Randy Jones, claimed off waivers from Philadelphia today, makes $2.75 million this season, but because the Kings got him off re-entry waivers, they’ll only have to pay half of that salary. Jones is due to be an unrestricted free agent next summer. Jones, 28, had been in the Flyers’ system since 2003, so both Dean [...]

Justin Williams, and his sore lower body, will be out again tonight. Williams skated today with Trevor Lewis and Erik Ersberg for about 20 minutes but Terry Murray said Williams is still not 100 percent. Williams said he felt good and is expected to rejoin full-team practices. More on this, Randy Jones (who will arrive [...]

The Kings have claimed 28-year-old defenseman Randy Jones from Philadelphia and also put Alec Martinez on injured reserve. More info to come…

Video and stats also available at the following link. As always, thanks very much for reading… Sharks beat Kings 2-1 in shootout Also, for those curious about the shootout lineup, it is generally chosen by virtue of those who perform well in shootout drills in practice. Coincidentally enough, the Kings had a shootout drill right [...]

Anze Kopitar’s postgame thoughts… (on his game thoughts…) KOPITAR: “I thought it was a good effort from both teams. Unfortunately we dropped it in the shootout, but I thought the effort was there, and the composure and compete level and energy level was there. It’s just two good teams going at it. It’s too bad [...]

Jonathan Quick’s postgame thoughts… (on the game…) QUICK: “We played a really good first period. They might have been a little tired. They just got back from a six-game road trip. They might not have had their feet underneath them. So I think we got the best of them there in the first period, but [...]

Terry Murray’s postgame thoughts… (on his game thoughts…) MURRAY: “It was a very even game. We played very well in the first period. I thought we held a little bit of an edge in the first. They came back with a strong second and did the same to us as we did in the first. [...]

Shootout results… Sharks win in sixth round of shootout. More from the locker room soon. Sharks: Marleau, off post. Kings: Handzus, wrist-shot goal. Sharks: Boyle, save on backhand shot. Kings: Johnson, poke save. Sharks: Heatley, wrist-shot goal. Kings: Kopitar, save. Sharks: Ferreiro, save. Kings: Simmonds, save. Sharks: Thornton, save. Kings: Brown, save. Sharks: Clowe, backhand [...]

First of the season for the Kings… Sharks are 0-1 this season, with a loss to Phoenix.

After a flurry of activity around the Kings’ net in the final minute, they held on to earn at least a point on the road. This is the Kings’ second overtime game of the season (1-0) and the Sharks’ second (0-0-1).

Entering tonight, the Sharks had outscored their opponents 21-13 in the second period, so the Kings escaped with a draw after being outshot 14-6 in the period. No penalties for either team in the period. Patrick Marleau now has 25 goals and 58 points in 67 career games against the Kings.

Patrick Marleau carried the puck into the Kings’ zone, skated past Matt Greene and ripped a high shot past Jonathan Quick to tie the game with 5:28 left in the second period. Will the Kings go in a shell after a bad goal?

Drew Doughty dumped the puck down low from the left boards to Alexander Frolov, who took on Dan Boyle behind the net and scored on a nice sweeping wraparound exactly eight minutes into the second period. Dustin Brown also got an assist.

The Kings outshot the Sharks 13-5 in the period and did a good job of getting the puck to the net, but the Sharks also had a couple quality chances that easily could have beat Jonathan Quick. Both teams went 0 for 2 on the power play. (per advice, on the RSS/Twitter feeds, I’ll go [...]

The time of the Kings’ Dec. 26 game at Phoenix has been moved back by one hour, to 6 p.m. Pacific time. That probably doesn’t mean much to those of you in Los Angeles, but there’s an interesting backstory as to why the change was made. The game was originally scheduled to start at 6 [...]

This relates, a bit, to yesterday’s discussion about what will happen to the lines when Justin Williams returns. Today, Terry Murray talked about the recently constructed line of Dustin Brown, Alexander Frolov and Michal Handzus. He expressed satisfaction with it, which leads back to the question of what to do with the Stoll line when [...]

Jonathan Quick will be back in goal tonight for the Kings…and tomorrow night against Vancouver…and every other night until Terry Murray decides he wants another look. Quick hasn’t had trouble with a heavy workload in the past, but I wanted to get his opinion on it, and also how he deals with it in a [...]

Here’s the feature I wrote on Anze Kopitar for LAKings.com. Thanks for reading! Kopitar’s Big Summer Leads to Big Fall Also, in those process of doing this story, I got an enormous volume of quotes from Dean Lombardi about Kopitar. I thought it would be good to transcribe them and share them, because they give [...]

Here’s what Sharks coach Todd McLellan said about the Kings this morning.. MCLELLAN: “They’re very impressive. They’re obviously playing with a tremendous amount of confidence. When they got to the start line this year, they felt good about themselves. Kopitar, Ryan Smyth (is) as good a pair as there is in the league right now. [...]

Rob Scuderi said he got in touch with Columbus’ Jason Chimera and apologized for his hit. Scuderi said the phone call went well…