It’s September and the best part about September is that it is almost October. The 2011-2012 NHL season is on the horizon. I generally find season previews annoying, mostly because they all say the same thing. Here is how they… Read More ›
Tag Archive for ‘JACK JOHNSON’
In Defense Of Drew Doughty
Drew Doughty has spent three seasons with the LA Kings. He made the team out of camp as a rookie, had a solid inaugural season and appeared poised to become one of the best young defensemen in the league. In… Read More ›
Zach Parise Must Come
Each time the subject of Zach Parise comes up, I partially tune out. It’s not because I don’t want to see him as a Los Angeles King. I do. It’s because I used to find the odds about the same… Read More ›
Willie Mitchell Talks Drew Doughty…And The More Talented Jack Johnson?
Fan 590 talked with Willie Mitchell. Click on the link in the preceding sentence. Some interesting comments about Jack Johnson, Drew Doughty, Mike Richards, concussions and fishing. Fast forward to the 46:07 of the podcast. That is where the Mitchell… Read More ›
ROYAL REPORT CARD, PART IV: TEAM PERFORMANCE, COACHES AND MANAGEMENT
Harry Halkidis brings you part IV of his Royal Report Card. The final chapter concludes with an overall team assessment of the Kings’ offense, defense, special teams, coaches, and management. Team Offense (C): Only five other NHL clubs averaged less goals… Read More ›
THE ROYAL REPORT CARD, PART I – THE GOALIES AND DEFENSE
Harry Halkidis is a knowledgeable LA Kings’ and hockey fan, an excellent writer and an all around good guy. I have been courting him for nearly a year to join us at Surly & Scribe and he finally honored us… Read More ›
KINGS DEMORALIZE SHARKS IN GAME 2
No Kopitar? Kings have no chance. Well wait a minute, they lost game 1 but hey they didn’t look too out of place. Shit, now no Jarret Stoll? Top 2 centers out of the lineup, why bother playing the game?… Read More ›
IT’S ALL ABOUT WORK ETHIC
A week before season’s end is no time to learn new tricks. The cliché if you haven’t figured it out by now, you’re f***** applies in many circumstances and the end of the regular season & one win away from… Read More ›
LA KINGS POST GAME: ****!!
Sometimes, poetry yields to profanity. Profane was Jack Johnson’s turnover. Profane was the mental and stature challenged midget in stripes waiving off Alexei Ponikarovsky’s goal when Ponikarovsky was clear as crystal violently shoved into Ray Emery for everyone other than… 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 ›
I HOPE I’M JUST STUPID
Terry Murray is a man with a vision. Visions of the future. Of better, happier times, when we all share in the love that issues forth from the top on down, blurring lines between the haves and the have-nots. Gandhi… Read More ›
DOUGHTY & JOHNSON: “HEY MURRAY, WHAT TOOK YA SO LONG?”
If you recall, which you probably don’t as we hockey nut jobs tend to do terrible, terrible things to our bodies on a semi-regular regular basis (read: 82/yr) that make the memory not work so good sometimes, that about 2… Read More ›
L.A. PLAYS LIKE KINGS, SHUTS OUT BOSTON BRUINS 2-0
I’ve seen this team before. A suffocating defense. An offense not built on the perimeter. Rage against the machine that tries to suck the creativity from your game. Players holding the puck until they have lanes before they shoot and… Read More ›
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 ›
WHY DOUGHTY AND JOHNSON ARE TERRIBLE… AS A PAIRING
I was flabbergasted to see Doughty and Johnson paired together throughout the game against Dallas last night. One would have thought that the stretches they played together so far would have put to rest any ambition of these two young… Read More ›
