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Southern California hockey has always been a study in contrasts.  Recently, the contrast has been one good team (down the 5 Freeway in Anaheim), one bad one (keeping Staples busy between Lakers games).  The future, though, is cloudier.  The Ducks have had a great run of success, but may have only this season to make […]

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Barring some sort of icy miracle, the Kings aren’t going to make the playoffs.  It’s just not going to happen.  But that doesn’t mean there aren’t reasons to watch.  Through the early days of the new season, the Kings have shown signs that the Dean Lombardi Plan, all the way from San Jose, is on […]

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The Kings are 0-2 on the young season, and the prospects for a quick improvement just took a hit.  Jack Johnson, their 21-year old blueline cornerstone-in-the-making, will miss 2-3 months with a shoulder injury suffered in Saturday night’s 1-0 loss to the Sharks.  To help fill the void, the Kings claimed Kyle Quincey off waivers […]

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(Yes, we know the season is two games old, but have you learned so much about the Kings already that you can’t stand to learn some more?  Our Marie Stiles, who broke down the preseason for you, takes on the real games.)
After barely escaping the NHL’s basement last season, this year’s Kings squad has at […]

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Earlier in the week when the Kings and Patrick O’Sullivan agreed on a three year deal, ending his holdout, L.A. put the finishing touches on this year’s roster and helped define the team’s nucleus for the next couple years.  Saturday, they cemented the organization’s identity for most of the next decade, signing 21-year old franchise […]

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With the excitement of the regular season opener in San Jose fast approaching (more on that in another post), it’s worth taking a minute to look at the LA Kings’ recently completed preseason to mine whatever information can be had from the doldrums of fake games. If you’re a wins/losses type, the Kings finished the […]

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Even at full strength, it’s pretty clear this is shaping up to be a rough season for the Kings.   They’ve got problems on the blue line and problems between the pipes.  Where they do have some talent is on the front line, and along those lines they put a big ol’ checkmark in one […]

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Given their results over the last two seasons (or half-decade, for that matter) and the continuing push to jettison older, more experienced players for younger (hopefully) more dynamic talent that has left them with quite a minor league stockpile, a host of talented forwards and massive holes on the blueline and in net, it’s no […]

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Earlier, we posted our conversation with Kings GM Dean Lombardi after Thursday afternoon’s introduction of Terry Murray as next head coach of the Los Angeles Kings. I also had a few moments to speak with Murray himself. Not too much electricity in the conversation, as Murray couldn’t get all that specific about the […]

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Two weeks after the start of Free Agency and the Kings have finally done something worth talking about, resigning four players- Gabe Gauthier, Joe Piskula, Erik Ersberg, and Matt Moulson (left)- trading away veteran blueliner Lubomir Visnovsky, and hiring a coach in Terry Murray.
Looking at the re-inked players, Gauthier is the most irrelevant of the […]

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