Right. The defenseman “skates the same route” as a forward, only before the forward actually does it? I think that’s called establishing position. The defenseman is occupying the most valuable real estate: the direct path to the puck. The forward is free to skate around the defenseman and his clever “mirroring.”
Dumbass
Memo to 99 Cent Store: if the Kings swept, why would anyone need GAME SEVEN tickets?
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In addition to the obvious embarrassment of running the ads in the first place. It occurs to me, though, that there is no “just kidding” clause in consumer law. Shouldn’t they compound their embarrassment by having to sell us something…
Are the L.A. Kings the worst thing to happen to hockey? – CSMonitor.com
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Maybe if you don’t like hockey anyway, don’t know anything about it, or you’re a reporter who never stayed up to watch games on the West Coast, or if when you say “hockey” you mean “ad revenue and/or network ratings for hockey.” Or you’re Shane Doan.
Phoenix has Psychotic Breakdown, sent to Booby Hatch
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The Yotes have been feeding for so long on the fact that they have been on the verge of bankruptcy, legal troubles, one foot out the door to other cities, playing in empty arenas — using all of that as a rallying cry — that their sense of persecution has become an ingrained and defining part of their collective identity. “Everyone is out to get us” — in its various iterations — has been their team motto, and they’ve used it to their advantage, until now. And their psychotic reaction to actually losing is the flip side of believing their own internal narrative.
Smith on Brown: “If Raffi Torres gets 25 games then he ought to be out forever” | ProHockeyTalk
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Right, because attempting to decapitate a player who doesn’t have the puck is the same thing has a shoulder check to the puck-carrier’s body. Hey, the ref’s almost cost the Kings the game (see Doughty penalties) but they didn’t.
Note to Bernie Miklasz: Your Hysteria is Irresponsible
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Hey, dumbass:
If Pietrangelo plays, he’s not vulnerable, because he doesn’t have and never did have a concussion. We know this because if he did have a concussion and the Blues skirted the protocol to allow him to play when he could be permanently disabled by a second injury — then it would be the Blues (not the Kings) who have no moral compass.
I have a different problem with the mean Kings tweet
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[...] The tweet in question, issued late Wednesday night from the team’s official account after the Kings beat the Vancouver Canucks in the first game of their playoff series, said: “To everyone in Canada outside BC, you’re welcome.” Lombardi said…
From Voice of Valeri: Drew Drewiske is hurt. OH NO!
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The Kings have placed D Drew Drewiske (UBI) on the IR. via Voice of Valeri. Also, “the likes of” Bernier or Johnson are the “expected return price” for Kovalchuk. I know, shocker.
Kukla’s Korner cut/pastes Eklund and it reminds me of Monty Python and leads to the development of Eklund’s Law
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Here’s the Eklund tweet grabbed by KK: It makes so much sense that a few people on here [sic] know more about the truth behind what I write than say the teams and NHL does [sic]. You would think if I…
Gauthier and O’Donnell to Oversee Kings’ Defense, According to People who Don’t Do Their Homework
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One unexpected windfall of successful clubs dealing with salary-cap troubles is that valuable talent is forced elsewhere. Such was the case with the Kings’ newest addition, Rob Scuderi, late of the Cup champion Penguins who was inked to a four-year…