Ersberg in goal tonight
Erik Ersberg will make another start for the Kings in goal tonight. Ersberg is winless in three starts, but he's played well for the Kings, who are 0-1-2 with him in the net.
``We’ll give him another opportunity tonight,'' Crawford said. ``He’s played well enough that he should have a victory by now. He hasn’t gotten one, but as we said to him, just keep doing the things you’re doing. He plays his angles very well. He’s a very good skater. He sucks rebounds and shots into him and doesn’t spread a lot of pucks out. We found it’s been easier for our defensemen to play. We’ve done a decent job of keeping the opposition to the perimeter and not giving up a lot of second and third chances. A big part of that is incumbent on the goaltender not to spray his rebounds. That’s the biggest area we see that he’s got a high level at. He looks like he’s very comfortable in the net. We said to him, `Just keep trying to find ways to make that one extra save so we can turn these one-goal defeats into a chance to get us to overtime or maybe the difference in the game.' ’’
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I predict Ersberg will get his first win.
King's offense should get plenty of opportunities to put the puck in the net.
These Eastern conference teams play more a wide-open game.
I would like to see Ersberg play out the rest of the season as whatever motivated Cloutier to play 2 games really well seems to have lost its effect.
I'd prefer less than 4 minutes of icetime myself.
Just me or do Crow's comments about rebound control sound like an indictment of JLB. Now that he's out for the season, tell us how you really feel, Crow.
"He (Ersberg) sucks rebounds and shots into him and doesn’t spread a lot of pucks out. We found it’s been easier for our defensemen to play. We’ve done a decent job of keeping the opposition to the perimeter and not giving up a lot of second and third chances. A big part of that is incumbent on the goaltender not to spray his rebounds."
Looks like Crawford has finally seen the light. He's just stopped short of saying Labarbera and Cloutier sucks.
Congrats x2 to Erik Ersberg on his first NHL win & first NHL shutout!!
Looks like we found ourselves a goalie!
Congrats Erik!