I keep thinking about W. P. Kinsella's short-story, "The Last Pennant Before Armageddon." The Cubs are on a historic hot streak, about to win the World Series, and their manager is having a recurring nightmare that the Cubs win it all and then the world blows up. He believes it's a premonition. And he...
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Mirtle lists the 81 players still playing, in line combinations
Eastern Conference (1) New York Rangers Hagelin – Richards – Gaborik Anisimov – Boyle – Callahan Fedotenko – Stepan – Prust Kreider – Mitchell – Rupp McDonagh – Girardi Staal – Del Zotto/Stralman Bickel Lundqvist (Biron) (6) New Jersey Devils Kovalchuk – Zajac – Ponikarovsky Parise – Elias – Clarkson Sykora – Henrique –...
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Suggestion for Kings Media Relations, or Rich Hammond, or the parents of the current Los Angeles Kings
Here is a great idea that I don’t have the ability to do, but which I would really love to see: a photo gallery showing each current Los Angeles King player circa May 1993 (a.k.a. the last time the Kings were in the Conference Finals). Clifford (born 1991) in diapers, Loktionov and Voynov (both...
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JARRET STOLL DOES NOT SHOOT HIGH GLOVE (Post-Series Bullets)
My son had just finished telling me Stoll always shoots high glove. And yet. The boy is 8 years old. It’s his first series win as a Kings’ fan. He jumped up and down for at least 30 seconds. As we all know, 11 years since the last series win. And before that,...
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A different Kings team: 2010 vs. 2012
Yesterday (seems like a month ago) we looked at how the Canucks have changed since the 2010 series against a markedly different Kings team. Here’s how different: RETURNING (9): Matt Greene Rob Scuderi Drew Doughty Anze Kopitar Justin Williams Brad Richardson Dustin Brown Jarret Stoll Jonathan Quick IN (14): Mike Richards Jeff Carter Dustin...
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Game One: Kings 4, Canucks 2
Game one goes to the Kings. That’s an odd feeling. That was one of those games the Kings of old knew how to lose. Who are these guys? By which I mean, a game in which the Kings came out strong, dominated, got stone-walled, got a dumb penalty followed by a quick goal-against. Etc....
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Kings’ glass: half-empty or half full?
Half-empty: Still last in the league in goals-for. Their 16 first period goals is last in the league by a mile. The second worst team has 24. Their 27 third period goals is third worst. Worst is 24. Just got shut-out by the worst team in the league. Simon Gagne appears to be out...
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