News & Views on the Los Angeles Kings and the National Hockey League by Gann Matsuda
March 27, 2008
EL SEGUNDO, CA — On March 27, the Los Angeles Kings recalled goaltender Daniel Taylor from the Manchester Monarchs of the American Hockey League (the Kings’ primary minor league affiliate) under emergency conditions. He will serve as the backup goaltender while Dan Cloutier recovers from a groin strain. Read more of this post
March 19, 2008
LOS ANGELES — In the 1992 movie, A League Of Their Own, about the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League that played during World War II when Major League Baseball was shut down temporarily, there is a scene where Geena Davis, who played Rockford Peaches star catcher Dottie Hinson, leaves the team to return home to Oregon with her husband, who had just returned from duty in Europe.
In that scene, Tom Hanks, who played former Major League star and Peaches manager Jimmy Dugan, tells Davis that she will miss playing for the team. When Davis denies it and tells Hanks that her situation became too hard to deal with, Hanks replied, in part, “…the hard is what makes it great.”
Fast forward to 2008 and that phrase is being applied to the Los Angeles Kings, who dropped a 2-1 decision to the white-hot San Jose Sharks in front of an announced crowd of 16,784 fans at Staples Center on Tuesday night. Read more of this post
March 19, 2008
Greetings from Staples Center where the Los Angeles Kings host the red-hot San Jose Sharks (7:30 PM PDT, televised in the Los Angeles area on FSN West). Read more of this post
March 12, 2008
LOS ANGELES — Prior to Monday night’s game between the Vancouver Canucks and the Los Angeles Kings, news out of the Kings’ practice facility was that goaltender Dan Cloutier would get the start in goal.
Once that news came out, if you listened carefully enough, you could probably hear a collective groan from Kings fans across the region.
Seriously speaking, Cloutier has been anything but good for the Kings since his arrival in Los Angeles last season. In fact, the term “sieve,” would probably be considered too positive a description by some.
But you wouldn’t know it on Monday night, when Cloutier made 38 saves and almost single-handedly kept his team in the game. But in the end, the Canucks escaped Staples Center with a 2-1 overtime victory in front of an announced crowd of 14,653 fans. Read more of this post
March 11, 2008
LOS ANGELES — Greetings from the Bob Miller Press Box at Staples Center, where the Los Angeles Kings host the Vancouver Canucks tonight (7:30 PM PDT, televised in the Los Angeles area on FSN Prime Ticket).
The two teams are not yet on the ice for pre-game warm-ups, but here are some preliminary details… Read more of this post
February 29, 2008 2 Comments
In their last game, the Los Angeles Kings disappeared in the second period and allowed four goals to the Chicago Blackhawks in a game the Kings ended up losing in overtime, 6-5.
On Thursday night, the Kings certainly must have felt some deja vu as they did exactly the same thing, allowing four goals in the second period in a 5-4 loss to the Edmonton Oilers in front of 16,839 fans at Rexall Place in Edmonton. Read more of this post
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