Up front, the Kings will play tonight as they practiced yesterday. Scott Parse, called up yesterday from Manchester, will join Jarret Stoll and Teddy Purcell, while Trevor Lewis will sit out. Here’s what Terry Murray said about putting Parse in the lineup. I’ll have something later on his decision to keep Lewis out… MURRAY: “I’m [...]

Manchester goalie Jonathan Bernier will be out for tonight’s game against Providence. Bernier, who made 40 saves in a shutout of Bridgeport last night, had a precautionary X-ray on a bone in his wrist, according to Kings assistant GM (and Monarchs GM) Ron Hextall. Bernier is schedule for a MRI on Monday but isn’t expected [...]

Jonathan Bernier recorded his second shutout, and improved his record to 5-1 this season, as he made 40 saves in Mancehster’s 2-0 victory over Bridgeport on Friday night. Bernier now has a 1.34 goals-against average and has stopped 208 of 216 shots (.963 save percentage) this season. John Zeiler scored his first goal of the [...]

Here were Terry Murray’s thoughts today about the contract extensions signed by Jonathan Quick and Davis Drewiske… MURRAY: “All of these young players that are getting commitments from the organization are a big part of the foundation of this franchise as we move forward. Quick came in last year and played great hockey for us. [...]

With the Kings’ victory Thursday night, Terry Murray became the 24th coach in NHL history to win 400 games. Murray now has a career record of 400 wins, 318 losses and 111 ties/overtime losses. Murray is also ninth in wins among active NHL coaches. The full list follows… Coaches with 400 or more wins

Here’s what Davis Drewiske had to say today about his new three-year, $1.8-million contract extension. Drewiske has a team-best plus-6 rating, one goal, two assists and 10 penalty minutes in 10 games. DREWISKE: “Yeah, I’m excited. I think it’s a great organization, and it’s going to be a great place to be in the years [...]

Scott Parse is almost certain to make his NHL debut tomorrow night, on a line with Jarret Stoll and Teddy Purcell. It’s been quite a journey for Parse, who was drafted by the Kings in the sixth round in 2004 after his freshman season at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. In his first full pro season, [...]

Here’s what Terry Murray said today about Justin Williams, and the line situations. The Kings’ forwards skated today as follows today… Smyth-Kopitar-Simmonds Parse-Stoll-Purcell Frolov-Handzus-Brown Ivanans/Richardson/Harrold/Lewis Question: Is Williams’ injury still a concern? MURRAY: “No, I’m not concerned about Williams. It’s something that will probably keep him out for another couple of days, but it’s not [...]

Question: It must feel good to get that contract done. Some relief there, or what is the feeling? QUICK: “Yeah. Well, I don’t want to say `relief,’ because when you say relief, it makes it sound like if it didn’t get done, you’d be stressed out about it, but that wasn’t the situation at all. [...]

Here are Terry Murray’s further thoughts about Jonathan Quick, including the disclosure that he planned to have a meeting with Quick today. Shortly, I’ll post Quick’s thoughts, both about his play and his new contract… Question: Do you personally address the goalies a lot, or do you leave most of that to Bill (Ranford)? MURRAY: [...]

News from practice: Jonathan Quick has signed a three-year contract extension worth $1.8 million per year. Davis Drewiske has signed a three-year contract extension worth $600,000 per year. Scott Parse skated with Stoll and Purcell today, and likely will play that way tomorrow. Terry Murray said Justin Williams is out “another couple days” with his [...]

Just got to the rink to see that Scott Parse has been called up from Manchester. More info soon…

It’s an 11 a.m. start to practice today, so I’ll be heading out soon. Until then, a couple stats… As mentioned last night, Anze Kopitar is tied for the league lead in points (16) with Alexander Ovechkin. Ryan Smyth is tied for fourth place, two points back. Kopitar is also second in the league in [...]

– You can check out my game story from tonight, as posted on LAKings.com, here: Kings beat Stars 5-4 in overtime. As always, thanks for reading! – Anze Kopitar recorded the first hat trick of his career and, with 16 points, pulled into a tie with Alexander Ovechkin for the league lead. Last season, Kopitar [...]

A couple quick ones… MARC CRAWFORD: “It’s not very often that game number 10 of the season is a real good game.  We talked to our guys tonight and we could have ended in first place in the [Pacific] division, and that’s what we wanted to do. I was pleased with the way we came [...]

(on his game thoughts…) MURRAY: “When you’re away from the building for a couple weeks, on the road for six games, and you come back, it’s always that game you talk about. We have to make sure we’re arriving ready to do the right stuff, lots of intensity, get the legs going… You say all [...]

(on losing the third-period lead…)( GREENE: “You don’t want to give any team in your division a point. Obviously they were not in the game and we let them back in it. It’s just something that you can learn off. It’s definitely a mistake on our part, letting those guys back in the game. It’s [...]

(on his first career hat trick…) KOPITAR: “It feels great. It almost didn’t feel great, the way the game ended, but we got two points and that’s the most important thing I guess, right now. We have to look forward and maybe forget the last period of this one and just keep going forward.” (on [...]

MURRAY: “The goalie needs to be better. Who’s kidding who here? Everybody sees the puck going into the net, on shots where he’s getting a clear look, he’s going down early. He’s starting to maybe guess a little bit in those situations, and he’s just got to toughen up. He’s got to suck it up [...]

Michal Handzus scored the winner 55 seconds into overtime. The Kings get the extra point and improve to 3-1 at home, and Anze Kopitar is now tied for the league league in points (16) with Alexander Ovechkin. Kopitar, with eight goals, trails only Ovechkin (nine). More from the locker room soon…