09)
Well, no, I meant over 10 for the season on the penalty kill. They've given up no goals in 10 power play opportunities. My bad. They got out a hit 32-26. Block shots were 19 Bruins, 15 Kings. Giveaways 13 by the Kings, 10. They won that one. It was a good game. It was a good game.

Cody (45:15)
But yeah, you said power play.

Gary (45:36)
But the Kings lost. Let's go. Now we'll go to the three stars. Number one star is part of the goalie group of 8.25. Jeremy Swayman was the number one star. And of course, the game winning goal was scored by David Pastrnak and he ended up having 33 saves on 34 shots. Pastrnak had a game winning goal, one point. He was the number two star. The number three star

Cody (45:46)
Ha ha.

Gary (46:06)
was a star of the game and the first game against Buffalo, Darcy Kuemper. He saved 24 of 26, 923 save percentage, and he was the number three star. So now the Kings are 1-0-1-1 after two games.

Then...

Sorry, I went too far. Then we went to play in Ottawa. And a funny thing happened when you go to Ottawa.

Cody (46:38)
All hell breaks loose.

Gary (46:39)
All hell breaks loose. I still trying to figure this thing out. So first period on the power play, Kevin Fiala scores from Anze Kopitar and Brandt Clark at 812.

Then Trevor Lewis gets his first from Alex Turcotte and Mikey Anderson at the 907. So less than a minute, Kings are up to nothing.

And then, and you have him on your fantasy team, Jake Anderson, or Sanderson, don't you? Yeah, he had a great day for you today. He had like 23 points or something like that. Well, yeah, you're winning right now. It's okay. Got another day, we'll see what happens. Yeah, so Sanderson scores and now it's a 2-1 game.

Cody (47:18)
Yup.

I'm playing against you this week, so I needed it.

For now.

It's still close.

Gary (47:39)
And then after two periods, it's Kings two, Senators one. After one period, yeah. Going into the second period, Adrian Kempe gets his first from Brandt Clarke, his second assist of the game, and Kopitar, his second assist of the season. So now it's three, one. Then the tough guy the Kings had, I think it was last year or the year before?

Cody (47:42)
after one period.

Gary (48:08)
He comes in and scores his first goal, Zach McEwen. It's 3-2 Kings at the 10-26 mark.

Then the Kings take a two-goal lead again on a goal by Alex Laferriere from Burroughs and Kempe at the 11-16 mark. Get used to things happening. Drake Batherson scores his first goal on the power play to make it 4-3 at 15-13 from Sanderson and Norris. Then Thomas Chabot.

Scores from Stutzle and Tkachuk at the 15-32 mark, which is only 19 seconds later, and ties the game 4-4. Then on the power play at 16-25, less than a minute later, it's Kevin Fiala with his second goal of the game from Brandt Clarke, his third assist, and Kopitar. So it's now 5-4 Kings. Then...

The tough guy, Zach McQuinn, scores again tying it up 5-5 at the 17-52 mark, which is just a minute and 27 seconds after the power play goal by Fiala. This is all in the second period, so we are going into the third period, it's 5-5. The Kings have given up more goals.

Over two and a half times more goals than they did in first two games in two periods.

So then we start the third period. At the 338 mark, Alex Laferriere scores to make it 6-5 Kings.

Just shy of two minutes later, Claude Giraud scores on the power play from Pinto and Chabot and ties the game at 6-6.

Then it's Josh Norris on the power play. Are you getting the thing about power plays? Josh Norris scores for Ottawa from Batherson and Tkachuk and now it's 7-6.

Senators.

But then, at the 14-26 mark, unassisted Tanner Jeannot gets his first goal as the king and ties the game at 7-7.

going to overtime. It doesn't even go a minute. Josh Norris scores the second goal from Batherson and Stutzle at the 56 second mark and Ottawa beats the Kings in overtime. Their second overtime loss in a row, 8-7.

Cody (50:53)
Wow.

Gary (50:54)
Let's go to the stars of the game.

Norris obviously the number one star of the game with two goals and assists for three points was the number one. Number two is Zach McIwen with two goals. A guy who could hardly play for the Kings. Obviously he was pissed when he took it out on us. Then the number three star was young defenseman Brandt Clarke. He had three assists for the game. He was the number three star.

