Terry Murray’s postgame thoughts… (on Dustin Brown’s game…) MURRAY: “Brownie had a big night tonight. Very strong, powerful, that power-forward attitude that we like to see. Especially the play with Jack’s goal. My goodness. It takes a very special player to be able to show that kind of composure under pressure and a stressful situation [...]

Postgame thoughts of Drew Doughty, who earned a sizable contract bonus (more than $200,000) with his 10th goal of the season… (on winning in Toronto, close to home…) DOUGHTY: “It was awesome. I was obviously really excited to play here in Toronto. I had lots of friends and family here watching the game. And to [...]

Dustin Brown’s postgame thoughts… (on his game…) BROWN: “Obviously it’s a huge two points for us. We got out of the first. We didn’t play a great period, but it was 1-1. It was one of those things where these two points are bigger than we’ve had at any other point of the year. I [...]

Alexander Frolov’s empty-net goal, with 9.5 seconds remaining, sealed the win for the Kings. More from the locker room ASAP…

With the Leafs’ net empty, and 1:18 remaining in the third period, the Leafs pulled within one goal on Niklas Hagman’s second goal of the game.

Shots are 26-22 Kings. With three assists tonight, Dustin Brown has his first three-point game of the season. Four of the Kings’ six defensemen — Doughty, Johnson, Greene, Scuderi — have points tonight.

The Kings took a two-goal lead with 3:48 left in the second period. Brown again had the pressure in the Toronto end, and Ryan Smyth picked up the puck and scored on a high wrist shot from the middle of the right circle.

A good defensive play led to a Kings goal. Dustin Brown checked Wayne Primeau and forced the puck away in the Toronto zone. Brown skated to the net and found Jarret Stoll for an easy tip-in with 7:23 remaining in the second period.

A defensive-zone turnover by Rob Scuderi led to the puck being on Niklas Hagman’s stick, and a quick 2-on-1 from close range. Hagman kept the puck and scored to the top near corner to tie the game 8:19 into the second period.

The Kings took the lead back 1:53 into the second period. With some good traffic in front, Jack Johnson took a pass from Dustin Brown and scored on a rocket slap shot.

Shots were 12-10 Kings in the first period. The second period could be very important. As bad as the Leafs have been this season, they’re 13-0-2 when leading after two periods. They’re 0-24-5 when trailing after two periods.

The Leafs tied the game with 4:54 left in the first period. Nikolai Kulemin carried the puck up the left side of the Kings’ zone and fired a relatively simple wrist shot. Kulemin was being marked by Peter Harrold, but there didn’t appear to be a deflection and the shot beat Quick cleanly.

Canada’s golden boy isn’t quite as popular as he was two minutes ago. The Kings broke an 0-for-27 skid on the power play, with 8:33 remaining in the first period. Jarret Stoll slid the puck across to Drew Doughty, who scored on a one-time from above the left circle with Dustin Brown running traffic in [...]

It appears as though the NHL.com online feed IS working. My apologies for passing on bad Kings-provided information.

If you need to catch up on today’s news and notes, please check out my LAKings.com Kopitar Heating Up And, to finish up DoughtyFest ’10, here are a couple answers from Terry Murray about Drew Doughty from local reporters, first about Doughty’s humble nature and then about his chances of becoming an all-time great defenseman… [...]

Here’s what Terry Murray said today about the Kings’ power play, which is now 0-for-27 in the last six games, even as the Kings have managed to go 4-2 in that stretch… MURRAY: “We’re not going to change a lot there. We really feel that in the last few games — several games, actually — [...]

Now I’m being told that the online feed WILL be blacked out for those who live in areas that receive FS West. Maybe this would all be easy to understand if the FSN folks would just come out and be honest and explain this whole thing to its viewers, but that probably won’t happen. So [...]

Anze Kopitar is coming off a three-point effort against Detroit, with one goal and two assists, a game that Terry Murray called Kopitar’s best of the season. Kopitar had five three-point games among his first 15 games, but hadn’t had one since a Nov. 2 game at Phoenix. It goes without saying that getting production [...]

Jim Fox was a guest on the “Hockey This Morning” show on XM Radio this morning, talking Kings hockey with Mike Ross. Here’s the link… Jim Fox on XM

Raitis Ivanans will rejoin the Kings’ lineup tonight in place of Teddy Purcell. Jonathan Quick will be in goal — against Jonas Gustafsson — and no other lineup changes are expected.