{"id":557469,"date":"2026-04-21T20:24:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T20:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/557469\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T20:24:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T20:24:14","slug":"how-can-the-kings-pull-off-a-win-against-avs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/557469\/","title":{"rendered":"How can the Kings pull off a win against Avs?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Stanley Cup playoffs are famously unpredictable, to the point where every year you can bank on at least a couple first-round upsets. Every now and then, though, a matchup seems so lopsided that not even the most daring of prognosticators would pick the underdog. That\u2019s what we have with the current series between the Colorado Avalanche<\/a> and Los Angeles Kings<\/a>. Everyone and their mother is picking the Avalanche, and you\u2019d be hard-pressed to find anyone picking the series to go longer than five games.<\/p>\n

Then again, who are we to doubt the capricious will of the hockey gods? After all, Kings fans themselves remember sneaking into to postseason as an eighth seed in 2012 and going on Cinderella run to the Cup. These Kings are not those Kings, however, so they\u2019ll have to discover their own formula for upsetting the Presidents\u2019 Trophy-winning Avalanche.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday\u2019s episode of\u00a0Daily Faceoff LIVE<\/a>,\u00a0hosts Tyler Yaremchuk and former NHL goaltender Carter Hutton discussed what it will take for Los Angeles to topple mighty Colorado.<\/p>\n

Tyler\u00a0Yaremchuk:\u00a0D.J. Smith had the comment after last night\u2019s game where he was like \u201cThey\u2019re not going to score just two goals every game.\u201d If we want to give that series a little bit of love, and I know if there are any Kings fans watching they\u2019re just going to be rolling their eyes going \u201cHere\u2019s the Kings hater Tyler chiming in,\u201d but L.A. needs to find a way push a little bit here and generate some offense. I don\u2019t think they can go and try to play these games and go \u201cWe\u2019re going to try to beat Colorado 2-1 tonight.\u201d You\u2019re just not.<\/p>\n

Carter\u00a0Hutton:\u00a0I also think the factor of the way Scott Wedgewood is playing, you\u2019ve got to make it very, very difficult on a little bit of an undersized goalie with traffic and making it hell for him. Just trying to sit back and grind out wins, I just don\u2019t think it\u2019s going to be effective against the Colorado Avalanche. It\u2019s not that I\u2019m trying to hate on the Kings, I just look at their backend and their speed and there\u2019s really no way for them to move the puck. They don\u2019t have a lot of puck-moving defenseman to beat guys up ice and generate offense, so I really think this is going to be a big challenge for the L.A. Kings. <\/p>\n

You can catch the full discussion and the rest of Tuesday\u2019s episode here\u2026<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Stanley Cup playoffs are famously unpredictable, to the point where every year you can bank on at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5126],"tags":[5,186,1760,240,5303,793,145,5304,5302,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-557469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-kings","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-kings","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-la-kings","12":"tag-lakings","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-los-angeles-kings","15":"tag-losangeles","16":"tag-losangeleskings","17":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116444572142687471","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}