TRH RECAP 43: THE QUICKENING
CANUCKS 1, KINGS 3
Coming into this game, I’ve got to admit, this is the most apathetic I’ve ever been about a Kings 5-game losing streak.
Between the holidays, doing some traveling, and witnessing the absolutely dominant potential the Kings had already shown flashes of this season, I just couldn’t find it in me to be too mad about the way we’d been slapped around to end 2013.
Now, you have to understand, this is a huge change for me. I used to essentially let the Kings’ recent record dictate my day-to-day mood… which is a hilariously dangerous way to live your life whenever the contour of the Kings’ fortunes doesn’t align with your own. I have been spotted at nieces’ birthday parties standing by a tree with a flask in my hand, muttering “Cloutier…” distractedly. And on those precious times in Kings history when I have been afforded reason to celebrate, nothing could deflate my mood. I would whistle “Yakety Sax” during the graphic ASPCA puppy shelter commercials.
This season, though, I’ve just had this feeling of (unmedicated) calmness. I don’t know whether it’s Sutter’s cowboy Confucianism rubbing off on me, faith in our players and staff, or simply the lingering effects of the full-body dopamine piñata that exploded on June 11 2012, but I had a feeling that the spark to re-ignite the Kings’ overall impressive season was just around the corner.
Missed you, guys. pic.twitter.com/LKBqjp0C5q
— The Royal Half (@theroyalhalf) January 5, 2014
FIRST PERIOD
Are you serious man singing national anthem at the LA vs Canucks game? Fuck hurry up. #Canucks
— Rosie (@RosieJ_BlueStar) January 5, 2014
'Quick makes a quick save' FUCK YOU MARK LEE FUCK YOU A LOT #cbc #canucks
— Giant Squid Dempsey (@Thetargetdemo) January 5, 2014
My son just noticed that @JonathanQuick32 was back on the ice and asked if his weenie is "ok now?" LOL! #LAKINGS pic.twitter.com/xhEyYmBRM1
— Shianne (@Tatt2Goalie79) January 5, 2014
Jonathan Quick breakdancing lol
— nelly (@CravinggNutella) January 5, 2014
@LAKings if you tell me what knee guards @JonathanQuick32 wears I will do anything
— nick kotz (@bulinwall35) January 5, 2014
https://twitter.com/cambam23_/status/419705234990968833
And then…
Apparently they fed Kesler some raw meat before the game #shadesofAV
— Drew (@_MajorMassSpec) January 5, 2014
I always get mixed between kesler and kelsey @xoLalaa7
— Trina (@trinanhl30) January 5, 2014
me too, lol
“Kesler with the Back Door… Scores!” #ColourCommentators #fail #hockeynight
— Robert Dall (@robertdall) January 5, 2014
Kesler even dives when he scores. This guy is amazing. #Canucks
— Lee Snowden (@SnowdenNHL) January 5, 2014
@VanCanucks Upstairs where Norman keeps his mother. @Ryan_Kesler
— Andy C (@Android_78) January 5, 2014
10/10 Kesler flop on the goal
— Michael (@YellowCanuck) January 5, 2014
Jonathan Quick is losing to Roberto Luongo 1-0 right now!!!! WE'RE GONNA LOSE THA GOLD!!!! DEPORT BYLSMA!!!!11!
— Seth Rorabaugh (@emptynetters) January 5, 2014
SECOND PERIOD
THIRD PERIOD
35 shots on goal mannnnnn come on
— KB Nig (@Kings_beauty32) January 5, 2014
3rd period ………….. GO KINGS GO !!! Larry Murphy says SCORE !!!!…… pic.twitter.com/MlXWngtYva
— E. M. Alonzo (@EMA_GoKingsGo) January 5, 2014
Dustin Brown is playing far more relaxed now that the LW logjam that plagued the LA Kings all season has been cleared up.
— PumperNicholl (@PumperNicholl) January 5, 2014
Dirty fuckint player #dustinbrown
— Bob Lombardo (@KINGLUONGO) January 5, 2014
Dustin Brown just scissor kicked @strombone1. https://t.co/W5WRv78BUC
— Ryan Larimore (@LarimoreONsprts) January 5, 2014
Sick 619 by rey mysterio, i mean Dustin Brown
— Erik (@I3lazer) January 5, 2014
Dustin Brown is the worst player in the league against all other 29 teams… #sharkboy
— ✂Robert James Jr✂ (@RobbieDoh95) January 5, 2014
Greasy Dustin Brown runs Luongo injuring Team Canadas goalie. 3rd-4th time Kings run him so far tonight. #canucks
— Cold Hard Truth (@PitchforkTorchz) January 5, 2014
So Dustin Brown just ran luongo over WHY THE FUCK DID NO ONE FUCKING DECK HIM!! Fuckin everyone's standin around absolutely atrocious #awful
— Mantar Bhandal (@MetalManny89) January 5, 2014
It's unreal how dirty of a player Dustin Brown is.. He totally Kadri'd Luongo there.
— Kyle Foxton (@kfox9611) January 5, 2014
Dustin Brown is as cheap as he is ugly. And that is very, very cheap.
— Shaun Stewart (@CanucksClown) January 5, 2014
DUSTIN BROWN, TRUE AMERICAN HERO, BACKFLIPS AND INJURES ROBERTO LUONGO, CANADIAN NON-HERO
— taylor (@taayylurr) January 5, 2014
@eleazar_Valdez Dustin Brown, the Jamaican player with the super long dreadlocks? He's just as, if not more insane than Gael ;D
— jon townend (@jontownend1) January 5, 2014
Wristshots from the point on the power play. AV flashbacks. Here come the cold sweats. #canucks
— Alan O'Sullivan (@rollingpucks) January 5, 2014
Come on Canucks you stupid fucks
— binkx (@jara_sharp) January 5, 2014
Great, great play by Dwight King to lift Jason Garrison's stick, steal the puck, and feed a net-crashing Carter. Wrister, 2-1 #LAKings.
— Jon Rosen (@lakingsinsider) January 5, 2014
I want to marry this gif on a Rose Bowl float RT @LAKings: Whoomp there it is GIF: http://t.co/k4Kf0RIZCp
— The Royal Half (@theroyalhalf) January 5, 2014
Luongo and Dwight King looks like twins, but King has hair in his face and Luogo has it all on the top of his head. #LAKings
— E.V. Kwun (@snarktrooper) January 5, 2014
Oh look Dwight King did something good agaCHOKE ON IT!!!!!!!
— All The Kings Men (@KingsMenPodcast) January 5, 2014
JEFF CARTER SUIT DOT JPG
— robert_ (@rowast) January 5, 2014
Jeff Carter did the Gretzky statue pose didn't he?
— JP (@kingsown) January 5, 2014
You bet your sweet ass he did.
Oh my god… King had the creepy smile on his face AS HE WAS PASSING that
— King Tufficult (@KingTufficult) January 5, 2014
Jeff Carter scores the empty netter dagger!!
— Reuben Hernandez (@reuben81691) January 5, 2014
Way to go jeff carter…..i been scoring on empty nets since I was in diapers …. You're not so special
— Darrian Martinson (@MrNuxfan1) January 5, 2014
WE'RE BACK* *sorta
— Jack Wilson (@JACKaWILSON) January 5, 2014
Hopefully dustin browns rist is broken #lakings
— Bob Lombardo (@KINGLUONGO) January 5, 2014
Jeff Carter has had a beautiful night. pic.twitter.com/JoBNzbc3bn
— The Royal Half (@theroyalhalf) January 5, 2014
Tufficult out.
-King Tufficult (@KingTufficult)
