[Amazin69]

That's what you get for dumping John Kellly, Blues!

Kelly's debut with the Kings during today's tilt at Winnipeg was fine; it's still a bit odd hearing him doing our games rather than yours, but okay. Only strange note came when the Kings took the 2-1 lead after Andrei Kuzmenko made a lovely spinning back-pass to Kopitar, who made an equally-lovely cross-slot pass to Kempe at the back post for the tip-in, causing Kelly to exclaim, "that play was lit!"

John, I don't know how they do it in Mizzou, but I think men our age aren't allowed to say "lit". I'd have to check the Middle-Aged Handbook (John is 65, I can see it from here) to be sure, but still.

And then Schiffele scored a short-hand goal late in the 2nd and the winner midway through the third, and things were not lit after all. Meh.

Kings had two PP chances in the final four minutes, but could do nothing with them. For the day, the PP was 0-5, with the shorty conceded, so that won't do.

I'm starting to not like the Kings' "5-forwards" PP, in this case the "AK" top line with Fiala and Byfield added. Is there a reason why Drew Doughty isn't out there? Don't you want somebody who can get the puck into the offensive zone? Doughty never even touched the ice down the stretch…when the Kings pulled the goalie, they put Philip Danault out as the 6th attacker, then switched it to Joel Armia. Now Danault and Armia are good players who took Montreal to the Stanley Cup Finals a few years back, but they are defense-oriented forwards. I don't get it.