by Brian Kennedy | Oct 31, 2015 | Homepage, Los Angeles Kings, Nashville Predators
For the first week of the season in LA, it looked, in the immortal words of Ernest Thayer, like “there was no joy in Mudville.” Nothing was going right, and the hockey team wasn’t winning. People were starting to ask if the Sutter era was over. How silly that was is...
by Brian Kennedy | Oct 17, 2015 | Homepage, Los Angeles Kings
Everyone else is running away from the LA Kings, with even the Minnesota Wild, not most people’s pick for the Central Division crown prior to the season. Heck, even in numbers, the Kings are lagging nearly everyone. Three games, no wins, two goals, twelve given up, no...
by Brian Kennedy | Feb 13, 2015 | Calgary Flames, Homepage, Los Angeles Kings
Efficiency. Expending only the amount of effort one needs to to get the job done. That’s great if you’re talking about your home AC unit or (if you’re not a car guy) your chariot. But if you’re a hockey team, and what you do is observed by some number of tens of...
by Brian Kennedy | Nov 9, 2014 | Homepage, Los Angeles Kings, Vancouver Canucks
You know that saying, “Fifty is the new forty”? How about “red is the new black?” What about “Vancouver is the new Toronto”? In hockey terms, that’s just what’s happening. Here’s what I mean. Year after year, the Leafs’ games are played with promising...