by Brian Kennedy | Feb 20, 2017 | Anaheim Ducks, Homepage, Los Angeles Kings, NHL
The Kings and Ducks are in playoff races, with the latter being much more assured that all will end well than the former. Sunday night, they played each other. Several stories competed for attention while the teams competed for the win. I’ll give them to you here; you...
by Brian Kennedy | Feb 19, 2017 | Florida Panthers, Homepage, Los Angeles Kings, NHL
The Kings have come home. After playing nine of ten games away, they have played two at home. Things haven’t gone well. In fact, they didn’t go all that great on the road, either, though during one stretch in ten games including Saturday versus Florida in LA, they won...
by Brian Kennedy | Jan 13, 2017 | Homepage, Los Angeles Kings
What a difference a couple of days make. Or three. Monday night, the Kings were in LA versus Dallas. They posted four goals and still lost the game on a goaltending performance that was mediocre. In fact, even the visiting goalie was pretty stinky, and got pulled....
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...