Suggested questions for Dave Tippet at the press conference: At some point, did you consider calling a timeout when your team started to completely self destruct? Would you consider the level of integrity left in the room after this game to be slim or none? Do you remember the exact moment in this game that [...]
L.A. Kings Euthanize Coyotes 4-0 And Expose Its Players For What They Are – Vermin
May 15, 2012 By 58 Comments
St. Louis Blues @ LA Kings Round 2 Game 3 Open Forum – Aggressor Defined
May 3, 2012 By 35 Comments
Coming home with a 2-0 series lead? Been there. Leaving Staples up 3-0? Done that. No reason we won’t do it again. Though the St. Louis Blues will have something to say about it, people in St. Louis speak not with words but with… with… um… oh hell I don’t care enough about the city [...]
LA Kings @ St. Louis Blues Round 2 Game 2 Open Forum – No Road Less Traveled
April 30, 2012 By 48 Comments
This is quickly becoming a familiar situation. A top team in the league goes into game 2 with the home ice advantage they worked so tirelessly throughout the season to gain nullified, behind the 8-ball, in desperate need of a win lest they go on the road without a win to their name. Meanwhile, the [...]
Vancouver Canucks @ LA Kings Round 1 Game 4 Open Forum – Spring Cleaning
April 18, 2012 By
The weather is starting to turn and brings Kings’ tides and fortunes along for the ride. There is only one word on everyone’s mind and this time it’s not an order to the maid: Sweep. Sweep the Vancouver Canucks off our ice. Sweep the Sedins back to Sweden for the summer. Sweep Ryan Kesler’s feet [...]
Kings vs. Canucks Playoff Thoughts, Tidbits & Musings
April 16, 2012 By
When you think about how significant Anze Kopitar, Dustin Brown and Jonathan Quick have been to the L.A. Kings’ success, remember that they were drafted by the man whose name and number hangs at Staples Center – Dave Taylor. Quick was drafted in 2005, 3rd round, 72nd overall. What a steal. That is the same [...]
Vancouver Canucks @ LA Kings Round 1 Game 3 Open Forum – Homecoming
April 15, 2012 By
I don’t have much to say. I think I said too much last night. I plan to say more tonight. Well… Maybe say is the wrong term. Yell. Bellow. Scream. Twist? It could happen. Shout. Definitely. The Kings have a golden opportunity tonight, one they have not had in ages, to take a 3-0 lead [...]
How To Beat The Canucks
April 10, 2012 By
With sticks, dummy. Big sticks. But, that would be too much like Ryane Clowe, so we’re gonna need strategy instead. Since the Sharks taught us that little things can be a turning point in a game, and since McSorely taught us that a little thing can be a turning point in an entire series, the Kings need [...]
Way To Go Kings!
March 25, 2012 By
On February 25, the Kings were in 10th, had gone 2-6-2 over their last ten, and the surging Ducks were only 4 points back. Even though the Kings were tied in points with 8th place Dallas, the Kings seemed more likely to be overtaken from behind (nice image, huh?) than to challenge for the Division Title. [...]
Bye Bye Win Streak: Bruins Beats Kings 4-2
March 24, 2012 By
Stupidity ruled the day as the Kings twice mimicked the lack of intelligence exhibited by the hoards of Bruin fans with terrible goals against in what amounted to the conclusion of a 6 game winning streak. Between Drew Doughty making two bone head lazy passes within 3 seconds of each other and giving up the [...]
If I Were King: In-Game
March 10, 2012 By
It would be my decree to decry defense and decriminalize offense. And this is how. My over-riding theory would be to put guys where they belong, and where they have the best chance of success playing their own game. Screw the F3 as jargon, also. From now on, it is S1,S2,S3,S4 and D. I would [...]
Kings In Detroit Suck City
March 10, 2012 By
I missed Nashville. Sounded fun. I missed Columbus. An achilles heel with an added punch to the Johnson. I thought I would miss Detroit too. Hell, I doubt if I’m going to be able to make it to Tuesday’s home game against Detroit. I’ve worked 70 hours this week. It will be closer to 80 [...]
BlueJack
March 9, 2012 By
Happy for Jack Johnson? Fuck him. He is on the other team. This is us against the world. We are in a fight for our lives. He needed to be hit early, he needed to be neutralized all night with close, tough physical presence in his end of the ice. He needed to be looked [...]
The Dutch Perspective: Don’t Take Me For a Sutting Idiot, OK?
March 4, 2012 By
… So apparently, I missed the whole situation with the Kopitar line being benched for the last six minutes of the second period – just after the goal by the Ducks’ Devante Smith-Pelly. Darryl Sutter said: “We played the guys that were mentally tough, because they all weren’t. They’re still learning that. There were guys [...]
Temporary Insanity Or Evil Genius? Anze Kopitar Goes Left.
March 2, 2012 By
Kopitar-Richards-Carter Brown-Stoll-Williams Penner-Richardson-Lewis Clifford-Fraser-Nolan The words “Kopitar left” swim in my occupied mind. They have done the breast stroke for the past week. On defense, he is big and has a nice reach. Anze can occupy and take away lanes, keep the puck from the defensemen and intercept passes. That is primarily what a wing [...]
Is It Over Yet? The L.A. Kings And The Impetus of Impotence…
February 25, 2012 By
The momentum of mediocrity. The inertia of ineptitude… Can it end? Will it end? I wanted this team to do well this season; contend legitimately for the Division title (even lose is okay, but contend) make the playoffs, score some goals and improve the power play. Well, surprise, surprise surprise, it’s all still possible. Likely? [...]
The Case For Jeff Carter > Rick Nash
February 20, 2012 By
I’ve stayed pretty quiet on this whole Rick Nash to the LA Kings hubbub, partially because Scribe is spasming out far more than our quota of trade speculation posts but mostly because I haven’t really settled on a feeling about trading for Nash. My general thoughts have been that no trade will rectify what ails [...]
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