Cody (51:13)
Ha ha ha.

No kidding.

Gary (51:27)
Let's go to the Kings won the faceoff 55.9 % to 44.1%. Now here's a funny thing.

Kings were 3 for 5 and 60 % on the power play.

Not to be outdone, auto went 4 for 6. 66.7 % on the power play. Four goals and six attempts.

Ottawa out hit the Kings 26 22 the Kings Dominated the block shots 22 to 10 Giveaways were 15 for the Kings 18 for Ottawa But the end result is the end result The King should have won this game Just like they should have lost the Buffalo game. So I mean to me that's now the seasons at a wash so we'll get

Cody (52:23)
yeah, they should have.

Gary (52:31)
go from that game and then go to Toronto.

Now, believe it or not, the Kings out shot Toronto 34 to 26. But you wouldn't think it when you see the score. Bobby McMann scores in the first period at 654 from Domi and McCabe. Austin Matthews, who hadn't scored a goal, yet that season scored his first from Marner and Ekman Larsen.

Now it's 2-0 Toronto. Bobby McMann, he scores from Nylander and Ekman-Larsen and it's 3-0 after one period. Second period starts.

Morgan Riley scores first from McCabe and Domi at the 756 mark. Nylander gets his third at the 1831 mark from Matthews and Marner. Matthews hadn't had a point in a game yet until he played the Kings. And he was born in California if you didn't know that.

So he came back, he wants to punish the California teams. Look out ducks when he comes, he wants to win. So now it's five nothing after two periods. In the third period, the Kings decided they wanted to play at least a little bit. Alex Turcotte gets his first from Andre Lee at the 242 mark and it's five one Toronto.

Kevin Fiala got his third from Brandt Clark and Trevor Lewis at the 903 mark and it's 5-2. And then on the power play at the 1716 mark, John Tavares scores from Marner and Matthews for a final score of 6-2.

So in the faceoff circle, Kings were at 45%, Toronto 55%. That's losing, you lost by 10%. That's not good. Kings power play was 0 for 4. Again, Toronto was 2 for 4 on the power play at 50%. So in two games, they gave up six goals in 10 power play attempts. So you're talking...

That's not 60%, two games. The hits were pretty even. Block shots, Toronto dominated 17 to eight. Kings took the giveaways 10 to seven. Takeaways were pretty even. The three stars of the game, McMann, he had two goals and two points, was the number one star, Austin Matthews.

was the number two star. I don't get that one. He had one goal and two assists. think maybe a guy scoring three points should be number one star over a guy who scored two points. But, you know, McMann probably doesn't win it as much as Matthews. And so, you know, it's the media that picks it. So, and Nylander was the number three star with one goal and one assist. So now after four games, the Kings are one, one and two.

Then we go Thursday to Montreal.

Cody (56:03)
Montreal

Gary (56:06)
This is when Kuemper goes on the IR to start with.

All right.

Rittich actually started in the Toronto game. Kuemper didn't play in the Toronto game. I'm sorry, I didn't even mention that. He played about halfway through and they pulled and bought in Phoenix Copley. And the decision made by Coach Hiller wasn't because of his poor performance, but because they wanted to save him because they were going to start him against Montreal. So, and.

It turned out to be a very good move. The Kings out shot Montreal only 32-27. In fact, Montreal scores in the first period. Cole Caulfield, wearing Johnny Hockey's number 13 number, his first of the season. no, Justin Barron got his first from the season, excuse me. Caulfield got his first assist. I think he already had four goals.

and Suzuki got his fourth assist at the 1702 mark.

Then, in the 1820, just before the first period end, Mikey Anderson scores his first goal from Gavrikov and Kempe and ties the game 1-1. We go to the second period. Alex Laferriere scores his third goal of the season.

from Jordan Spence and Alex Turcotte at the 1.37 mark to give the Kings a 2-1 lead. And this was a very closely played game through two periods. Even in the third period, the Kings didn't get that two goal lead till the 17.02 mark. And guess who scored the goal?

