EL SEGUNDO, CA — As reported by several media outlets, Los Angeles Kings defenseman Willie Mitchell will not return this season after a second surgery on his ailing knee. Mitchell reportedly went too hard on the knee in his rehabilitation work during the Kings’ abbreviated training camp back in January, re-injuring the knee. Mike Liut,... Continue Reading →
LA Kings Dustin Penner Obliterates All Doubts About His Physical Conditioning
PRE-TRAINING CAMP COVERAGE: Frozen Royalty begins its pre-training camp coverage with stories based on interviews from the Los Angeles Kings HockeyFest ’11 event, held on September 11, 2011. Starting things off is the real story on left wing Dustin Penner and his physical conditioning. For those of you who are still claiming that he is... Continue Reading →
July 1 Was The Time For Dean Lombardi To Gamble
COMMENTARY: Los Angeles Kings President/General Manager Dean Lombardi filled a hole on July 2 with the signing of unrestricted free agent defenseman Rob Scuderi but still has a huge, gaping hole to fill on left wing. Should he have gambled on one of the top free agents on July 1? LOS ANGELES — After day... Continue Reading →
Helene Elliott Calls Out LA Kings Absentee Owner Philip Anschutz
In Thursday’s (April 9, 2009) issue of the Los Angeles Times, sports columnist and hockey writer extraordinaire Helene Elliott called out Los Angeles Kings’ reclusive owner Philip Anschutz in a big, big way. In an open letter to Anschutz entitled, Owner Phil Anschutz Should Take Kings’ Fate Personally, Elliott notes the poor performance of the... Continue Reading →
A Sad Day For Journalism…And For Us All
LOS ANGELES — The Rocky Mountain News (RMN) in Denver, Colorado, ceased operations on Friday, ending a nearly 150-year tradition of covering the news in Denver, throughout Colorado, the nation and the world—their first edition was published on April 23, 1859. The disastrous state of our economy and the increasingly rapid decline of newspapers across... Continue Reading →
Indulge Me For A Few Moments
LOS ANGELES — I hope you will indulge me for a few minutes as I get a bit personal here. Way back in the late 1980’s, well before the Internet was known as the Internet, I wrote my first recap of a Los Angeles Kings game. That was a little over twenty years ago and... Continue Reading →
From The Archives: Staples Center: Who, What And Where, Past, Present And Future
COMMENTARY/ANALYSIS: The following is a portion of an op-ed and analysis piece I wrote back on October 20, 1999, when Staples Center first opened. It was originally published on the Online Kingdom and is being re-published here as a response to what looked an awful lot like a paid infomercial advertising LA Live, the huge... Continue Reading →
Fox Sports West/Prime Ticket Backpedals on Rinkside View
LOS ANGELES — Watch out! If Fox Sports West/Prime Ticket (FSW/PT) executives backpedal any faster, they could run someone over while breaking the world land speed record. Indeed, in response to the tremendous outcry and what appears to be pressure from the Los Angeles Kings and Anaheim Ducks, FSW/PT executives Tom Feuer and Steve Simpson... Continue Reading →
The Real Problems Facing American Newspapers
LOS ANGELES — On February 29, the Daily News announced the layoffs of 22 “...reporters, photographers, editors and library and clerical staff...” in their newsroom, trimming their staff down to one hundred. The layoffs, part of budget cuts that have been talked about for quite some time on LA Observed, are aimed at cutting costs... Continue Reading →
