News & Views on the Los Angeles Kings and the National Hockey League by Gann Matsuda
December 18, 2009
Dion Phaneuf and Nigel Dawes scored goals while Miikka Kiprusoff stopped 34 shots to lead the Calgary Flames to a hard-fought 2-1 victory over the injury-decimated Los Angeles Kings on Thursday night in Calgary. Read more of this post
December 8, 2009
LOS ANGELES — Scott Parse and Jarret Stoll scored goals, but Jonathan Quick was the big star for the Los Angeles Kings, who squeaked past the Calgary Flames, 2-1, in front of an announced crowd of 13,853 fans at Staples Center on Monday night.
Parse opened the scoring at 8:54 of the first period on a nifty move in front of Calgary netminder Miikka Kiprusoff.
Flames forward Curtis Glencross answered at 15:39, beating Quick with a backhand from the low slot. Read more of this post
February 16, 2009
LOS ANGELES — After a 4-1-1 road trip and a 7-1-1 record in their previous nine games, the Los Angeles Kings returned to the comforts of home and apparently, life at home is good…
Too good.
Indeed, perhaps all the home cooking and sleeping in their own beds made the Kings a little too comfortable because since returning to Southern California, they have been shutout by the Calgary Flames on February 12, 2-0, and then the Edmonton Oilers handed the Kings a 3-2 shootout loss on February 14.
In both games, the Kings started slow, but wound up outplaying the Flames and Oilers for the vast majority of their respective games, but something was missing from the Kings’ effort in each game that proved costly in the end.< Read more of this post
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