If I asked you that and you don't know, would probably, this would be the last guy you'd pick. Andres Englund scores his first on an assist from David Rittich. That would have been, yeah, he probably would have been. I'm sorry. I don't know. I might bet on David Rittich before Andres Englund. He plays a good defensive game. He's just not very offensive. And he scored that on the 1702 mark.

Cody (58:10)
David Rittich.

Gary (58:31)
And then.

At the 1912 mark, empty netter Adrian Kempe from Gavrkov and Kopitar made it a 4-1 game. Now to go to the stats, again the Kings got dominated in the faceoff circle. Seems like these California teamers are, you know, they have won one game on the faceoff circle, but they lost 59.3 % to 40.7.

You know, the only guy that kept them at 40.7 was Philip Danault. Both teams were 0-4 on the power play. Kings were 0-2. Montreal was 0-5. Hits were 34 Montreal Kings, 25. Block shots, 19 Montreal, 12 Kings. Giveaways, 13 Montreal, 12 Kings. Takeaways, 9 Montreal, 6 Kings. So, you look at that, you would think...

Montreal was in that game even though the score was four to one Three stars of the game Lane Hutson was He is He really is he's like a kill almost like a Cale Makar. I He's a rookie, right? Doesn't he have a brother that plays somewhere too

Cody (59:41)
He's something.

Yeah, he's a rookie.

Yeah, he does. just can't... see if I can find it.

Gary (59:56)
Yeah, well anyways, he really didn't score anything but he was third star of the game. Byfield with an assist was the second star and Alex LaFerriere with the goal was the number one star.

So now the Kings are two, one and two after five games. It's been an up and down start of the season. And what I didn't say happened in this game is, Hiller did like what he did last year. He played with the wines. Not only did Byfield go up and play left wing with Kopi and Kempe, but

Fiala went up and played with Danault and Moore on the second line. Third line was Turcotte Laferriere and why am I drawing a blank?

I know Jeannot Lewis and Lee were the third line. Foegele. was Turcotte, Foegele and Laferriere are on the third line. We'll see if that happens tomorrow against the Ducks.

It seemed to work defensively for the Kings. They played much better defensive game than, I mean, their defensive, just a lot of lapses through these seasons. So.

Are we doing player of the week first or are going to predictions?

Cody (1:01:30)
We can do Player of the Week.

Gary (1:01:32)
Okay. Since I, I'll go ahead and, I mean, I know you're on the notes, you're first, but I'll take first. I think the Kings player of the week was natural hat trick boy. I'm gonna, he's a man. He's not a boy. Anze Kopitar. I mean, I would say my runner up, Alex Laferriere. He has been impressive.

Cody (1:01:34)
Yeah.

That's fine.

Yeah.

Gary (1:02:02)
So I didn't know if you want to throw that one of those another person in there, Cody, but I was going to throw that in there.

Cody (1:02:09)
So mine is. It has to be is the one only. You know number one on the ice and number one in your heart. Lukas Dostal.

Gary (1:02:24)
What movie is that from?

Cody (1:02:24)
He has to.

game plan. Yeah. but like, yes, he has, he has to be the number one.

Gary (1:02:33)
and replacements.

Cody (1:02:37)
yeah, you're right. The replacements. Yeah, we have. Yes, that it is a good call. Yeah, you're you're 100 % right. It was the it was the British guy, the British kicker guy. He said it. Yeah, Shane. Yeah, so but anyways, yeah, Lukas Dostal number one. It's not even a question on who

Gary (1:02:38)
We've talked about that prior podcast and you called me out on it. And then I sent you the video and you go, it happened twice.

Yes.

Cody (1:03:07)
for anyone else, the second, I would say number two. Ooh, that's a tough one. I'll go, I'll go with Leo Carlsson, two goals, one assist. You know, he had a game winner. If I had to choose a, a two B it would be Mintyukov

Gary (1:03:30)
What about Troy Terry? He's played pretty well too.

Cody (1:03:32)
He has no, no, no, has actually, yes, he does have three goals. So, but

Gary (1:03:39)
And if I had to pick another one out of it, Brandt Clark.

Cody (1:03:42)
Yeah. So who is your I'm gonna call it my lame duck of the week.

