by Brian Kennedy | Jan 18, 2016 | Anaheim Ducks, Homepage, Los Angeles Kings
Ducks fans aren’t typically an incredibly noisy bunch. That’s not a knock. They just like to enjoy their hockey with a little bit of a demure demeanor. But when the Kings come to town, look out. Take Sunday night. Iven though the arena in Anaheim wasn’t full when the...
by Brian Kennedy | Jan 16, 2016 | Homepage, Los Angeles Kings, NHL, Ottawa Senators
The big news in LA, the news that trumps all other news: we finally have a football team. Wait. This is Inside Hockey, so you probably don’t care about that. Me neither. No, it was this: number 11 is now and likely forever will be an LA King. You know the guy—the...
by Brian Kennedy | Oct 31, 2015 | Homepage, Los Angeles Kings, Nashville Predators
For the first week of the season in LA, it looked, in the immortal words of Ernest Thayer, like “there was no joy in Mudville.” Nothing was going right, and the hockey team wasn’t winning. People were starting to ask if the Sutter era was over. How silly that was is...
by Brian Kennedy | Apr 11, 2015 | Homepage, Los Angeles Kings, San Jose Sharks
“Every single one of us is getting massacred/on a frozen path.” So say the Dears, a Montreal band, in their song, “Gang of Losers.” Sounds a lot like what’s happened to the NHL team in Los Angeles this season. They’ve won just 40 times, losing 27 and tying 15. Had...
by Brian Kennedy | Feb 17, 2015 | Homepage, Los Angeles Kings, Tampa Bay Lightning
The Kings got some help without even asking for it in the form of Boston beating Calgary Monday night. Wait. That was to be the headline, and when I headed upstairs to the Staples Center pressbox, the Bruins seemed to have the Flames well in hand, up 3-0 with little...
