by Brian Kennedy | Apr 3, 2017 | Homepage, Los Angeles Kings, Utah Hockey Club
When your playoff hopes are hanging by a thread, you’ll try anything. That’s perhaps why Darryl Sutter called a coach’s challenge on Arizona’s first goal Sunday night. Desperation turned to actuality, though, when it appeared (to the linesmen) that the puck had...
by Brian Kennedy | Mar 12, 2017 | Homepage, Los Angeles Kings, NHL
The LA Kings are hanging by a thread, not thanks to them, but thanks to their now-archrival, St. Louis, who beat the Ducks in the last minute Friday, then whacked the Islanders on Saturday before the LA-Washington game began at 7:30 California time. That meant that...
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 15, 2017 | Homepage, Los Angeles Kings, Winnipeg Jets
Judging by twitter (don’t stop reading, please), Jets fans love to hate their team. Now I know that that’s not exclusive to them, but with Winnipeg folks, it seems more intense somehow. Take Saturday night. The twitter feed with Winnipeg in town to play the Kings went...
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...