Gary (1:03:51)
in Duck of the Week.

Cody (1:03:54)
You can call it your, your jester of the week.

Gary (1:03:58)
gesture.

Who is I'm probably most disappointed in?

Cody (1:04:03)
Yeah.

Gary (1:04:04)
And I so want to see this guy succeed

I wasn't impressed with Byfield.

It seems like he took a step back. I don't know why. I know he got his hand injured in the Ottawa game. And he was minus three in that game. He needs to do better now.

Cody (1:04:29)
My lame duck of the week.

It's not even a player I would say like it has to deal with him. I'll give you a player then I'll give you something else. Right. Right now I would say Alex Killorn right now is my lame duck of the week. He just looks lost. He looks slow. He really hasn't really done much either, but my, my, the,

I'm just going with him as the player. But if I had to go with the lame duck of the week, it's the freaking power play for the ducks. It's horrendous. They're literally over. And I believe when they were planning as Utah, I think they had like four. It took them to their fourth power play to finally even get a shot on goal during a power play.

They just can't seem to get it set up. They can't seem to get into the zone. They look, they have sometimes even have a hard time getting out of their defensive zone on their own power play. And then the stupid drop passes. They just, I watch other teams doing it so clean. Like I was watching Colorado do it. It looked, and I know it's a big difference between Colorado and Anaheim right now.

but like it just like whenever they did it, like they knew where they were going to be. And it was like a nice, crisp, crisp pass to the guy that was, that they were dropping the past two. But with the ducks, it's like, I feel like the way they do it's like, anyone could just go straight to the, like beat the, the guy that's coming up to receive it and just take, go for one-on-one. Like that's how scared I am about it. But I'm actually looking at the,

Right now the stats for the power play percentage. You want to know what the Edmonton Oilers power play percentage is?

Gary (1:06:40)
12.

Cody (1:06:42)
6.7

Gary (1:06:44)
They've been bad.

Cody (1:06:47)
Yeah, the ducks and sabers both have zero.

Gary (1:06:49)
That's why I said reverse NHL. Right now it's... Well, look at the Kings. Okay, if I had to pick on a system that was the gesture of the week, it was the penalty kill. was... They were zero. Scored against them in two games, and then two games they gave up six goals. Four and one and two in the other.

I how does that happen? I mean, that's just total breakdown. other than that, I think we should move to predictions for this week. Well, obviously tomorrow we're playing each other. And who do you have winning the game tomorrow?

Cody (1:07:27)
All right, let's do it.

I have the ducks winning 3 to 2.

Gary (1:07:39)
I saw that. I have the kings winning 4-2. Why do think the Ducks might win that game?

Cody (1:07:47)
I feel like after how bad they played in Colorado and everything, and I feel like Luke crushed, those doll has a few days or at least a day rest. They just, you know, they got, they got so used to playing in Colorado with the, you know, the mile high city, the elevation there. And I feel like they're just going to come down. Cronin is going to be on their asses. Like, you know, cause they just got out played completely and

I know. I just, I think do stalls in to save the day again. And I feel like it's, the ducks looked really bad both times against the Kings. They looked lost in both preseason games against them. So I'm just thinking, you know, they had their two bad games. They're going to change it up.

Gary (1:08:38)
So this is going to be our first week of making predictions. So I want to start keeping track of this stuff.

Cody (1:08:41)
Yes.

Okay.

Gary (1:08:47)
So.

Cody (1:08:48)
I'll let you do that.

Gary (1:08:50)
Thank you.

Cody (1:08:52)
You can contribute to the podcast a little bit.

Gary (1:08:57)
is that a slap?

Don't do not forget that without me you wouldn't be here.

Cody (1:09:04)
Alright, while you're doing that...

I mean, I still could have, but it probably wouldn't be as fun. could tell you that.

Gary (1:09:15)
you

Cody (1:09:17)
I don't know me and Eric and Adam, we had some pretty good chemistry.

Gary (1:09:21)
You wouldn't have been here without me. It would have been somebody else. So.

So I had four two LA, you had three two Anaheim.

So the second game, played? we both play on the Frenzy, Frozen Fret. Right, right. So I have Vegas beating the Kings.

