Going back to the arrival of Gretzky (1988), the Kings have had fewer than 8 points after ten games only once. In 2009 (the year we finished fifth from last and drafted Brayden Schenn). Since 1988, the Kings had 8 points after ten games five times. They made the playoffs once out of those five.…
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Is Dean Lombardi vindictive? Does it matter?
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Yesterday, both Surly/Scribe and Matt Barry were ruminating on the fate of Jonathan Bernier. S&S serve up a potential destination; Matt reads the tea-leaves. And why not, the Kings suck, and Bernier is, after all, the Kings’ most popular trade rumor star. My initial reaction is that trading Bernier now would make absolutely zero sense for Lombardi…
You’re all a bunch of Jeremy Roenicks
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Well, not all. Just the ones who didn’t play during the lock-out. Played during lock-out: Anze Kopitar, Dustin Brown, Trevor Lewis, Kyle Clifford, Jordan Nolan, Dwight King, Alec Martinez, Slava Voynov, Jake Muzzin, Jonathan Bernier. Didn’t play: Dustin Penner, Justin Williams, Jeff Carter, Simon Gagne, Mike Richards, Jarret Stoll, Colin Fraser, Drew Doughty, Rob Scuderi,…
Why was it stupid to trade Andrei Loktionov? Let’s review
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Yesterday Dean Lombardi traded the most NHL-ready playmaker in the Kings prospect pool to New Jersey for a 5th round draft pick. Ever since Lombardi inexplicably chose not to petition to have Loktionov’s name engraved on the cup (while simultaneously petitioning for Davis 9 games Drewiske and Kevin 25 games Westgarth) we’ve been waiting for…
Kings’ cap situation in 2013-14, compliance buy-outs – pt. 3
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We discussed the Kings’ cap situation and possible buy-out candidates a few weeks ago in this post and this one. To summarize: The cap’s going down to $64.5 million. Voynov, Martinez, Muzzin, Clifford, Lewis, Nolan, Loktionov and Bernier are RFA this summer. I’m nearly 100% sure Martinez, Muzzin, Lewis and Bernier all have arbitration rights.…
Assorted Kings stats I find interesting
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The Kings have spent the second least number of minutes at 5-on-5. They are 30 seconds ahead of the Oilers, who are last. Kings lead the league in avg TOI 5-on-3, with 1.3 minutes per game. (They haven’t scored yet.) Kings are 26th in shots-for per 60 minutes of 5-on-4 ice-time. In other words, they…
COL 3, LAK 1 — Post-Game Bullets (game 2)
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- Once again, the fourth line was best.
- Kyle Clifford, Colin Fraser, Jordan Nolan — all +1.
- Clifford, with a goal in the game and two assists in the opener, leads the team in points.
- Nolan is second in points, with 2.
- Scuderi, Martinez and Greene each have 1 point. Everyone else has 0.
Revisiting the 2013-14 question
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We looked at the possibilities for next season a few weeks ago, before Hickey and Westgarth moved on, and before the cap for 2013-2014 was announced to be $64.3MM. This summer’s UFAs: Penner, Gagne, Scuderi, Drewiske, Richardson. Assuming that Penner and Gagne both leave and Scuderi is re-signed, there will still be the need to…
CHI 5, LAK 2 — Post-Game Bullets (game 1)
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- Fourth line, awesome. Scored both goals.
- Kyle Clifford, Jordan Nolan, Colin Fraser, all +2.
- Clifford, 2 assists, leads Kings in points.
- Third line, fine.
- Jarret Stoll, Dwight King and Trevor Lewis, all even +/-.
- Lewis led the team with 4 shots.
Kings 2013 Season Preview: x = 12 – y – 41*(z-5)/48
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x = 12 – y – (z-5)/2 That was my prediction for the Kings in 2011-12. Where x = conference seed, y = number of 20 goal scorers, z = number of shoot-out wins. Results rounded to the nearest counting number. How did my little predictive formula do? Let’s see. 20 goal scorers: 4 (Kopitar, Brown, Williams,…