Having a real life talented first line left wing in Dustin Penner? Check Anze Kopitar coming alive as a result? Check Continuing to play excellent team defense? Check Drew Doughty looking like a star again? Check Jonathan Quick playing great?… Read More ›
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LA KINGS POST GAME: ANZE KOPITAR HAT TRICK PROPELS KINGS TO 4-2 VICTORY
Loved it. This game and last, the LA Kings have looked like a different team. Feet moving on the powerplay, quick tape to tape passes and, with limited exceptions, nothing stood stationary along the half boards. Even when they did… Read More ›
SEVEN QUESTIONS ABOUT THE LA KINGS
1. Name the last Stanley Cup winning team with a poor and inconsistent power play and 5 on 3. 2. Name a post lockout Stanley Cup winning team that relied on a cycle along the boards – to the point… Read More ›
WILL TERRY MURRAY SWITCH THE LA KINGS’ LINES AGAIN?
That is what we call a rhetorical question. I won’t belabor this but I am willing to go out on a limb here and say we are soon going to see an LA Kings‘ first line of Ryan Smyth-Anze Kopitar-Justin… Read More ›
LA KINGS PLAYER PROFILE: DUSTIN PENNER AND EXPECTATIONS
Who is Dustin Penner? What does he bring? How will he help? Why does he fit? If you are as hockey obsessed as Surly & I, you may have read every article you could get your hands on from proclaimed… Read More ›
LA KINGS’ ANDREI LOKTIONOV SENT TO MANCHESTER…AND WE KNOW WHY
Dmitry Chesnokov asked Andrei Loktionov why he thought he was sent to the AHL. Lokti’s reply: “I don’t know,” We do. Lokti plays too cute of a game. Hockey is played along the boards. We call them the half boards but… Read More ›
LA KINGS POST GAME: TOO MUCH OF TOO LITTLE COSTS KINGS 3-0
No goals. Few scoring chances. Even less passes that connected. Too little, both early and late. I sure am glad Terry Murray benched Andrei Loktionov and shuffled the lines again. I am certain Lokti’s passing ability, penchant for getting open… Read More ›
A KOPITAR DIVIDED CANNOT STAND
Anze Kopitar. The new hot button issue. 1 goal in 20 games. 2 in 25, or something like that. Lots of assists, but to say Kopi is in a scoring drought is…well, it’s accurate. The numbers in one column aren’t there… Read More ›
BAILEY’S BUDDY
Ok…I laughed. Enjoy Bailey and his new BFF. Anze Kopitar is actually a decent actor.
LOMBARDI IRATE & PERSONALLY ATTACKS MIKE MURPHY OVER MARTIN HANZAL’S GOAL
Here is the Lombardi quote regarding the Coyotes’ 1st and eventual game winning goal that went off Martin Hanzal’s stick while above the cross bar. “When the guy in Toronto making the decisions on the goals, in Ottawa and the… Read More ›
KINGS HIT NEW LOW – LOSE TO MAPLE LEAFS 3-2
The Kings, as a team, coaching staff and franchise have a choice to make. This is adversity. It’s pain. It’s pressure. There are only two things that happen under pressure. You focus or you fold. Winners focus. Everyone else folds…. Read More ›
KINGS VS BLACKHAWKS GAME PREVIEW: ONE STEP TO FOUR
I pain even thinking about this game. I walk into Staples tonight with my head balancing delicately between uplifted pride and sagging despair. Today I am not a man who chooses his own destiny, but rather, one who squirms in… Read More ›
CHANNELING RAGE – KINGS v. PREDATORS PREVIEW
Every smug face at the gym today looked like Steen…and forced me to turn away or risk imminent assault. At the gas station, a fifty something year old man with a St. Louis Rams hat walked to his truck…I suppressed… Read More ›
KINGS SUCCUMB TO ST LOUIS BLUES AGGRESSION
The title says it all. The Kings battled. Tempers flared and fists flew. They took their licks and gave some back. However in the end, an inspiring and brutally hostile game by the St Louis Blues won out over the… Read More ›
FLAMES LEAVE L.A. FORTUNATE TO HAVE ONLY LOST 2-1
This game could have been 7-0. It should have been 7-0. I am not sure what Calgary thought it was doing on the ice tonight but if it was hockey they intended, they failed. I have seen spectators give more… Read More ›
