Opening Night for the Kings- Phoenix 6- Kings 3

One word to describe the Kings opening night game? HORRIBLE. Another season, and they STILL can't figure out how to beat Phoenix. The Kings looked good the first 5 minutes, and after that they were skating on their heels. They looked plain sloppy. Phoenix was on their game last night, and they capitalized on all of the Kings mistakes. Kings just couldn't figure out how to score 5 on 5. The power play was good (all three Kings goals were power play goals), but they need to work on getting even strength goals. I don't know what it is about Phoenix that they can't figure out. They hit the post AT LEAST 4 times, luck just wasn't with them I guess. Oh, and besides Doughty gift wrapping a couple of goals for the Yotes, one went off of Matt Greene's stick on a would be nice defensive play...if it actually got saved instead of going 5 hole....Total defensive breakdown last night for the Kings.

I hate to say it, but Drew Doughty didn't look so hot. He had an AWFUL game. He had two points (a goal and an assist) but like I said, he pretty much gave the Yotes two of their goals. Drew Doughty: 1st star of the game, One goal, Three assists. *sigh* Definitely not what we're used to seeing from the kid. I'm not too worried though, I know they are better than that. It's just one game in. Just disappointing to say the least. It was nice to know that the Ducks got manhandled by the Sharks last night though. Haha

Kopitar, Frolov and Doughty scored for the Kings. For Phoenix, Vrbata had two goals, along with goals from Lombardi, Winnik, Upshall (*double sigh*) and Lang.

Kings need to come out firing on Tuesday against San Jose. And keep Heatley away from the net!