Game 15: Kings vs Pittsburgh Penguins 3:4 OT

Entertaining offensive game brings one point only

The puck watches goalie Cloutier's back way to often this season...
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LA goals from: Michael Cammalleri, Dustin Brown, Rob Blake.
PIT goals from: Malkin (2) , Staal, Welsch,

The pros: Very entertaining game with quite a lot of scoring chances for the Kings (games like those have not come about very often lately). Great work in the offensive zone by the likes of Alex Frolov (also on PK) and terrific forechecking and finishing checks by omnipresent Brown. Good focus on the part of the Kings to open frames one and two with quick goals.

The cons: Shaky play in the corners by Aaron Miller - his "flatfootedness" lead directly to losing the puck in the corner and successive goal for the Penguins. Veterans Brian Willsie, Craig Conroy and Scott Thornton combined for 0 (zero) shots on goal. Dan Cloutier is yet to steal the game for LA: all of the four goals could be decribed as stoppable in a kiprusoffian vocabulary. I'm still waiting for a string of purely spectacular saves in a game from either King goaltender.

A good game overall, just a tad unlucky for the home team, as they watched Evgeni Malkin make history with his sixth goal in the first six career games in the NHL.