by Brian Kennedy | May 2, 2021 | Anaheim Ducks, Homepage, Los Angeles Kings
The speaker in TS Eliot’s “The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock” says at one point, “I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,/I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker/And in short, I was afraid.” Ryan Miller has no reason to fear. His greatness...
by Brian Kennedy | May 1, 2021 | Anaheim Ducks, Homepage, Los Angeles Kings, NHL
Big save Dave. Forget that guy. He’s way up there in Toronto. What about Big Save Jonathan? Quick, I’m talking about, a one-man show in Anaheim with his Kings playing there Friday night. The shots were terribly lopsided, and the chances too (11-2 in period two...
by Brian Kennedy | Apr 29, 2021 | Anaheim Ducks, Homepage, Los Angeles Kings, NHL
Until Wednesday night, only three players drafted in the first round in 2020, a draft held in October, had debuted in the league. Make that four following the game night as Quinton Byfield, #2 pick overall by the LA Kings, got into his first NHL game. He started with...
by Brian Kennedy | Apr 27, 2021 | Anaheim Ducks, Homepage, Los Angeles Kings
The LA Kings had no choice but to win Monday night. They’d better do the same for the next three games, too—all of those, including Monday, against the Anaheim Ducks. The first of the four was in LA, and the Kings had on their purple retro sweaters adorned with gold...
by Brian Kennedy | Apr 25, 2021 | Anaheim Ducks, Arizona Coyotes, Homepage, Los Angeles Kings, Vegas Golden Knights
The Anaheim Ducks had no answer for the Las Vegas Golden Knights Saturday night in front of approximately ten percent of the usual Honda Center crowd. But then again, they weren’t supposed to. Entering the night, the Ducks were 3-6-1 in their last ten games and on a...
by Brian Kennedy | Apr 24, 2021 | Homepage, Los Angeles Kings, Minnesota Wild
East Coasters and Canadian Division fans don’t much know or care what’s happening out West, it seems. Most have assumed that the fourth spot (after Vegas and Colorado, already in, and Minnesota, a lock at 63 points) will go to the Blues. Don’t look now, but they don’t...
