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Los Angeles Kings Fill 3rd Line Winger Spot: Alexei Ponikarovsky Signed

July 27, 2010 by Gann Matsuda 40 Comments

EL SEGUNDO, CA — On July 27, the Los Angeles Kings signed unrestricted free agent left wing Alexei Ponikarovsky to a one-year contract worth $3 million.

The deal also paid the 30-year-old native of Kiev, Ukraine a $200,000 signing bonus, bring his salary cap hit to $3.2 million for the 2010-11 season.

Last season, Ponikarovsky scored 21 goals and 29 assists for fifty points with 61 penalty minutes in 77 games with the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Toronto Maple Leafs.

The 6-4, 229-pound winger scored 19 goals and tallied 22 assists for 41 points with 44 penalty minutes in 61 regular season games with the Maple Leafs before being dealt to the Penguins on March 2, 2010, in exchange for forward Luca Caputi and defenseman Martin Skoula. Read more of this post

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NHL To Experiment With Rule Restricting Line Combination Changes

April 1, 2010 by Gann Matsuda 12 Comments

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NEW YORK — Although the cry for a rule banning hits to the head was the focus of the recent National Hockey League general manager’s meetings, other rules were proposed that were designed to improve the game and, most notably, the fan experience.

Perhaps the most controversial rule proposed was to restrict the changing of line combinations during the season.

The proposed rule change would limit teams from changing established line combinations, barring injury, to no more than six different line combinations for each of their forward lines and defensive pairings.

Constant changing of line combinations by NHL head coaches has been a frequent complaint by fans across the league for many years. Read more of this post

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Los Angeles Kings Bring In Rental Help For Playoff Push

March 4, 2010 by Gann Matsuda 2 Comments

UPDATED March 8, 2010 with details on the conditional draft pick in the trade for Fredrik Modin.

EL SEGUNDO, CA — The Los Angeles Kings capped what was, perhaps, the most uneventful National Hockey League trade deadline days in recent years by acquiring veteran forwards Jeff Halpern and Fredrik Modin. Read more of this post

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Dustin Brown Leads LA Kings To 5-3 Victory Over Maple Leafs On NHL Video

January 27, 2010 by Gann Matsuda 1 Comment

Dustin Brown contributed three assists to lead the Los Angeles Kings to a 5-3 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs in Toronto on January 26. Read more of this post

Filed under Audio/Video, News, Post-Game Tagged with Alexander Frolov, Drew Doughty, Dustin Brown, hockey, Jack Johnson, Jarret Stoll, LA Kings, Los Angeles Kings, National Hockey League, NHL, Ryan Smyth, Toronto Maple Leafs

Living The Hockey Dream Captures The Magic Of The Game

November 19, 2009 by Gann Matsuda 10 Comments

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MONTEREY PARK, CA — Whether you played the game at any level or are just a spectator, if you truck the kids to hockey practice very early in the morning or just lie on the living room couch and watch games on television, just about everyone touched by the game has a hockey dream or two.

In Living The Hockey Dream, author Brian Kennedy, Ph.D., a native of Montreal, an Associate Professor of English at Pasadena City College and a freelance hockey writer who covers the Los Angeles Kings and Anaheim Ducks for Inside Hockey, explores the hockey dreams—realized or not—of people involved with the game at all levels and all walks of life.

To be sure, this is not a book focusing on National Hockey League superstars and their glory days in the NHL—if that’s what you are looking for, prepare to be disappointed. Read more of this post

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Brown, Johnson, Quick Invited to US Olympic Camp, Other LA Kings News

June 30, 2009 by Gann Matsuda 4 Comments

LOS ANGELES — Here are some news tidbits from the Los Angeles Kings that have been sitting around, gathering dust, while I took a couple of days off from writing after a marathon of a week last week…

Brown, Johnson and Quick Invited To US Olympic Camp

On June 30, USA Hockey announced that 34 players representing 22 National Hockey League teams, have been invited to the U.S. Olympic Men’s Ice Hockey Orientation Camp from August 17-19, at Seven Bridges Ice Arena in Woodridge, Illinois. Read more of this post

Filed under News, NHL, Prospects Tagged with Alyn McCauley, Corey Elkins, Daniel Taylor, Dean Lombardi, Drew Bagnall, Dustin Brown, hockey, Jack Johnson, Joe Piskula, Jonathan Quick, Kevin Westgarth, LA Kings, Los Angeles Kings, Marc Crawford, National Hockey League, NHL, San Jose Sharks, Scott Parse, Teddy Purcell, Toronto Maple Leafs, U.S Olympic Men's Ice Hockey, Vladimir Dravecky

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Los Angeles Kings Fill 3rd Line Winger Spot: Alexei Ponikarovsky Signed

NHL To Experiment With Rule Restricting Line Combination Changes

Los Angeles Kings Bring In Rental Help For Playoff Push

Dustin Brown Leads LA Kings To 5-3 Victory Over Maple Leafs On NHL Video

Living The Hockey Dream Captures The Magic Of The Game

Brown, Johnson, Quick Invited to US Olympic Camp, Other LA Kings News

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