Posts Tagged ‘ Rich Hammond ’

First Rich Hammond, now RudyKelly — Kings bloggers dropping like flies

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December 20, 2012

I’m glad the Kings won the cup, but I had no idea the price we would pay. Whenever NHL hockey comes back, the Kings hive mind will be dumber and less funny. Evernote lets you save all the interesting things you see online into a single place. Access all those saved pages from your...
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Found: my first comments

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October 12, 2012

I’ve been strolling down memory lane, in the form of the archives of Rich Hammond’s first Kings blog, Inside the Kings. I believe I found my first three comments on the blog, which are interesting (if only to me) because of how naively optimistic I was about the 2007-08 season, and because of how...
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Six years ago: Rich Hammond’s first post on the new Kings blog

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October 12, 2012

October 27, 2006, six years ago this month. The LA Daily News unveils its blog devoted to the Los Angeles Kings, to be written by reporter Rich Hammond. Dean Lombardi had been GM for all of five months. Jonathan Bernier and Trevor Lewis had been selected in the first round of June’s draft. Pavol...
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Kings Waive Nobody Today

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September 13, 2012

Per Rich Hammond (yesterday), the Kings had yet to decide if they were going to put any of their prospects on waivers in order to assign them to Manchester before the Lock-Out deadline. The NHL and NHLPA had made a special agreement that teams could put players on waivers this week (normally, the waiver...
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Darryl Sutter’s Assistant Coach Checklist

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July 18, 2012

  • Former head coach
  • From the Western Conference
  • Young (at least, not over-the-hill)
  • Really hands-on
  • Good communicator
  • Better coach than me
  • Someone I want to spend 18 hours a day with, for 10 months

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Why I prefer to just say no to Doan

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July 10, 2012

Going into next season with the roster intact (which, by the way, is some kind of miracle) is a silver lining inside a cloud no-one is talking about yet. The conventional wisdom is that a huge contributing factor to Stanley Cup hangover is the fact that the team has just played 100+ games compared to...
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Stupid Media Narratives, Ctd.

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June 7, 2012

My favorite part of all of this is how the talking heads (no, not those Talking Heads) whip themselves up in a frenzy with their own made-up narratives ("destiny" "inevitability" "unbeatable" "historic"), and then wheel around and mock their own made-up story like it betrayed them. They set their little plot in motion, and then...
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What explains the Kings’ turnaround?

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June 5, 2012

Derek Zona of www.coppernblue.com tweeted last night that he didn’t know who was responsible for the Kings’ recent success. His candidates were Darryl Sutter, Jeff Carter, Jack Johnson and variance. Variance, I imagine, is another way of saying, “just because this is happening doesn’t mean it’s likely ever to happen again.” Or, “if you...
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Oh, Marty. Give me a break.

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May 27, 2012

“Disappointment” is an odd choice of words. I’m sure Marty McSorley is disappointed that, essentially, everyone blames him for losing the 1993 finals. Of course, no one blames him really, or at least not 100%. We all know the laundry list of blame: the Kings could have killed the penalty, they could have scored...
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Tippett: we’re getting our asses kicked because the game is dishonest and that’s sad really

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May 17, 2012

The whole game -- in fact, every game where the rules are enforced by referees -- is playing on the edge, on the border between legal and not. And the refs have to make a zillion judgment calls every game. Otherwise, you wouldn't need refs.


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