LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Kings are, for all intents and purposes, out of playoff contention. After winning just eight games between November 1 and December 31, the Kings now find themselves deep in the National Hockey League’s Western Conference cellar, fifteen points behind eighth-place Anaheim with forty games left in the regular season.... Continue Reading →
Los Angeles Kings: Do You Believe It?
LOS ANGELES — Whenever Los Angeles Kings Hall-of-Fame play-by-play announcer Bob Miller says, “do you believe it” during a Kings telecast you know something special has happened to the Kings, and when Miller uttered those words on Saturday night (November 10), once again, the unbelievable was unfolding before our eyes. Days later, the Kings are... Continue Reading →
LA Kings: To The Abyss, Or Righting The Ship?
LOS ANGELES — Until they earned a 4-3 shootout win over the Minnesota Wild on October 16, the Los Angeles Kings had been hurtling into the abyss. After littering the ice in each game with horrendous, embarrassing blunders, mostly in the defensive zone, the Kings allowed a whopping 27 goals in six games—4.50 goals per... Continue Reading →
Los Angeles Kings: Pre-Season Opener A Winner
ANAHEIM, CA — Don’t look now, but just four days into their 2007 training camp, the pre-season schedule has already begun for the Los Angeles Kings, and on Thursday night, they eked out a 5-4 win over the Anaheim Ducks in front of an announced crowd of 16,973 fans at Honda Center in Anaheim. Right... Continue Reading →
Los Angeles Kings 2007 Training Camp Days 2 and 3
EL SEGUNDO, CA — The second and third days of the Los Angeles Kings 2007 training camp were highly competitive affairs as players fighting for roster spots in the very short camp were battling it out, both in scrimmages and in drills, trying to make a good impressions on the coaches and scouts in attendance... Continue Reading →
Los Angeles Kings 2007 Camp Underway
EL SEGUNDO — The Los Angeles Kings are starting their 2007 training camp a bit earlier than other National Hockey League teams, with the exception of their neighbors about 35 miles to the south. Why? They start the season with two games against their Stanley Cup Champion neighbors, the Anaheim Ducks, in London, England on... Continue Reading →
Los Angeles Kings 2007 Rookie Camp Report
EL SEGUNDO, CA — If you were anywhere in Southern California over the Labor Day weekend, you sweltered in the blazing heat, as temperatures reached into triple digits in many areas. A heat wave is anything but “hockey weather,” but for the Los Angeles Kings, it was time for their first-year prospects to hit the... Continue Reading →
