Dissapointing Loss In The Desert
October 4th, 2008 by puremetal33Kings lost to the Pheonix Coyotes tonight at the Jobing.com arena in Glendale, Arizona 5-2. Dustin Brown and Anze Kopitar had the Kings’ goals, while Phoenix got 2 from Steve Reinprecht and one each from Kevin Porter, Viktor Tikhonov and Shane Doan.
Jonathan Quick had a less than stellar performance tonight, allowing 4 goals on 24 shots. Erik Ersberg played the third period for the Kings stopping 9 of 10. Quick had been the most impressive Kings goalie coming into tonight’s action but might have stamped his ticket to Manchester with this game’s performance. Ilya Bryzgalov and Mikael Tellqvist shared the win for Pheonix.
The game was the Kings’ most dissapointing performance under Terry Murray thus far, who seemed to have the team ready to show up and compete on a nightly basis. The Kings were invisible most of the first two periods, with both of their goals coming in the third period after some line combinations and defensive pairings were juggled. Always a downer to see the Kings get manhandled by a team like Phoenix who is largely an also-ran in the Western Conference.
Kings conclude preseason play tomorrow night in Salt Lake City against the San Jose Sharks.
-JS
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