For the captain of the kings Anze KopitarOn Tuesday, in the NHL, the beginning was the beginning of the end, while for Ken Holland, a freshman, a freshman of the team, it was the end of the beginning.
For both, it was also a night to forget when the Colorado avalanche rolling on skates, as well as around kings in Dominant 4-1 victory Built on the second period from Martin Necas, Sam Malinski, Artturi Lehconen and the second Necas, scored in the middle of the third.
Kevin Fial received the clogging of the kings only in the third force game of the team in the last period, although the goal in which less than five minutes participated was a little more than the threshold of protest. Spitar picked up his 839tour Help in a career in the play, filling his franchise record and expanding his point of view on the opening day of up to eight games.
“This is a pretty good team,” said Kings coach Jim Hiller later. “They did a good job. They checked us, they caught us, they broke the games, they did not allow us to focus.
“It was not a good game for us. I do not want to take away from how well I played Colorado. [But] We need to play better than us.
Kopitar, Kings leader for all time in several other categories, including games, announced last month that this season, it is 20tour In the NHL it will be his last. And although these figures will ultimately bring him to the Hall of Glory, first there will be a farewell tour of the league, which will begin to unevenly start with a crowd of sale at Crypto.com Arena, welcoming him with a preliminary game in the regime of applause. However, after that, Kopitar was not a big factor, making only one shot in 18 minutes.
Meanwhile, for Holland, hired in May last year, in order to first launch the kings outside the first round of the play -off, the game marked the end of his summer restructuring with his new team. And the first impression of what he built was not good, and the kings lost their newcomer for the third time in four seasons.
Both teams were carefully played in the first period, which ended in the fact that Kings Skating Shorthededededed, after Josh Manson from Colorado shot Warren Fugel with his elbow, Hit Jeff Malott, recognized that he persecuted Manson on ice and throwing gloves. Both players gained five -minute military fines, but Malott also gave two minutes for unsportsmanlike behavior.
Anze Kopitar is presented until the opening of the season on Tuesday for Kings.
(Kyusung Gong / Associated Press)
“I like the answer to Fogel,” Hiller said. “We thought it was a high blow, so Malott entered. We have no problem with this. I thought it was a really important point for him for our team; that we are not going to accept this. ”
The kings killed a penalty – the first of 12 on the night for both teams – but a few seconds after the two sides returned in full force, Necas gave Lavina leadership forever with the help of the right circle.
Malinski, the defender, doubled the advantage in less than seven minutes, shooting immediately inside the blue line through the movement and goalkeeper Darcy Kumper. Lehconen gave Colorado his third purpose of the second period on the rebound from 5:18 remaining.
“The second period was not good enough,” said defender Drew Dauti. “We were on the heels, we turned the puck too much. They received a lot of revolutions, 3 to 2 and others. And this caused us harm.
“Definitely even close to enough good.”
Necas then did this 4-0 on a power target halfway to the last period. Fials corresponded to this with the first naked kings of the year in less than five minutes.
Kings rarely challenge the goalkeeper Colorado Scott Vedzhwood in the first two periods, pre -playing and creating few attacks, making only nine shots on the gate for the first 36 minutes. Four fines from Colorado helped, the kings came to life in the third period of Chippies, putting 14 shots on the gate.
“A good answer in the third,” Dauti said. “But too little, too late.”
