by Brian Kennedy | Nov 17, 2024 | Detroit Red Wings, Los Angeles Kings
Come off the first half of a back-to-back, switch out your goalie. That’s the plan almost universally followed in this era when stats rule and the numbers say that goaltending drops off significantly in the second game. And that was the plan followed by the Detroit...
by Brian Kennedy | Oct 31, 2024 | Los Angeles Kings
The LA Kings came into the second game in a back-to-back trying to put a tempest in a teapot behind them. They had lost the night before in San Jose, 4-2, in a dispirited affair that saw them taking just two shots in the last period. It was a game played without the...
by Brian Kennedy | Oct 25, 2024 | Los Angeles Kings
Sometimes, the chemistry of a forward line just clicks, on no particular effort of coaching. Such is the case with the Kings’ current third line. The trio gave the Kings two goals in a 3-2 win over the San Jose Sharks Thursday evening in Los Angeles. The line carried...
by Brian Kennedy | Mar 8, 2024 | Los Angeles Kings
Los Angeles, CA–The LA Kings are hurting, which is to say, they have some key players on IR. Primary amongst those were day-to-day Adrian Kempe and Mikey Anderson on Thursday night, with Ottawa having made their way up the freeway from a game in Anaheim the...
by Brian Kennedy | Mar 4, 2024 | Los Angeles Kings, New Jersey Devils
Los Angeles, CA—Beware the backhand. In another day, one’s father would not allow the purchase of a curved stick because it was a sure way to weaken the backhand. If my dad had talked to Cam Talbot fifteen seconds into the game against New Jersey in Los Angeles on...
by Brian Kennedy | Feb 25, 2024 | Anaheim Ducks, Los Angeles Kings
Los Angeles, CA—Two nights prior to this one, more than two dozen scouts showed up to watch the LA Kings take on, and lose to, the Nashville Predators. Now here it was, Saturday, and everybody seemed to have better things to do. Just three pro scouts were in the usual...
