The Rockford IceHogs of the American Hockey League, an affiliate of the Chicago Blackhawks, today signed Dan Cloutier to a professional tryout agreement. Cloutier is still on the books with the Kings, as $1.033 million of the buyout of his disastrous contract still counts on this season’s salary cap. Cloutier hasn’t played since two seasons [...]

Jonathan Quick has started 25 of the Kings’ 27 games, and he will get the call again tomorrow in Anaheim. Here’s what Terry Murray said today, putting Quick’s recent stretch into some context… MURRAY: “This year, his game has been good. There were times, in games this year, that I think he’d like to have [...]

Or should that be, new “e-quick-ment”? Never mind. Anyway, I got some questions after Jonathan Quick debuted new goalie gear for the game at Edmonton. Quick said it’s a routine swap and that he will typically go through three sets of goalie pads per season. Quick’s new pads are a different look, but he said [...]

Rob Scuderi is once again listed as “questionable” with his still-undisclosed lower-body injury. I pointed out to Terry Murray that after the injury took place, Murray insinuated it was possible that Scuderi would only miss one game. Now he’s at six games, and counting… “Those things just linger, it seems,” Murray said of the still-undisclosed [...]

The Kings’ raw numbers on the power play over the last four games have been pretty brutal. They’re 0 for 13 with the man advantage, while opponents are 3 for 20. That’s a strong kill percentage, but the Kings aren’t drawing many power plays, and they’re not doing much with the ones they get. Here’s [...]

Terry Murray said Rob Scuderi is still questionable with his lower-body injury. You might remember that initial estimates said Scuderi might not miss a game… Scuderi skated today, and Matt Greene returned as well. Ryan Smyth did another pre-practice skate, this time with Mark Hardy, that looked fairly intense. More coming soon, including talk about [...]

You can call him “Steven” or “Bugsy” — and I’m sure he’s heard too much of both — but no matter what you call him, it’s pretty clear that Brandon Segal is having a positive impat in his short stint with the Kings so far. Segal doesn’t have a point in his three games with [...]

Terry Murray said Ryan Smyth was cleared last night to get back on the ice, so that’s why he skated today, a day ahead of schedule. Murray said he would like to see Smyth skate as much as possible but said Smyth wouldn’t be in a full-team practice any time soon. Smyth stayed on the [...]

Ryan Smyth, who had been scheduled to get on the ice Monday, is actually out right now in a yellow practice jersey, doing some light passing drills with Justin Williams.

Andrei Loktionov will have surgery to repair a torn capsule in his shoulder and will be out of action approximately four months, according to Dean Lombardi. It sounded as though Loktionov’s surgery and Thomas Hickey’s surgery will both take place relatively soon.

– Jonathan Quick stopped a season-high 32 shots. Quick had matched his season high two nights earlier (30 saves) two nights earlier against Vancouver. Quick has won three consecutive shootouts (stopping all eight shots against). – Wayne Simmonds now has a career-high three-game goal streak (three goals, one assist in that span). Simmonds has eight [...]

Here’s tonight’s game story, with video and stats. I’ll pull together some notes in the morning, but here’s a quick one. The Kings, after their faceoff woes in Canada, won 34 of 58 draws (59 percent). Here’s the story…thanks for reading! Kings beat Blackhawks 2-1 in shootout

COACH JOEL QUENNEVILLE “I thought it was a real good road trip. We got nine out of 12 points in six tough buildings. At the beginning of it, you would have taken that. I thought the third period today was our best of the game and it put ourselves in a pretty good spot. Every [...]

Drew Doughty’s postgame thoughts… (on the win…) DOUGHTY: “It was definitely important to get that win. We lost the last couple games at home there, and all of us were disappointed in that. We wanted to come back home here and get this win and get a little roll going.” (on Jonathan Quick’s play…) DOUGHTY: [...]

Terry Murray’s postgame thoughts… (on Jonathan Quick’s game…) MURRAY: “He was, I think, just building off the game that he played in Vancouver. He was outstanding up there and he brought it back home here today. He made some big stops. You have to play good against Chicago. They’ve got a lot of firepower, two [...]

Jonathan Quick’s postgame thoughts… (on his game…) QUICK: “The team played great in front of me, blocked shots and cleared out rebounds. We did all the little things today and it paid off in the end.” (on whether that was his best game of the season…) QUICK: “I don’t know. It was a good game. [...]

Shootout results… Kings: Kopitar, GOAL. Chicago: Toews, save. Kings: Johnson, GOAL. Chicago: Kane, save.

The Kings had to scramble to keep the game tied, but they’ll earn at least one point against the Blackhawks, as the game is going to overtime. Shots in regulation were 30-20 Chicago, including 12-6 in the third period.

After a bad, offensive-zone holding the stick penalty on Handzus, the Blackhawks scored just 15 seconds into their power play. Patrick Kane’s shot from the top of the right circle was stopped by Quick, but Jonathan Toews got to the rebound in front and scored 6:56 into the third period.

The Kings got the only goal in another strong period for both teams. The Kings had two power plays but didn’t do much with either, and will be on the power play for the first 1:25 of the third period. Shots were 11-10 Chicago in that period.