by Brian Kennedy | Nov 24, 2016 | Homepage, Los Angeles Kings, New York Islanders, NHL
Your superstar comes back from injury, and what do you do with him? This was actually a bigger problem for the LA Kings on Wednesday night than it might at first have seemed to be. The team had been percolating along, winning three games in a row and gaining 7 of a...
by Brian Kennedy | Nov 21, 2016 | Anaheim Ducks, Homepage, Los Angeles Kings, NHL
The Ducks should have been the rested, and thus faster, team Sunday night with LA in town. Empirically, they’re the faster team anyway, but man, they didn’t look it aginst the Kings. The LA team, by the way, had played just 28 hours earlier, with New Jersey in for an...
by Darryl Houston Smith | Nov 20, 2016 | Boston Bruins, Darryl's Dispatch, Edmonton Oilers, Homepage, Los Angeles Kings
Milan Lucic bounded into the hearts of Boston Bruins fans as soon as he entered the league in 2007 as a 19-year-old rookie. In short order, calls of LOOCH could be heard in the Garden urging him down the ice and he eventually earned the Seventh Player award from the...
by Brian Kennedy | Nov 19, 2016 | Homepage, Leagues, Los Angeles Kings, NHL
Sometimes you find things in unlikely places. Like the truth about Rogie Vachon. You could find it in my book, Living the Hockey Dream, or in another one I wrote, Facing Wayne Gretzky. Or you could talk to now-LA Kings’ goalie Peter Budaj, as I did Saturday after the...
by Brian Kennedy | Nov 19, 2016 | Archived Features, Homepage, Leagues, Los Angeles Kings, New Jersey Devils, NHL
The Kings are nothing if not streaky. Their record is of winning, or losing, in bunches this year so far. Three losses, four wins, three losses, three wins, four losses (one OT point) and, coming into Saturday, a win. Logically, then, they would get another one on the...
by Brian Kennedy | Nov 4, 2016 | Homepage, Leagues, Los Angeles Kings, NHL, Pittsburgh Penguins
The scoring for the Pittsburgh Penguins is all at the bottom of the lineup—if you go numerically. Think about this: from 71 (Malkin) to 87 (you know who) the Pens had 36 points coming into Thursday night, when they faced the LA Kings. They would add three more on a...