Cody (1:09:43)
Well, you literally mentioned this earlier, that everyone plays that day.

Gary (1:09:57)
4 to 3 on Tuesday. I think the Kings are still trying to find themselves.

and you guys are playing San Jose.

Cody (1:10:10)
We're playing 10 Jose and I have the ducks winning 4 to 1.

Gary (1:10:15)
I that.

Then Thursday, the Kings are playing San Jose. I have the Kings beating San Jose 6-2 on Thursday the 24th.

Cody (1:10:29)
Go ahead and do your Saturday game too.

Gary (1:10:32)
Saturday we're playing.

it should be...

Cody (1:10:37)
You have Utah winning 20 to five. Holy moly. What a game.

Gary (1:10:41)
I have the Kings winning the game 5-2. I do not know how that happened. So I predict 3-1.

Cody (1:10:45)
That was funny.

Gary (1:10:54)
That's what the record is. Now you go.

Cody (1:10:57)
On Saturday the Ducks play against the New York Rangers and I have them in it's in New York I have them losing 4 to 2.

Gary (1:11:07)
So you have the ducks going two in one for episode 34 predictions.

Cody (1:11:10)
Yes.

Gary (1:11:16)
Okay, that's perfect.

I just want to see how we do. I mean, how good or how bad we're going to do.

Cody (1:11:22)
Yeah, that's fine.

Yeah, by the way, Lane Hutson has a brother named Cole Hutson.

Gary (1:11:30)
Cole Hutson, I knew he had a brother. I just couldn't remember his name.

Cody (1:11:32)
And I believe he plays for...

Is it?

Washington? There's nearly not much on here on Wikipedia about him.

Gary (1:11:46)
Did we want to do a quick rundown of the whole NHL standings right now? mean, we... So let's start in the Atlantic. I'll do the Atlantic, you do the metropolitan. How's that work?

Cody (1:11:51)
We can do it real quick.

All right. you do Atlantic. Okay.

Gary (1:12:02)
Yeah, so in the Atlantic right now number one in points is Florida. They've played seven games. They're four two and one Tampa Bay is in second place. Ooh my prediction of being ahead of Boston is true for four games

Cody (1:12:16)
Well, I wouldn't say they're that much ahead, Dad.

Gary (1:12:19)
They played one less game and they're tied with them. So Tampa Bay's three and one, they got six points. And then you got Toronto after five games, they're three and two with six points. Boston, same record. Ottawa, same record. And then you have Montreal, they're two, three and one with five points. Buffalo after a terrible start is two, four and one with five points. And Detroit holds up the bottom.

Cody (1:12:22)
Yeah.

For now.

Gary (1:12:48)
First Montreal is ahead of what all of us picked. Detroit is 2-3 and 4 points after 5 games. Buffalo, 2-4-1, 7 games. So you do the Metropolitan.

Cody (1:13:01)
Yeah.

All right, Metro, have New Jersey. We have New Jersey leading the way with 11 points in eight games with a five, two and one record. And then the second spot, you got the New York Rangers with nine points in five games with a four, own one record. Washington, after four games, have six points with a three, one and record. The New York Islanders in the fifth spot.

With five games have six points with a two one and two record. Pittsburgh Penguins have six points in six games with a three and three and no record. Carolina Hurricanes in the sixth spot have four points in four games and they're two two and zero. Columbus Blue Jackets in five games have four points and they have two wins three losses.

and zero overtime losses and then Philadelphia is at the bottom of the metro with five games with three points with a one three and one record.

Gary (1:14:15)
So now we go to the Central. well, the points leader is the Dallas Stars. Six games, they're five and one, 10 points. Then you have three teams tied with eight points. But Winnipeg only has played four games, has four wins, they have eight points. Then you have Minnesota's played five games, they're three, and two for eight points.

St. Louis has eight points and they played six games, they're four and two. Then you have Utah at seven points, played five games, they're three, one and one. Then you go to Chicago, six games, they're two, three and one for five points. Colorado is five games, they're one and four. And who did they beat, Cody?

