Posts Tagged ‘ ex-Kings ’

Red Light District: Top 5 potential suitors for Kovalchuk

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January 13, 2010

The way it looks right now, Ilya Kovalchuk will become the prize acquisition at this year’s trade deadline. With negotiations between Ilya Kovalchuk’s agent Jay Grossman and Thrashers general manager Don Waddell not going in the right direction, few people around the league are optimistic an extension will get done. If they can’t reach...
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Teubert expected to be named Pats’ captain

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January 12, 2010

The first time Colten Teubert pulled on a Regina Pats’ jersey, he was branded as a future captain — a prototypical leader born to wear the C. He’s about to claim that birthright. After running without a captain since the start of the regular season, the Pats are expected to pin the C on...
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Note to players making more than $3 million per year: just because you’re playing the system and it’s all about the team and you’re paying attention to the little things DOESN’T MEAN YOU CAN’T TAKE OVER A GAME AND STEAL A FEW

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January 11, 2010

The nice thing about buying-in to the system is that, in theory, if you take the leap of faith, the system works. And, lo and behold, the system does work. For the most part, the Kings are the best team they’ve been since the beginning of the decade, and for the most part the...
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Kovalchuk Musings with tons of self-serving disclaimers

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January 11, 2010

The first of which is, I don’t really know if I think Kovalchuk fits in the Terry Murray system, and beyond that, I don’t know how much I care. But it’s possible he might not fit and I might care a lot. Don’t know. Second disclaimer: you might think that Kovalchuk at a $6MM...
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Via LGK: Everyone, now is the time to pray real hard for Brayden Schenn – Los Angeles Kings Hockey Fan Forum

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January 11, 2010

I’ve never believed in God, and and I’ve always thought religion in general is a farce, but I’ve also always said that if there was one thing that would every make me turn to Jesus, it’s hockey. I’ve finally been led to the point where I seriously believe it’s time to pray, and I...
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BREAKING: Commenters on other team’s blogs are just as kooky as ours

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January 11, 2010

Commenter GaVaHokie January 11th, 2010 9:55 am: God, I hope the rumors are true that Dean Lombardi is in town along with Jay Grossman… I hope that means they are discussing a sign and trade with the Kings!! That should get us a HUGE return… I’ll speculate that it will get us Dustin Brown,...
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From “McSwarley” Comes This Hilarity:

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January 6, 2010

In an effort help Andrei Loktionov learn English while he his rehabbing, the Kings staff have made a chart of Terry Murray demonstrating various emotions so he speak to the media about the disappointment of getting a shoulder injury in his first NHL game. via mcswarley. Evernote lets you save all the interesting things...
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Who Leads the Kings in GFON/60 (Goals-For While On Ice Per 60 Minutes of Ice-time)?

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January 4, 2010

Parse 3.4 Simmonds 3.36 Smyth 3.33 Kopitar 3.14 Jones 3.02 What about +-/60? Simmonds Stoll SOD Parse Segal Goals/60? Parse 1.02 Stoll 0.95 Kopitar 0.95 Williams 0.95 Frolov 0.92 Simmonds 0.84 Richardson 0.63 And here’s an interesting one. One of the stats behindthenet reports is “zone starts” which describes who is out for face-offs...
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Kings First Semester Grades

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December 31, 2009

Smyth: Transformed Kopitar, exceeded all expectations, then got hurt, and Kopitar turned into last year’s model. A Simmonds: After...
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Purcell is not making Kopitar Suck

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December 30, 2009

If you are reading this you have already read the other Kings blogs and you have seen the irate comments venting all over Ted Purcell. Ted Purcell is lost. Ted Purcell falls down. Ted Purcell is not NHL calibre. Ted Purcell shouldn’t be on the first line. Ted Purcell has naked pictures of Terry...
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