Blue Jackets at Kings: Everything is Coming Up Regehr!

I think I speak for everyone when I say, this game did not end AT ALL like I thought it would.

We knew that Tyler Toffoli was getting comfortable with the Kings, and that was even more apparent when he took a penalty about a minute into the first period. Way to integrate him into your system, Kings! The Blue Jackets took advantage of this early gift, and Jonathan Quick let in kind of a softie against former King, Jack Johnson.

Re: The Moulson Index. Did man create the storm? Did man create the monster? I did not create the Index, merely observed it’s awful power

— All The Kings Men (@KingsMenPodcast) February 7, 2014

This phenomenon has been frightening this season, and I hate it.

This goal didn’t phase the Kings at all, and by that I mean they continued to get hideously outplayed for the remainder of the period. “What’s puck possession?” asked the Kings while dumping the puck, only not being able to retrieve it. At this point, I was already drafting the recap, starting with, “well, the Kings are terrible still.” Little did I know what this game had in store!

The second period was a bit better, but still nothing on the board for the Kings. The third period changed that, and during some 4-on-4 play, Jake Muzzin taps one past Bobrovsky. Because Kopitar to Muzzin was definitely what we expected to tie this game up.

The Kings hang on and miracle of miracles, don’t allow a goal or take a penalty immediately following their tying tally. PROGRESS. In that vein, they also don’t allow a goal in the last 30 seconds of the 3rd (not that the Blue Jackets didn’t try with Quick bailing everyone out).

While we all cheered over the fact that the Kings got a point, Robyn Regehr apparently had other plans to shock us even more. He fires a rocket of a shot and beats Bobrovsky to win it all. So what I’m saying is, Robyn Regehr got the game-winning goal, in OT, to snap the Kings’ losing streak before the Olympic Break. ROBYN. REGEHR.

No one expected this. Literally, no one.

The post-game hosted by Patrick O’Neal and Sean O’Donnell was awash with absolute incredulity that it was Regehr who scored the goal. Literally every chance they had, they expressed their bafflement that Regehr won it for the Kings. Same dudes, same. The Kings’ two goals were scored by 2 defensemen because that’s what’s going on with the Kings’ offense right now, but 2 points are 2 points, and the Kings go on vacation as winners.

Because when will this happen again?