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Cody (1:15:14)
your friendly neighborhood anaheim ducks

Gary (1:15:18)
1-4. You know, I said about reverse NHL, Colorado, and get me, who had one of the best off seasons we thought? Nashville. They have zero points in five games. They've lost all five games.

Cody (1:15:29)
Yeah.

with a minus 13 and gold differential. Colorado is a minus 11.

Gary (1:15:45)
Wow. So you can do the Pacific, Goddy.

Cody (1:15:49)
All right. In the Pacific, we talk about this as a topsy turvy thing in four games. The Calgary Flames lead the Pacific with four wins, zero losses, zero overtime losses with eight points. So they're so far perfect, along with the Winnipeg Jets.

Gary (1:16:09)
And we had them second to last, you and I both, I think. I know.

Cody (1:16:14)
Mm-hmm. It's still early in the season. The Vegas Golden Knights are in the second second place in six games. They have seven points with a three two and one record. Seattle and five games has six points with three two and record. The Kings in the fourth place in five games have six points with a two one and two record.

And then Vancouver in five games also has a two one and two record for six points. And then six plays for where you and I predicted them. We have the Anaheim Ducks in four games, two one and one for five points. And then Edmonton Oilers in the seventh spot in six games has four points with a two four and record. And as we predicted, the San Jose Jarks are in the.

last spot in the Pacific in five games. have zero wins, zero losses, and two overtime losses for a total of two points.

Gary (1:17:17)
They have three losses, not zero losses.

Cody (1:17:22)
sorry. Three losses to overtime losses. I must have looked at a different spot. So they have a total of two points that even it's crazy. The sharks and oilers still have a gold differential than the Nashville Predators.

Gary (1:17:28)
I think you did.

Well, you know it might just take some time they have a lot of change a Lot of teams have gone through a lot of change some of them have adapted well others haven't I Mean the Kings are they have adapted well and they haven't adapted well It just depends on the game but like you look at Nashville they haven't Edmonton with the additions they made haven't adapted

Cody (1:17:54)
Yeah.

I like where the ducks are at. Perfect even in the Gold River Peninsula. I'll take that for now. I'll take that for now.

Gary (1:18:21)
Well, after giving up eight and six goals and we're only a minus one, I'll take that for the Kings. So, I mean, we've had some bad games. anyways, we can obviously see right now that all our predictions from last week, if they would stay the way it is now, make us all look like we're bumbling idiots. But you know.

Cody (1:18:28)
Yeah, true.

Gary (1:18:52)
Thank God there's 74 to 77 more games to play depending on what teams they are.

Cody (1:19:01)
There's still, we'll just make it even 70. There's about a little over 70 games left in the season.

We'll just make it even 70 for a lot of teams. It's 75.

Gary (1:19:15)
Well, yeah, well some of them 78 they only played four games it's 82 games so I I gotcha, you know, and we'll see what happens time will time will change things. We'll see what happens. So, I mean, Brandt, obviously with what has happened the season so far, the ups and downs, I go, I go the way the Kings have played.

Cody (1:19:20)
Yeah. I'm just making it make, yeah.

Gary (1:19:44)
I'm pretty happy with us being 2-1 and 2. I mean, and we went on a, we haven't played a home game yet and we won't play a home game till Thursday this coming week. Tomorrow we're on the road. We're in Ni. Tuesday we're in Vegas. That's seven straight games on the road. And yet after five games and playing Boston and Ottawa and Buffalo.

Cody (1:19:55)
Yeah.

Toronto.

Gary (1:20:14)
Toronto, I mean you got two really good teams in Boston and Toronto and Ottawa I think is up and coming team You know and so and then I guess that I listened to the game last night and The Ducks were up to nothing and they were getting totally out plan. going I go this sounds like This it's this sounds like the Buffalo game for the Kings and I'm going like, you know Wow, and then it all of sudden it's just

Cody (1:20:25)
for sure.

they were getting outplayed.

Gary (1:20:43)
like Colton got hot and next thing you know, overtime and you know, McKinnon, if he gets ahead of everybody, you can't catch him. He is so fast.

Cody (1:20:54)
no. Like, like Jeff Merrick said it best. Nathan McKinnon is a rhinoceros on skates.

