It is an LA Kings tradition that, following a loss, we snuggle up with Helene Elliott’s prickly verdict. The recipe for these articles is usually: start with a stylized but snarky opening condemnation, then alternate actual quotes from the judged with your own grumpy asides. Top it off with a curtly dismissive headline, indicating...
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“Kings aren’t good enough, don’t deserve bounces” — Guess who?
Five for Fighting postpones mid-life crisis for Kings potential cup run
"Back in the late '90s, the record label came to me and said: 'You know, John, nobody can pronounce Ondrasik, the days of the male singer/songwriter are over, you need a band name.'" Ondrasik recalled. "I had just come from a Kings game and Marty McSorley and the late, great Bob Probert had done...
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STOP BLOCKING MY SHOTS!! (You’re bad for hockey)
Whether it's the ghost of Craig Ludwig's shin-pads, or plain old teamwork (yawn -- am I supposed to put "TEAMWORK" on the back of my replica jersey?), the goal is to stop you from doing what you want to do. It's called defense.
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Does Dwight King deserve a suspension for boarding Pietrangelo?
As I'm writing this, I'm watching the live #LAKings Twitter feed scroll by on the right margin of this site, and with each passing tweet the over-blown outrageous blood-lust of Blues fans is pissing me off more and more. "Let's take out Brown. **** it." "All the good the league did by suspending Torres...
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From the vault: Ken Hitchcock, Crime-Fighter
Hitchcock, who vacations in Kelowna, was sitting in a parked car and sprung to action when he saw the struggle. Hitchcock pinned the shoplifter against a window. The motorcyclist grabbed the teen's arm, but he broke away. Hitchcock straight-armed him against the window as he struggled.
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Gillis reveals teams “showcase” players for trades
Over the last few years, I have witnessed several bloggy debates about whether teams really showcase players in an attempt to spark a trade. When a player’s ice time suddenly increases, there’s usually someone out there who will shout “showcase!”, and this is sometimes met with snarky dismissiveness by team representatives and/or journalists. If...
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Tom Benjamin’s post-mortem on his own Vancouver Canucks
Vigneault deserves points for putting in Schneider. I thought it was weird at the time, but it turned out to be a stroke of genius that could easily have won the series for them. Had the Canucks won game 5 in OT, the odds of the series going seven games would have been pretty...
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Series Preview: Blues’ superiority is unprecedented in human history
Ken Hitchcock would have you believe that the Kings are the favorites in their upcoming series with his St. Louis Blues. Hitchcock suggests that knocking off the number one team makes you the number one team. He wants to transfer the entire weight of suddenly inflated expectations to the massively-overmatched and humble Los Angeles...
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