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 26, 2017 | Homepage, Los Angeles Kings, New York Rangers
The Rangers, from a distance, look like a big team. Physically big. Like it would be hard to get the puck off them. Perhaps that’s why the Kings made so many mistakes against them in the early going of their game in LA on Saturday night. The most egregious—Gaborik at...
by Brian Kennedy | Mar 17, 2017 | Buffalo Sabres, Homepage, Leagues, Los Angeles Kings, NHL
Well, Sutter finally said it: “We took a lot of shots; we always do. Guys don’t have shots, that usually means they’re not quite on their game, but the team we were playing blocks a lot of shots and gets in shooting lanes. We’re not a team that’s going to score a lot...
by Brian Kennedy | Feb 26, 2017 | Anaheim Ducks, Homepage, Leagues, Los Angeles Kings, NHL
Surprise! They yell it when you enter your front door and a birthday party previously unbeknownst to you is about to commence. They yelled at Staples Center, too, only this wasn’t any birthday party. It was a coming out party—Jonathan Quick was back! Was it...
by Brian Kennedy | Apr 23, 2016 | Homepage, Los Angeles Kings, NHL, San Jose Sharks
It wasn’t just a slow start. It was practically no start at all that the LA Kings got off to on Friday night with their season on the line. The reasons? The non-conspiracy types might have said that it was the Kings’ lack of offense. No set-up in the Sharks’ zone. The...
