GDT: 5/6/12 > Game 4 > Blues @ Kings > 2:00 PM > NBC

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GDT: 5/6/12 > Game 4 > Blues @ Kings > 2:00 PM > NBC

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BLUES at KINGS

(Los Angeles leads best-of-seven series 3-0)

TV: NBC, CBC, RDS

Big Story: The Kings go for the knockout before what's sure to be a raucous sellout crowd at Staples Center, while the Blues look for a way to send the series back to St. Louis for Game 5.

Team Scope:

Blues: To say that the Blues have been stunned after dropping three in a row to Los Angeles -- after not losing three straight games in regulation during the regular season -- would be an understatement. They haven't had a lead since the early stages of Game 1, are taking a lot of undisciplined penalties and are not getting the kind of goaltending that helped them lead the NHL in goals-against during the regular season.

"We're not built for coming from behind all the time," coach Ken Hitchcock said.

One problem for the Blues is that they're facing a team that plays a style similar to theirs -- but it doing it better.

"I think we're getting done to us what we've done to teams all year," Hitchcock said. "I think we're getting it done to us. It's how do we react to this now?

Kings: With his team one game away from making the Western Conference Finals for the first time since 1993, it's fair to say that GM Dean Lombardi's midseason coaching change has been a success. The arrival of Darryl Sutter following the firing of Terry Murray has ratcheted up the team's intensity. He's not the screamer that some might have anticipated, but he's got his team ready to play every night. Sutter has the Kings playing the kind of grinding game that often produces success in the postseason.

"He pushes the right buttons," captain Dustin Brown said. "I think one problem we had as a team was, before he got here, was getting emotionally attached to games. He brought that emotional level up. You can do all the X's and O's right, but if you're not emotionally attached, it's really hard to win in the League. And he's brought attention to that. Again, that comes with pushing guys and patting guys on the back at the right time."

Who's Hot: L.A.'s Jonathan Quick has been the best goaltender through the first two rounds of the playoffs. He's won seven of eight games and has a 1.62 goals-against average and .948 save percentage.

Injury Report: The Blues are still without goaltender Jaroslav Halak (ankle) and played Game 3 without center Jason Arnott, who's day-to-day with a lower-body injury. … The Kings have been without forward Simon Gagne (concussion) since late December.

Stat Pack: The Blues' top-six forwards had 10 goals and 15 assists in five games against San Jose, but have managed just two goals and five assists in three games vs. L.A. Alex Steen, Patrik Berglund and T.J. Oshie do not have a point in the series. Andy McDonald, who went 4-4-8 in five games against the Sharks, has one goal, one assist and only six shots on goal despite averaging 20:14 of ice time against the Kings. … The Kings have gone up 3-0 in both their playoff series this spring after never winning the first three games in any series since entering the NHL in 1967.

Puck Drop: It's a busy spring at Staples Center, where the Kings are jockeying for playoff dates and practice time with the NBA's Clippers and Lakers, both of whom qualified for the postseason. The constant turnover in the building has meant that the Kings often have to have their morning skates at their practice facility rather than on their home ice -- much to the chagrin of Sutter, who wants his players to get used to the game-day environment.

"Young guys … don't get to go and skate. They go there at night and play the game and they're there for three or four hours," Sutter said. "You don't get to experience the whole atmosphere of it. When you look at it, you'd like to do it all the time. It's the only chance we've had to it. You've got three teams and you can't do it. You've got six days here. If the Sunday game was an afternoon game we could actually do it twice."
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Re: GDT: 5/6/12 > Game 4 > Blues @ Kings > 2:00 PM > NBC

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Is it bad that the stoic resolve is setting in, and it's still 6 hours until game time?

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Had a dream last night that the Blues played very very well in game 7 of this series, implying that they got the job done in games 4-6.

Given that, Blues lose this one 1-0 in 4 OT.
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Today we will learn a lot about this team. Its the ultimate nutcup check. The blues will get kicked square in the nuts today. Will they get up get and kick back, or will they turtle?

I hope they kick back but the logical conclusion is they make tee times tomorrow morning. :cry:
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the way this team responded to round 2 makes me believe that if they win this game, they lose game 5.

I hope they prove me wrong. if they get their swagger back, they could win 4 in a row and take this.

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Clearly we are the more rested team and thus will take the play to the Kings........

For the first 65 seconds until the Kings score a softie and the Blue's again drop their shoulders and NBC switches to paid programming instead of airing the third period.
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I have some newfound hope that we can pull this out. If we win today, then we get to come home where we are really good. If we win at home, an 8 seed is going to start having a lot of pressure on them. If it gets to game 6, they are going to have a lot of pressure on them to prevent a game 7 in St. Louis.

Longshot, but possible I guess.
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Reaves is in. Bring it back home and we'll figure it out from there. It'd be swell to see somebody power bomb Dustin Brown through the ice, down to the bowels of Earth.
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Ultimate hockey day for me.
See the Blues at noon. Then go to game 3 of the WHL Finals (Portland vs. Edmonton) with Ty Rattie (Blues prospect) leading the Winterhawks.

Hoping the day starts off right and Blues come out with full force. Let's do it boys.

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Since this place will become a ghost town starting tomorrow, I should ask now... who's interested in fantasy football?
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glen a richter wrote:Since this place will become a ghost town starting tomorrow, I should ask now... who's interested in fantasy football?
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glen a richter wrote:Since this place will become a ghost town starting tomorrow, I should ask now... who's interested in fantasy football?
Glen, how can you think of football at a time like this?
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northwest dave wrote:
glen a richter wrote:Since this place will become a ghost town starting tomorrow, I should ask now... who's interested in fantasy football?
Glen, how can you think of football at a time like this?
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At a time when we're about to witness the Blues get swept ingloriously out of the playoffs?

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glen a richter wrote:
northwest dave wrote:
glen a richter wrote:Since this place will become a ghost town starting tomorrow, I should ask now... who's interested in fantasy football?
Glen, how can you think of football at a time like this?
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At a time when we're about to witness the Blues get swept ingloriously out of the playoffs?

Maple Leafs... Islanders... Flyers. What do those three teams have in common? In 95 years, the only three teams to come back from an 0-3 deficit. The odds, most definitely, are not in our favor.
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As an aside, Dave... Rattie is looking like the biggest steal in the draft since forever. At least based on his Portland numbers. Is he the benefactor of a good system or is he just that good?
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Win or lose, Brown needs to go down, and he needs to go down hard. What a Draper-like player he has turned out to be.
I'd love to see them bring the series back to St. Louis...then maybe get a win here and trail 3-2 going back to LA.
But based on how poorly they have played in the last 2 games, my confidence in that happening is pretty low.

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I sincerely believe that we would have been in a much better spot in this series if we had played Reaves the whole time. Hopefully the team gives us something to be happy about in this round.

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I'm confused why we ate a year of Schwartz to just not play him in a series where every offensive threat would have been a plus against the obviously stingy Quick. He should have been playing from game 1. Hell, the Rags are playing Krieder without second thought and he's been instrumental in them advancing as far as they have. Why no love for Schwartz while there's extreme love for 25?

Maybe next year this team will feature Schwartz, Tarasenko and Rattie. Buy into Hitch's defensive system plus be able to score some goals, could be a winning combination.
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