The King of Los Angeles proves importance in the loss to the avalanche – Hockey Writer – The King of Los Angeles

March has been a great month for the Los Angeles Kings, with 9-4-1 to 14 games. The Kings have been playing their best hockey of the season, and their offense is starting to blossom, not only the continued dominance of the defensive ball, but also goalkeeper Darcy Kuemper.

At the moment, everything seems to be clicking, but the problem is – and has been throughout the season of the season – it just clicks at home. The Kings love playing on the crypto.com arena, and they are the best team on the ice in the NHL with a record of 26-3-4. Yes, the playoffs are coming, and the Kings have only three regulations to lose in their home construction. crazy. Their dominance at home has only improved recently as they currently have won seven straight and 15 straight wins.

“We love to play at home,” Warren Foegele said. “For some reason it seems we can do more effort there, but we love playing in front of our fans, they give us the energy and we’re comfortable.”

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Unfortunately for the Kings, they can’t play every game at home. It was their road record that caught the attention as we were closer to the playoffs, as the Edmonton Oilers almost inevitably replayed in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs. The Kings have a 14-19-5 record on the road this season, making them the only playoff team in the Western Conference to have a record of failure on the road. Forgot only the failed records, the Kings’ road records are the same as those of the Anaheim Ducks and Seattle Kraken. It’s not even a very bad start to the season on their journey and gradually getting better. All four of their losses in March were on the road, including a 5-1 loss to the Chicago Blackhawks.

While it looks like the Kings will be tortured by Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl for the fourth consecutive year, the Kings have a chance to gain an advantage without luxury in the past three seasons. With 11 games left, the Home-Ice advantage in the first round of the playoffs is still in the fight, and the Kings are in the best position to secure the game.

The Kings are currently ranked second in the Pacific Division and lead the Oilers by hand only two points in one game. After everything we witnessed in Denver Thursday night, the Kings did everything they could to compete in the first two games of the first round at the Crypto.com Arena, whether against the Oilers or not.

Denver’s road dilemma continues

Last night’s game against the Colorado Avalanche was probably what you could have chalked as a so-called “pre-ordered loss.” The Kings don’t have two depth strikers, both of which are revived fourth-tier hearts and souls, which has been a huge swathe on both sides of the hockey since its inception: Tanner Jeannot and Alex Turcotte, who did not travel with Denver. Although these are two energy guys who formed some real chemistry with Samuel Helenius and gave the King the ability to roll all four rows confidently, their absence is not a valid enough reason for why the King couldn’t throw the puck online and only put 22 on the target.

It should be well known now how Coomper has performed against the Kings in his rebound season, but for some reason, against a hot avalanche team, on the road, alternate goalkeeper David Rittich was nodded. Now, last night was by no means a loss last night due to Rittich’s performance, but there’s a good chance he’ll steal a few of them from what we’ve seen from Kuemper this season.

The Kings performed better in front of Kuemper and were more confident in front of him, so what was the reason for him to ride the pine trees in a playoff-type game, and this team struggled consistently? Maybe it would make sense if Rittich had some crazy records about the avalanche, but he didn’t. He scored 5-6-0 at 0.891, the percentage of preservation of avalanches ever.

While lacking Jeannot and Turcotte and without Kuemper starting on the trip, it isn’t in the best position like the Kings, giving two points. Anyway, it’s exactly what they’ve played on the ice that doesn’t look like the team we’ve seen in the past few games. It’s like a completely different team on the ice when the Kings are on the road. They went from scoring 17 goals, giving up only 5 games, to being eliminated 4-0. The Kings’ offensive game, transitions through the neutral zone, or creativity in a hurry down and low post, is no threat to the creativity of the Carolina Hurricanes, the Boston Brown Bears or the New York Rangers.

“We don’t have the best stuff, no doubt,” said head coach Jim Hiller. “We don’t have much contact, I just don’t think we’re good.”

Their power play has been cruel this season, but it is their power performance on the road that is really bad, only 12.4%. The Kings have filed a second highest penalty this season, which won’t help their case, but they do have three chances to bury one in the avalanche. They waste these opportunities in the typical king’s way, only trying to produce a shot. Just when we think the Power Game has seen some real improvement, the Kings scored two goals against the Rangers Tuesday night, which they have scored more than one power goal in one game since Game 3 of the season.

If you have to propose a similarity between the Oilers and the Avalanche, it will be the star talent they have and the ability to take over the game. The Avalanche’s star power has exposed the Kings many times, especially in powerful games. Whether it’s Cale Makar, Nathan Mackinnon or Martin Necas, at least one of them is involved in all four avalanche targets. Colorado power play separates the Kings’ penalty kills and ranks in the top eight in the NHL.

The Kings couldn’t score, they didn’t take advantage of the opportunity given, the confident, playful style they played at home for the past two weeks, and they certainly couldn’t control the avalanche of the star talent. The Kings vs. Minnesota field game in the last road game was a similar story. They couldn’t generate a ton and lost 3-1; they ranked a quarter in the power play, and both goals from the field scored depend on the man’s advantage (the third goal was an empty Nets). Like all that makes them so great, it’s hard to fight at home, and it’s coming out when they’re on the road.

“We have to figure out our road game before we get into the playoffs,” Quinton Byfield said.

It’s fun, though, because the Kings have played all these high-end teams before and how different the results are when they play at home and on the road. The Kings are one of the best defensive teams in the league. They have the ability to shut down top talent, and they have proven numerous times this season. Here are some statistics that will shock you. The Kings’ score against the playoffs this season is 15-0-1, and they are 3-12-1 against the playoffs in the game.

There, you show you how different and bad the team the Kings have to play on the road. What matters is not the opponent’s ability, but playing games in downtown Los Angeles or elsewhere. Now, the playoffs are at completely different wavelengths, and the common trends in the regular season do not usually maintain the same weight. What makes the king’s situation even harder to pass is how extreme the two sides of the spectrum are. They are super advantageous at home and super super, super huge on the road, which has been a consistent theme throughout the season. It’s hard to believe that this won’t translate into a playoffs.

They have proved the game and eliminated the game, and winning the playoff team on the road is just a hard time for them. Even their hot parade, we saw some of the best hockey this group has played, but still nothing has changed on the road with the avalanche.

It’s the strongest roster of the Kings in four seasons, and they have the best chance to eventually make progress in the playoffs, but if there are any signs in their regular season performance on the road that we should expect in the playoffs, then ensuring Home-Ice advantage is a must.