Gary (1:21:06)
So, mean.

Hey anyways, it's been a you know, couple weeks of the hockey season. We got a whole bunch more to go guys. Again, a challenge to Kings fans to let us know why you should be on our podcast and whoever, like I said, mean, Cody and I will both have a say in it. Won't just be me on who we pick and hopefully we get somebody.

The challenge is, don't let it keep being Duck fans be guest hosts on here or special guests for us. Let's get a King's person on here and then we can pick on Cody.

Cody (1:21:43)
No, it's okay. We can keep just bringing duck. We'll keep bringing ducks guest on here.

Gary (1:21:56)
It'll be fine. So, yeah.

Cody (1:21:57)
It will be fun. I'm looking forward to it. My hot takes still. I still stand on my hot take. That the ducks will win a playoff series before the Kings do. If I look, if, if, if I look silly, I look silly, but that's just what I'm predicting.

Gary (1:22:05)
Yeah.

Okay.

Okay, you know what? We'll see what happens. In fact, your prediction we'll see tomorrow night who predicted better.

Cody (1:22:26)
Yeah. But I mean, that's why it's a hot take.

Gary (1:22:30)
5 o'clock. We'll probably be at Grandma's and Papa's.

Cody (1:22:37)
I know what time we're all. Although I think we're supposed to leave at noon. That's all I know.

Gary (1:22:39)
I don't either.

So we'll have an early day we could be back by five could be on the road listen to the game

Cody (1:22:54)
I'll definitely be listening to it.

Gary (1:22:56)
Me too, me too.

Cody (1:22:58)
Ready to get out of here?

Gary (1:22:59)
I am.

Cody (1:23:01)
I'm too since I won't have that much time to edit as much as I normally do but I should get it done pretty quick.

Gary (1:23:09)
We'll try not to, we'll do it earlier next week.

Cody (1:23:13)
Appreciate that. So all right. Well, you have anything else to add before we head out?

Gary (1:23:21)
Mmm.

It just...

Guys cheer on your teams. Send them all the love you can. Watch all the hockey you can get and listen to it if you can't listen to the podcast. did. I did listen to spit, smitten, chiklis, by the way, by from you and Eric's suggestion. Very interesting. Three hours. Wow. But it was good. It was very good. It was very good. So.

Cody (1:23:42)
yeah.

I told you I'm like if you got three to four hours I've only listened to one of their episodes it was the pat burbique interview that's only when I listen to

Gary (1:23:57)
They had Matt Sandina and it was very interesting to hit Matt Sandin. They're talking about like, they talk to a lot of retired players. And he's a Hall of Famer. So, but it was very interesting. So, and we encourage you guys to branch out, listen to all you can listen to. So you can be the most updated in.

Cody (1:24:01)
That would be a good one.

Yeah.

yeah.

Gary (1:24:28)
I when you have all the information, makes it so much more fun to listen to it, the games and so forth. And the only thing I would have to say now is, as I always do, and I lead and I know you always go, let's go ducks, but it's go Kings, go, go Kings, go, let's go Kings.

Cody (1:24:32)
Yeah.

No?

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It's bugging me that I don't remember what I was going to say. I literally just had it.

Gary (1:26:20)
stop training and it will come to you.

Cody (1:26:23)
wait, it's coming back. Beat L A Beat L A Beat L A Beat L A

Gary (1:26:35)
Keep dreaming kid.

Cody (1:26:38)
I rather keep dreaming than having nightmares.

Gary (1:26:42)
Well, tomorrow might be a nightmare.

Cody (1:26:45)
Maybe but I'm praying for a dream. had it what? Wait, wait, wait, wait. Nope. I had a dream. had a dream the ducks win three to two tomorrow. Yep, that was my dream.

Gary (1:26:49)
Or as Eric said, Lord Gary has spoken.

Cody (1:27:06)
Yeah

All right, ready to get out of here?

Gary (1:27:10)
I am and I can't wait to rub it in your face when we open the podcast next week.

Cody (1:27:17)
Well, keep dreaming.

Alright guys, thank you very much and just remember, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, go ducks!

Gary (1:27:31)
Go Kings!

Cody (1:27:34)
you