Jimmie: I can’t believe this is the same car. The Wolf: Well, let’s not start sucking each other’s dicks quite yet. We won. We scored 4 goals. Two of the goals were of the awesome variety with one timers by Alec Martinez and Mike Richards. We got into some bad habits but, for the most [...]
Surly Gets An Interview With Terry Murray?
October 30, 2011 By
I don’t know how he does it. Surly has literally risked life and limb for you in the past. Just this season, he sacrificed work, traveled to Kansas City & brought us an interview with Terry Murray you won’t read anywhere else as well as, more recently, undercover to spy on a meeting between Murray & Dustin [...]
Shut Out? Shit!
October 25, 2011 By
Ask me which LA Kings player had a good game and I would pause…I may not be able to give you a single name. Ask me who played like they were hung over or nursing a case of the sucks and I would reply, “you want the whole list or just the top 10?” That [...]
An Unpopular Opinion: Play Jonathan Bernier
October 23, 2011 By
In our goaltender preview, I wrote: If Jonathan Quick can drop his GAA under 2.10 (he was 2.24 last season) and get that SV% up to .930 (from .918), this Kings’ fan will be smiling. As for Bernier, I want the same or similar numbers although they will likely come in less games. I don’t [...]
Surly & Scribe’s L.A. Kings’ Season Preview: The Goalies
September 20, 2011 By
This is weird…it’s great, but it’s weird. On the subject of goaltenders, I am not nostalgic of the old days. Remember when we entered each season wondering just how much we were going to suck between the pipes? No more. This franchise’s greatest weakness has become its strength. Now, we have two young stars in [...]
In Defense Of Drew Doughty
September 9, 2011 By
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 season two, promise intersected with production and Doughty exceeded every level of expectation by playing [...]
JONATHAN BERNIER v. ERIK ERSBERG: THIS TIME, IT’S PERSONAL
May 8, 2011 By
The stage: The 2011 IIHF World Championships in Slovakia. The teams: Canada v. Sweden The goaltenders: Jonathan Bernier v. Erik Ersberg The day: Monday Canada is 5-0 in the tournament. Sweden would have been 5-0, if not for the shootout loss against Norway. Is Canada better? Yes, and according to Sweden’s coach, Par Marts (which I [...]
THE ROYAL REPORT CARD, PART I – THE GOALIES AND DEFENSE
May 2, 2011 By
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 with his puck wisdom and written words. Surly thinks of Harry as S&S’s third jersey [...]
IT’S ALL ABOUT WORK ETHIC
April 5, 2011 By
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 clinching the playoff spot is one of them. The LA Kings, coming off a humbling [...]
CHECK THIS. CHECK THAT. THE LA KINGS JOURNEY CONTINUES
March 16, 2011 By
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? Check Jonathan Bernier playing just as well? Check Our head coach Terry Murray and/or powerplay [...]
LA KINGS POST GAME: ANZE KOPITAR HAT TRICK PROPELS KINGS TO 4-2 VICTORY
March 12, 2011 By
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 not convert, the team had quality scoring chances. Add an already solid defense and a [...]
TERRY MURRAY CONTINUES TO TEASE…THIS TIME WITH JONATHAN BERNIER
March 10, 2011 By
First, he acknowledges after 3/4 of the season that the powerplay is too stationary and needs movement to the LA Kings’ fan base collectively cheering and now, despite Jonathan Quick’s stellar performance in goal against the Detroit Red Wings, tells Hammond he is putting in Jonathan Bernier in the next game against Columbus. The latter is especially [...]
VANCOUVER’S PROVINCE DOES Q&A WITH US ABOUT THE LA KINGS
March 4, 2011 By
Thought you would enjoy this. The boys at the Province’s Kurtenblog did a Q&A with me about the LA Kings. Topics included the Penner trade, Dustin Brown, Quick v. Bernier, Willie Mitchell’s performance, the playoffs and more. The link is here: Surly & Scribe talk puck with Kurtenblog
LA KINGS HOCKEY MUSINGS: SWITCHING GOALIES BEFORE THE SHOOTOUT
February 17, 2011 By
This is not completely serious. It’s one of those half serious or perhaps one-fourth serious thoughts. After the game, I had a vision of the Kings’ last game of the season and imagined one in which LA had to get two points or they would miss the playoffs. That game would take years from my [...]
LOSE AND YOU’RE IN?
January 19, 2011 By
We all remember Terry Murray’s “He won. He won. He’s playing. He won. Period” This became the “win and you’re in” philosophy that our aged leader behind the bench proclaimed as goaltending law. The Kings lost on Monday against the Stars 2-1. Bernier played well. Terry Murray thought he gave up one bad goal, the first [...]
TOPSY TERRY MURRAY’S ADJUSTMENTS TO THE LOSS II
January 18, 2011 By
Well, we got 2 out of 3 on the last Topsy Terry Thread. Let’s predict what his adjustments to this one against the Blues will be? Let’s see, last time we said he will shuffle the lines and HE DID! Think we will stick with that one for the next game. We also guessed Quick [...]
TERRY MURRAY TO RICH HAMMOND TO GOALIES: WIN AND YOU’RE IN
January 16, 2011 By
“He won. He won. He’s playing. He won. Period.” Not since “if it doesn’t fit, you must acquit” has there been a more fun quote than “win and you’re in.” Actually, it’s not Murray’s quote. Terry just implied it. Rich Hammond came up with the beauty. Well, technically, it’s not even Rich’s quote as the [...]
KINGS SERVE LEFTOVERS AGAINST NASHVILLE
January 6, 2011 By
I have tasted this meal before. Predictable offensive zone entries, complete lack of creativity with the puck, failure to get the puck to the hashmarks or above, shots sailing over the net or wide, horrendous spacing between the forwards and defensemen on the breakouts, mind numbing turnovers and mental errors at our own blue line [...]
KINGS GO MASOCHIST IN 7-4 LOSS TO FLYERS
December 31, 2010 By
If the Kings were a 16 year old teenager tonight, they would be cutting themselves and investing in goth makeup. I don’t know what the hell our boys thought they were doing out there but if it was hockey, then the entire defense needs to get off the football and stop acting like monkeys. Drew [...]
Recent Comments