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...
by Brian Kennedy | Feb 13, 2024 | Los Angeles Kings
Welcome, new guy. Do you need to know how to get from parking spot to coach’s office? No? Wait. Haven’t I met you somewhere before? Hey—you were with the Kings, right? As a player back in the 1990s? Played 40 games and scored six goals on the way to a 63-game,...
by Brian Kennedy | Jan 27, 2024 | Los Angeles Kings
Honoring the past while still in the present—that’s what the Kings did Wednesday night as present-day captain, Anze Kopitar, was feted in a brief ceremony before the team’s game versus Buffalo. He returned the favor by going straight out and scoring the game’s first...
by Brian Kennedy | Jan 21, 2024 | Los Angeles Kings
Los Angeles, CA—Something’s gotta change. That is evident when it comes to the LA Kings, though what that something is, is up for question. Coming into Saturday’s game versus the New York Rangers, the team had lost nine of ten games. More precisely, going back to late...
by Brian Kennedy | Dec 4, 2023 | Anaheim Ducks, Colorado Avalanche, Los Angeles Kings
The Colorado Avalanche went west on the weekend, hoping for four points and ending up with one. What happened, and what does the disparity in style of play they experienced say about what will work in the playoffs, when they arrive? The Avalanche tired themselves out...
by Brian Kennedy | Nov 26, 2023 | Anaheim Ducks, Los Angeles Kings
The Anaheim Ducks have played at mid-day on Black Friday for years. It used to be that Chicago was the opponent, and the lore was, “They’re on their circus trip,” by which it was meant that the Blackhawks were vacating their arena so that the circus could take up...
