by Brian Kennedy | Mar 3, 2023 | Los Angeles Kings
“It’s a business.” With the trade deadline approaching and trades happening, I’ve heard this from hockey people, and even a couple of players, over the past few days and weeks. The words are often accompanied by a shrug of the shoulders, because when a favored player...
by Brian Kennedy | Feb 22, 2023 | Anaheim Ducks, Los Angeles Kings
With the Ducks hosting the Kings for a Friday night encounter, it’s time to talk about what one team has and what the other does not in various categories, not as a way of saying who’s the better team(their points totals tell that tale pretty well) but as a way of...
by Brian Kennedy | Feb 14, 2023 | Los Angeles Kings
Los Angeles—For Dustin Brown’s first NHL game, he didn’t know that there was player parking under the arena. So he found a spot in a nearby lot, paid the $20, and walked over to (then) Staples Center. Nobody on the way over knew who he was. Eighteen seasons later, he...
by Brian Kennedy | Feb 14, 2023 | Los Angeles Kings
What’s doing with the LA Kings these days? They had two weeks off surrounding the All-Star game and by-week, and it was thought that they’d come back flat. Not good when the opponent to open the remainder of their season was the Pittsburgh Penguins, who were coming...
by Brian Kennedy | Jan 12, 2023 | Los Angeles Kings
What do Jonathan Bernier and Martin Jones have in common? They both won Stanley Cups on the bench in support of Jonathan Quick. Even saying that, there’s Quick, as you’d expect, dominating the near- and middle-term memories of Kings fans. But there’s a new person in...
by Brian Kennedy | Jan 9, 2023 | Los Angeles Kings
Remember when Roman Cechmanek was the LA Kings’ goalie? Of course you don’t, because Jonathan Quick’s outstanding performance in net, which stretches to nearly 15 seasons now, has erased memories—mostly bad ones—of almost every goalie who has put on the crown since,...
