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 Brian Kennedy | Apr 17, 2016 | Homepage, Los Angeles Kings, NHL, San Jose Sharks
Drew Doughty said a few weeks ago that the Kings know how to play a certain way and can do it consistently since they’ve been at it a long while. What was he talking about? The confident, defensively excellent style that has won them two recent Stanley Cups. Well,...
by Brian Kennedy | Mar 13, 2016 | Homepage, Los Angeles Kings, New Jersey Devils
The LA Kings should have been energized entering their Saturday evening game against New Jersey. The Devils aren’t playing all that well, sitting seventh in their conference and fifth in the East’s wildcard race and being losers of five of their last seven games and...
by Brian Kennedy | Jan 22, 2016 | Homepage, Los Angeles Kings, Minnesota Wild, NHL
The Kings have once again shifted their lines around, but it’s more a matter of maximizing what they have than punishing anyone. After all, the team has won two games (coming into Thursday, when the Wild came to town) since losing to the Senators and enduring the...
by Brian Kennedy | Jan 16, 2016 | Homepage, Los Angeles Kings, NHL, Ottawa Senators
The big news in LA, the news that trumps all other news: we finally have a football team. Wait. This is Inside Hockey, so you probably don’t care about that. Me neither. No, it was this: number 11 is now and likely forever will be an LA King. You know the guy—the...