Tip o' the hat to the Kings
by Yankee Canuck on Apr 25, 2010 9:08 PM PDT
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Hey Kings Republic:
In full disclosure I posted this over at BoC too, but I wanted to share some things I now know about your team:
1. Drew Doughty is insane good. It's a joke. I hope he's a King for life and a really good cocktail is named in his honor.
2. I'm on the Meat Train bandwagon (can trains pull wagons? nevermind). I took a guess before the series we'd secretly fall in love with him. I'm not keeping it a secret.
3. Michal Handzus is severely under-rated.
4. I appreciate you have a GM that actually uses the trade deadline to get post season talent like Modin and Halpern. If he could have a chat with Mike Gillis, it would be just super.
5. I wish Vancouver had a tough son of a bitch shutdown man like Rob Scudari.
6. The Staples Center plays really good music.
7. I dig an entire audience wearing black.
8. I share Rudy from BoC's feelings for Ryan Smyth and Randy Jones. I sorry.
9. Quick will learn from this series and, with Bernier right behind him, I don't relish the thought of playing the Kings in the next few seasons.
10. Kopitar? Yeah, see #1 description.
I know it means nothing, but congrats on a good season and giving Vancouver a hell of a scare. Here's to future battles down the road. Cheers.
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I have to agree with Yankee…that Simmonds is awesome. Meat Train is it?
And Kopitar showed some hella-toughness coming back after what looked like a sure groin pull or knee injury.
Kudos. It sucks right now, but the Kings are for real…and you get to watch Doughty for a long time too!
Samuelsson carries a Swedish passport, but Henrik thinks of his fellow countryman as quasi-Canadian. He plays with an edge and has lots to say to opponents on the ice.
"People in here love him," Henrik said. "He's almost Canadian with the way he likes to chirp and go back and forth." B. Ziemer/Van. Sun 4/22/10
Great shit, YC. Thanks for profliferating the Meat Train nomenclature and best of luck to your team in the next 3 series…
and on the 93rd postseason of the National Hockey League, the Slovakian-hockeygod Zeus commanded from high atop Mount Figueroa..."RELEASE THE MEAT TRAIN!" And it was good.
by DodgerBlueBalls on Apr 25, 2010 11:06 PM PDT reply actions
Thanks to all of you classy Canucks fans that have posted here during the playoffs. It was a tough loss for us Kings fans, being that it has taken so long to get back here, but this team is for real. You will see us in a rematch next season. Even though it hurt to watch, I appreciated that Ryan Kessler had a few moments of consulation to our US guys that he had played with in the Olympics, and Luongo and Doughty had a moment of mutual respect too.
Your offensive force is pretty staggering. Good luck to you in the playoffs.
And we got him locked up for 6 years!!! Similarly, you should focus the off-season on pressuring management to give Doughty a 20 year contract. He’s worth anything.
by Beantown Canuck on Apr 26, 2010 10:34 AM PDT up reply actions
That contract was a smart move. Didn’t some team try to poach him? Ha.
Fortunately, I believe the Kings organization is committed to making something similar happen for Drew as soon as possible. And of course nothing would please the fans more. Nick Nickson (or some other clever person — correct me if I’m wrong, people) quipped that this kid is going to be “the last King to wear number 8.”
In Dinglebarn We Trust
That was Philly before his last deal.
He would have been an RFA after this season though.
We know someone would have tried an offer sheet. Gillis did the right thing getting him locked up.
Do the same. Even if Drew was offered 8 mil and you get multiple 1st rounders as compensation.
It wouldn’t be enough. Norris Trophy winning defenseman that are good enough to play for their country at 20 years old ( and look like the best on the ice! )… only come along once in a generation.
"He came to to hit me and missed and went over the boards, and his skate came up and hit me in the side of the face," said Henrik, rubbing a red scrape high on his cheekbone. " I think he shaved my playoff beard. It was close." after Game 6. vs. Kings.
Aw, it’s lovely to hear the Drew love. I still have my Doughty Olympic pin in a place of honor.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Lombardi let the big fish like Kovalchuk slide this summer, precisely because we’ve got a lot of talent coming up he wants to sign. He’s said things to that effect a few months ago. Believe me, the pressure to lock up Drew forever is there — not that I think Dean needs it.
Here’s to many years of Kesler and Doughty awesomeness…and many playoff rounds in the future!
In Dinglebarn We Trust
Got to agree with that. Let’s hope the next time it’s a WCF!!!
""I felt last year our guys were ready to take that next step," Vigneault said. "We weren't able to get through Chicago. I feel we're even more ready now. Having gone through that experience, having learned from it. . . we're going to be better prepared to face the challenge ahead of us."
Thanks Yank.
Scuderi deserves mad props this series. He’s not flashy, but he’s steady and tough-as-nails. The less you hear of his name, the better, that means he’s doing a hell-of-a-job on the opposition top line. How he reminds me of Willie Mitchell.
Before the series, I always thought Kopitar was a wimpy European, (yah, blame it on the stereotype), with crazy skills. At least I got the crazy skills part, coming back on the ice with such a bad injury is pretty damn gutsy.
More importantly, thanks to everyone here at JftC. It’s been awesome, don’t be too down Connie, your team is built to last. I bet we’ll be seeing the Kings in the playoffs WAY more than we want to. Plus, at least you’re not forking over $300-400 dollars for lower-bowl tickets. It’s pretty hard to afford going to games here.
Wish us luck going into round 2!
congrats on a great regular season and a hard-fought series.
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Thanks Kings and fans for a fantastic series. If no other series in the playoffs are as entertaining as this one was, my heart will be thankful. All the pundits said it before and they were all right: this was the most entertaining hockey of the post-season so far (with the possible exception of one little triple OT game). Hope we don’t see you next year til the third round at the earliest!
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Thangs Kings fans for a a lot of up-and-down hard-hitting excitement. I really enjoyed this series. Good luck to your young guys heading off to the world championships.
by Beantown Canuck on Apr 26, 2010 10:35 AM PDT reply actions
This bud's for you
Kings fans, don’t worry so much about this year. You guys have a tremendous base and they won’t be going anywhere for a while. Sure you might lose a few people to the inevitable free agency/trade market but most everyone you rooted on this year, you’ll be rooting on next year. Last year was ugly for you guys and now you’re a relevant Western Conference team. Keep building on that, keep getting better, and the Kings will soon be the ones moving past the first round.
—GoodKeith
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Dammit, posted in the wrong place.
Alright, here we go again…
I can’t stress enough how impressed I was with the quality of this Kings team. That was one of the more nail-biting first rounds that I can remember in Canucks history, and you guys definitely have a bright future to look forward to. I don’t know anything about Jonathan Bernier, but if he’s half as good as everyone says he is, he will be exactly what Quick needs to find his groove.
Not to compare Luongo and Quick directly, because that’s unrealistic, but just looking at the backup situation for both goalies, Lu had a very capable backup in Raycroft who could step in when he was struggling and win us games when given the chance by his team. That was a lot of pressure Quick had to deal with as a young goaltender, so that coupled with some blunders made by the team made it very hard for him to not get rattled IMO, especially after game 5.
Either way, the Kings have NOTHING to be disappointed with in this series. They have proven to many reasonable Canucks fans that they are a force to be reckoned with, and Vancouver will not take them lightly in the future. I very much enjoyed this matchup, and I look forward to many more post-season clashes in the future.
Finally, Connie Kim, I am sorry you had to be at the game when it all fell apart. It must have been heartbreaking.
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