by Brian Kennedy | Apr 29, 2021 | Anaheim Ducks, Homepage, Los Angeles Kings, NHL
Until Wednesday night, only three players drafted in the first round in 2020, a draft held in October, had debuted in the league. Make that four following the game night as Quinton Byfield, #2 pick overall by the LA Kings, got into his first NHL game. He started with...
by Brian Kennedy | Jan 11, 2021 | Anaheim Ducks, Archived Features, Homepage, Leagues, Los Angeles Kings, NHL
Hockey abruptly stopped in March, and for Kings and Ducks fans, it never got going again, because neither team completed in the playoffs, even with the addition of teams for a qualifying round. Thus SoCal fans have been focused on other things, or on not much of...
by Neal McHale | Oct 7, 2020 | Boston Bruins, Homepage, New Jersey Devils, New York Rangers, NHL, Ottawa Senators, Tampa Bay Lightning, Vegas Golden Knights
For the class of 2020, Tuesday brought a certain degree of relief as much as it did clarity. Since the pause of the 2019-20 regular season and the subsequent trickle-down in nearly every other major, competitive, organized hockey league across the globe due to...
by Neal McHale | Jun 26, 2020 | Homepage, NHL
Why? Because, of course. That’s why. Because in the absurdly-twisted and wildly-strange year that is 2020, it was just too perfect for the NHL Draft lottery not to be impacted. Because when Bill Daly entered Friday’s lottery with eight–not seven...