From the most-reliable Spector, emphases mine: The annual trade deadline is less than two months away but this season, business in the market could pick up earlier than usual due to the league’s mid-February shutdown for the 2010 Winter Olympics. A trade freeze will be implemented from Feb. 13-28, leaving only three days following the…
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Tonight’s Games Suck
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Teams we wanted to lose in bold. Avs/Sabres [Avs won] Isles/Yotes [Yotes half-lost] Ducks/Preds [Preds lost, which is good; but still, cheering for Anaheim is wrong] Hawks/Wild (Hawks losing is also beneficial) [Wild won in OT, points for all, that sucks] Flames/Nucks (either one is fine; but no 3point games, please) [Calgary won, Nucks half-won, whatever,…
Puck Daddy chats with Wayne Simmonds about his upcoming bobblehead, teasing Oscar Moller and life in Los Angeles – Hockey News And Events
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Great interview, I’ll just post the link and grab the pics ’cause they’re, well: Puck Daddy chats with Wayne Simmonds about his upcoming bobblehead, teasing Oscar Moller and life in Los Angeles – Hockey News And Events.
Kings are in the New York Times
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A snippet from the New York Times article (the whole thing is linked below): With Little Fanfare, the Los Angeles Kings Are in the Playoff Chase They entered Thursday night’s game against Detroit with a 25-15-3 record, and their 53 points placed them tied for sixth in the tightly bunched conference. Any questions about their…
The Hockey News agrees with me: “Re-packaging the 1-2 goalie punch”
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From Ryan Dixon: Alternating goalies was a popular practice in the aftermath of expansion in 1967, but has kind of gone the way of the wooden stick during recent decades. These days, teams tend to identify and ride a No. 1 man until a series of softies call his status into question. But the Nashville…
Note to Handzus: DO NOT SHAVE
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Last eight games: four goals, five assists. Last three games: three goals, two assists. Trelane had his mirror. Kings have the Beard of Handzus.
I believe Teddy Purcell will have an NHL career…
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…but, barring inj*** to a roster forward, I would be surprised if he plays another game for the Kings. It’s not really that the Kings are 3-0 since he’s been a healthy scratch. Or that two of those wins were against two of the best teams in the league. Or that team offense has leapt…
From “BarrieAdvance.com”: Kyle Clifford “just keeps getting better”
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On Jan. 2, the Colts opened 2010 on a winning note, picking up three points from Kyle Clifford in a 6-3 win over Peterborough. “Kyle is a player who just strives and strives to get better. When we first drafted him he was mid-range player and since then he has worked so hard to bring…
Quisp’s All-Prospect Kings Roster (cut/paste from HFBoards)
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[using the HF prospect definition...] Parse/Loktionov/Moller Clifford/Schenn/Kozun Wudrick/Elkins/Vey Clune/Nolan/Segal Hickey/Teubert Muzzin/Voynov Deslauriers/Drewiske Bernier Jones via Your Franchise’s Prospect Team – Page 3 – HFBoards.
From the Toronto Sun, via KK: Kings Don’t Suck
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From Lance Hornby of the Toronto Sun, FIRST-HALF FAVES NHL leading scorer Joe Thornton, Jonathan Quick, John Tavares, the Colorado Avalanche, Los Angeles Kings, Ryan Miller, Marian Gaborik, Tomas Plekanec, Steve Sullivan’s comeback, Steve Yzerman’s Hall of Fame induction speech. WHAT HAPPENED TO … The Carolina Hurricanes, Columbus Blue Jackets, St. Louis Blues, Philadelphia Flyers,…