Posts Tagged ‘ Anze Kopitar ’

The Battle of Alberta: Trade Phaneuf

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November 20, 2009

The Battle of Alberta: Trade Phaneuf. The link is to The Battle of Alberta blog. The short version: Calgary needs an elite forward and has Phaneuf to spare now that they have “Jay-Bo.” So… Frolov for Phaneuf? Or is the reasonable version of that Frolov and Johnson for Phaneuf? Or Frolov and Hickey. Or...
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Self-Serving Moulson Premonition

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November 16, 2009

Matt Moulson is now being cited as one of the 10 biggest stories of the year in the NHL. Who could have predicted that? September 24, 2008 6:01 PM Quisp said: Purcell’s dominating season in the AHL puts him a notch above Moulson for now, but it’s clearly possible for either one of them...
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Cut/Paste in its entirety: RudyKelly on today’s game sort of

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November 13, 2009

    WOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! Man am I pumped for this game.  I’m a Kings man tried and true but I sure do love those Atlanta Thrashers.  There’s Ilya, of course, who is without a doubt my favorite non-Kings related hockey player in the league.  I don’t watch Ilya Kovalchuk enough to know if he’s...
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Scoring Benchmarks After Game 19

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November 12, 2009

Before the season started, I offered up the hypothesis that, if the Kings were to make the playoffs, they needed to increase their scoring to 246 goals and decrease their goals against to 230. Subsequently, I offered up a template for how I thought the Kings could get to the 250 goal mark. (I...
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Rob Scuderi, Kings have royal opportunity against Penguins – Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

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November 4, 2009

Rob Scuderi knows what his upstart Los Angeles Kings can gain tonight against the Penguins at Staples Center. “Every team in the NHL is trying to be the Penguins; ultimately, you look at them and see what you can become,” the Kings’ defenseman said Wednesday of a showdown between his club – third in...
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Scenes from the Father-Son Dinner – Battle of California

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November 4, 2009

Genius: Tim Stoll (Jarret’s Dad): So, Raitis, I’m sorry to hear your dad couldn’t end up making it, but I thought he was going to. Raitis Ivanans: Well, I guess he ran into a little problem at Customs and couldn’t get into the country. Tim Stoll: Really? What happened? Does he have a record...
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Best Trade The Kings Have Made Since Gretzky | Bleacher Report

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November 3, 2009

I really don’t know how to describe what I’ve seen this year other then to say, wow. I can’t recall a Kings team having this combination of grit and skill. They are fun to watch at both ends of the ice. An interesting story line about the game and the LA broadcast was...
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Guess Who Leads the Kings in ASSTS/60 and POINTS/60…

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October 30, 2009

Scott Parse, that’s who. 3.89 points per 60 minutes of ice time. Kopitar is at 3.00. I know, I know, he’s only four games into his NHL career. (None of which is a loss, by the way.) Evernote lets you save all the interesting things you see online into a single place. Access all...
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Exclusive: Kings Hits Per Sixty Minutes of Icetime

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October 27, 2009

m/h h/60 Brown 3.2 19 Moller 3.9 15 Ivanans 5 12 Lewis 5.5 11 Greene 5.8 10 Richardson 7.4 8 Parse 7.7 8 Johnson 8.3 7 Harrold 9.6 6 Williams 10.2 6 Kopitar 13 5 Doughty 13 5 Drewiske 13.3 5 Purcell 13.4 4 Simmonds 13.8 4 Frolov 13.8 4 Handzus 15.6 4 O’Donnell...
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Kings forwards, QUALCOMP and plus/minus numbers

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October 27, 2009

QUALCOMP – Kings Forwards (who faces the toughest opponents): Parse Kopitar Smyth Richardson Brown Purcell Ivanans Stoll Williams Simmonds Frolov Handzus Lewis Moller Notice that the Handzus line is still facing the weakest competition, counter-intuitive if you believe they are really our checking line (I don’t). Toughest assignments are going to the #1 unit....
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