Final – Kings 0, Panthers 3

The Kings of Los Angeles abandoned their third consecutive match on the road, falling 3-0 against the Florida Panthers on Wednesday evening in bringing Arena to Florida.

The panthers opened the scoring a little less than five minutes after the start of the match while the attackers Matthew Tkachuk and Sam Bennett connected on a right goal outside the Plé. After the Kings were unable to clean their defensive area on the wall, the panthers quickly converted with Tkachuk installing Bennett with an empty net and the veteran attacker converted to his 16th goal of the season and An advance of 1-0.

For the second consecutive match, the Kings conceded a goal of 5 against 3, the capitalizing panthers to take a two goals’ lead. After a penalty in the offensive area of ​​Trevor Lewis and a high call on Warren Foegele, the Tkachuk shot of the high slit went widely, but the round of the season and a 2-0 lead.

Late in the match, the Kings crowned things with an empty goal from Tkachuk, his third point of the night, bringing us to the 3-0 final.

Listen to defender Drew Doughty, striker Warren Foegele and head coach Jim Hiller after the defeat tonight.

DREW DOUGHTY

Warren Foegele
On this evening’s match and if he obtained the type of game he expected
In both directions, a little similar to the last time. It is a version that plays against these guys. They compete very hard for the washers, I played them a lot last year, so I know them enough with them. They are a team that just wins a lot of 50/50 Puck battles, whether in the o-zone, neutral area, D-Zone zone and they win a lot of board battles. When you do this, you get possession of the washer and attack more. So they are a good hockey club. The right thing is, a quick turnaround for us and we will go to Tampa tomorrow.

On the sidelines for the error at the moment for this team, especially against Florida
I assume responsibility there. Take a penalty on the murder with nine seconds to play, which hurts our team. Two consecutive matches where we abandon another penalty on the murder, so it is difficult to kill penalties when you are on a 5 against 3. I put our team in a bad place there.

On the offensive production of the team at the moment
It is certainly frustrating. We talked about bringing the bodies to the net, stings them on the net. I think that we could do a better job is to have a little better the washer. We don’t always have to try to strike right away, let’s try to wear them and then try to get looks. I found this evening, just too much, just one and dones and it was like that for a few games right now. We have a few good quarters of work where we really wear them and I think we could do more and then we will have more opportunities and things like that. So it’s a version, and we’re going to go through. As I said, it’s good that tomorrow is a quick turnaround.

Jim Hiller
On the match this evening, compared to the 2-1 victory on Florida last week at home
I thought it was similar. I thought that the difference was perhaps they were a little cooler this time and that we may not have been so fresh. It would probably be the difference. They are faster tonight than they were in Los Angeles. Another good hockey match and they got us.

On its use of Drew Doughty in his first game of the season
He looked good. I mean, you don’t know as long as the balls are starting to fly, and it was fine, it seemed to be a game for me. He was a little rusty, there was a couple, I think he sank it a few times, but defensively, he is a special player, who can enter and do that after not having played. It was probably close to nine months … it’s impressive. There are many things that have been written and said about Drew but add it to the list.

On the fact of not contesting the prohibited objective of Alex Laferriere
It was difficult. Lewie entered, the guy did not push him, so he stumbled it? It would be a judgment, but when the Ice Call (is a goal), you must have proof that is strong enough to cancel the call on ice. So, I mean, if it was the opposite, I would have liked to see him call the goal and let them decide how we are going. We just didn’t think there was enough to take this risk.

If he has the impression that it lacks options to run the offensive production of the team
Well, I think a healthy Drew will help us this way, that’s for sure. Some guys receive looks, some guys are not. There is only so many things you can do. You have to go there and play hockey. They don’t give you time and space, you get 30 shots, you get very beautiful looks, and that does not intervene. We are not going to spend a lot of time talking about it. We have dried at the moment, it’s obvious, but we will not spend time tie ourselves. Just go there and prepare to play the next game and make sure we do the things that have led to the creation of an offense. Going in front of the goalkeeper is one of them. I think it’s probably the best thing you can do.

On Brandt Clarke’s Healthy Scratch in the game tonight
It’s a difficult and difficult league for a young man, do you know what I mean? He did very well to get to this point, he finally had to be a healthy scratch, but he played very well. This league will exhaust you as a young player and it will be reset. We will see where it’s going from here.

Notes –
• The defender drew Doughty during his beginnings of the season, the 1,178th regular season competition in his career. In doing so, Doughty becomes the fourth skater and the only franchise defender in 17 seasons for the Kings, joining Dave Taylor (17), Dustin Brown (18) and Anze Kopitar (19).
• Doughty becomes the 13th defender of the history of the League to be skateful in 17 seasons for a single franchise. He joined Ray Bourque (Bos, 21), dit Clapper (Bos, 20), Ken Daneyko (NJD, 20), Nicklas Lidstrom (Det, 20), Tim Horton (Tor, 20), Kris Letang (Pit, 19), Marc-Edouard Vlasic (SJS, 19), Adam Fote (Col, 17), Brian Leetch (Nyr, 17), Chris Phillips (Ott, 17), Harry Howell (Nyr, 17) and Larry Robinson (MTL, 17).
• Tonight’s match marked Doughty’s 24th career match against the panthers, breaking equality with Dustin Brown (23GP) for the unique possession of the second largest meeting in the history of the franchise, behind Anze Kopitar ( 28GP).
• goalkeeper Darcy Kuemper made 36 stops on 38 shots against this evening, his highest total in a single match this season and the 50th match of his career that he recorded 36 or more saves.

The Kings will not hold a morning skate tomorrow in Tampa Bay and will return to the ice tomorrow night in Amalie Arena against lightning.