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The Dutch Perspective: Make No Mistake Where You Are …
… So, on the evening of the Leap Day, and headed into March, I don’t know if there’s much to say here without feeling like a broken record. The same things I’ve said about the lack of scoring all...
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Source: Dustin Penner Close To Signing Two Year, $7MM Deal
Yup. What the fuck, right? That familiar old term of contention, deal in principle, applies to this situation, but only in so far as the papers haven’t been processed. We heard about this last night...
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Kings Beat Canucks In Game One 4-2. Enjoy It & Get Back To Business On Friday
I tweeted before puck drop: I am so relaxed before the Kings game. Why am I so relaxed? No nerves. No nervous energy. No, I am not medicated. Crazy? Not really. By the end of the second, even after the...
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Kings vs. Canucks Game 1 Hangover Musings
Johnny: “What did you have to drink?” Bobby: “A lot.” Johnny: “No, what, not how much.” Bobby: “To drink?” Johnny: “Yes.” Bobby: “A lot.” Johnny: “Fucker!” Byron Bitz got suspended for two games. This...
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L.A. Kings Take Game One 3-1 Over The St. Louis Blues. I Have Orgasm.
I stayed off Twitter today. I stayed away from the house during the first period. Instead, I hit a local bar and the tightly packed bartender, Talena, put on the game for me with a smile. It was...
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LA Kings @ St. Louis Blues Round 2 Game 2 Open Forum – No Road Less Traveled
This is quickly becoming a familiar situation. A top team in the league goes into game 2 with the home ice advantage they worked so tirelessly throughout the season to gain nullified, behind the...
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L.A. Kings Euthanize Coyotes 4-0 And Expose Its Players For What They Are –...
Suggested questions for Dave Tippet at the press conference: At some point, did you consider calling a timeout when your team started to completely self destruct? Would you consider the level of...
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We’re Going To The Cup Finals – Reflection on The Game, The Airport And Video
Has it sunk in for you yet? I’m still in a daze, but a daze with the broadest of smiles worked into the fabric of my face. We’re going to the Cup finals. My whole life I’ve wanted to go meet this team...
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Have We Been Spoiled By This Playoff Run?
Wednesday night Darryl Sutter laughed at the notion that the Kings are somehow flawed for having not been able to close out the Devils in four games, as they have had similar trouble in two other...
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2012 Free Agency for the 2012 Stanley Cup Champions
Fellow puck fanatics, I am Andrew Elkins. I am an English Major at the University of Wisconsin, a hockey player, an impassioned supporter of our 2012 Stanley Cup Champions and a new blogger for...
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What a Strange Sequence of Events Led to The Stanley Cup Kings
Consider this… At the same time the Ryan Smyth soap opera took place, Dean Lombardi was in discussions with the Philadelphia Flyers about Mike Richards. The trades occurred within a day of each other....
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The Dustin Penner Dilemma. To Sign or Not to Sign…from His Perspective.
I wish I was 6’4″ and 240 pounds with a good stride and soft hands. I would pummel opposing forwards and defensemen and my ass would be planted in front of the goaltender every time we had the puck in...
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Survival Advice for the L.A. Kings Bandwagon Fans
My fellow Die-Hards, it’s time you accept a fact. As Detroit has in herds as does Chicago and Pittsburgh, raising the Stanley Cup in Los Angeles will unearth fans who are new to the sport and will seek...
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Bad Penner. Bad, Bad Penner.
ANAHEIM – Looking fit and trim with his salt-and-pepper beard already in playoff form, Scott Niedermayer was right at home on the Anaheim Ice surface with a bunch of familiar faces around him. Even...
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Fuck…
Wife reminded me at the end of this game that I unintentionally broke tradition, one established last season. Before every Kings vs. Ducks, we dined at our favorite restaurant and I always ordered the...
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That Darryl Sutter is a Pretty Smart Hockey Guy
From Rich Hammond John Hoven Jon Rosen: On Justin Williams and veteran forwards: Sometimes, he just has to slow it down a little bit. Simon goes in and out during games. It’s an issue with two or three...
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Not So Fasth, Meatball. Kings Light up Ducks 5-2.
As hard as the zebras tried to give the Ducks an edge in this game, the Kings said no. First, a phantom tripping penalty against Dustin Brown and later a similar garbage call against Dwight King, the...
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PF+PM+S=Forward Formula for Success
What? You think Quisp is the only one who can add? That’s my formula. I have written about it before but not in this way. You know how Lombardi likes to “balance” out each defensive pairing with a stay...
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L.A. Kings Beat Phoenix Coyotes Who Help Beat Themselves 3-2. Morons Do As...
“I scored that?” – Drew Doughty after he scored his 1st of the season. “It was just a collision. I didn’t really see him, and we clipped knees there. That’s all.” – Jake Muzzin on the collision with...
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Bernier’s Stock, Richardson’s Freedom, Sutter’s Wisdom and Scribe’s Musings
The only person that has praised Jonathan Bernier’s skill-set more than me is JT. For those of you who don’t know JT…wait, that can’t be any of you. Back in September of 2010, I did a full write-up on...
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