BTinAZ and I helped out at the toy drive

before the game with the Booster Club. Good turn out of fans with toys for the local kidlets!

If you haven’t donated yet…please do… its a great cause folks.

After taking a hellofa beating on the road, the boys come home to try to regroup. Now we have pretty much figured out the Kings weak spots and have exploited them repeatedly but I really hate it when teams assume that if they can beat us a couple of times, they can beat us everytime, so I won’t disrespect the Kings with that kind of comment. We won 4 - 1 this time.

The game was fast and got chippy early.

Even so , there were only 2 penalties each team for the whole game and those came in the first. Each team went 50% on the PP, again in the first period. Interesting that the stats say the Yotes are at they’re best when they score first. The Kings don’t seem to be able to take advantage of that initial boost.

I can’t emphasize enough the importance of committee scoring. The Kings seem to have one HUGE line and not much else. With King Kopitar and Sir Cammeleri shut down the rest of the round table seems to have little to no ability to step up and continue the battle. It doesn’t help the Kings that Frolov the Wonder Hobbit is out of commission. But gotta give a wee bit of love to Dustin Brown who is looking very good in every joust against these struggling royals.

I sat on the glass for this game. Waaay too much fun watching Carcillo taunt Zeiler (who used to be our prospect). *thanks Ducky, for reminding me about that*

Carcillo has discipline galore in this game. Even Ivannans wants to have a go round with our boy.

Zeiler calls him an MF, Carci laughs and says come get some boy, Zeiler pokes him with the stick, Carcillo gives him the look but doesn’t bite on the taunt.

Now of course you are all wondering how I handled the Michalek mauling incident… I remained a lady…in between calling for someone to knock Blake’s head off…(ok, probably not that politely) I have rewatched that part of the game a few times (can you say obsessively boyz n girlz?) and can’t figure out what the hell happened to get Blake to go after Z like that. Easy target maybe? Blake is a little long in the tooth, maybe he picked Z because the boy won’t fight back? (I love the boy more than anyone not related to him should and even I have to admit the kid can’t fight.) Blake is a total tool and a loser on this one.

Big game for Mules and Vbrat with goals and assists throughout the game. The vets Rhino and Donor added a couple of goals too. We roll a tasty secondary for those times when the big guns just can’t find a shot and when the first liners are scoring and the secondary is firing bullets too, the Yotes can be a serious force. This is what is lacking for the Kings against us.

Gretz comments that it isn’t one particular line tightening the noose around Kopi and Camm, each player that gets put on them has the same mandate and style, which has been very effective so far. Especially watching Hanzal on Kopitar (both big, strong youngsters sportin the 11) opposite sides of the same mold.

The blue liners have been awesome! Nick Boynton has mutiple points in a couple of games and gets his 100th point in this one. Go Boynk! I would like to take the time to point out the fact that Jovo has been playing very, very well lately. (my prediction about his season seems to be coming true and I will enjoy saying I told you so even more than watching some Yote fans take back their words about lil Niko and some Hawk fans about Vbrat) When will the goal monkey get off my boy’s back?

Bryz! of course was his usual force of nature self rockin the pipes. He really takes any goal scored on him as a personal affront. Gotta love our resident Russian.

A fun game (of course it was, we won)

a good show of determination after a horrid road trip and a much needed shot in the arm before facing our dreaded nemesis on Friday.

The post game radio guest was BillyT. Who was gracious and sweet as usual and picked up 2 new fans.

BleedinTeal inAz got a bunch more really nice shots even though the glass sucks. http://www.flickr.com/photos/9302501@N02/sets/72157603408176965/

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