Jack Johnson, as quoted on the Twitter account of The Sporting News’ Craig Custance after the United States’ loss to Canada: “You win a gold. You win a bronze. You lose a silver.”

With Canada’s 3-2 overtime victory over the United States, Drew Doughty became the first player to win Olympic gold while representing the Kings. Adam Deadmarsh and Aaron Miller won silver playing for the United States in 2002, and four Kings have won bronze medals. Congrats also to the Kings’ silver medalists, Dustin Brown, Jack Johnson [...]

LA KIngs – Rich Hammond Live Olympic Gold Q&A

Everyone getting ready for USA-Canada? Check back soon, and we’ll do a live chat here during the game. Practice is ongoing now in El Segundo, with 4-on-4 drills. Dustin Brown, Michal Handzus and Jonathan Quick will be back in L.A. tonight and will fly to Dallas with the team tomorrow. Drew Doughty and Jack Johnson [...]

The bronze medals in men’s hockey will be awarded tonight when Slovakia plays Finland. If Slovakia (with Michal Handzus) wins, it will mean that all five Kings in the tournament will win a medal. That won’t be the most for a single NHL team though. Chicago has six players still going: Tomas Kopecky and Marian [...]

One more semifinal to go. Who will win, Canada’s Drew Doughty or Slovakia’s Michal Handzus? Either way, it’s setting up nicely for the Kings’ players. If the Canada-Slovakia loser beats Finland in tomorrow’s bronze-medal game, all five Kings will win a medal. Feel free to discuss the developments of tonight’s game here! (And congrats to [...]

The Kings have made it through three days of practice, and three remain. Tomorrow, there isn’t an on-ice practice, but the team will workout in El Segundo before branching out for the rink tour. After that, it’s practice Sunday and Monday before Tuesday’s game at Dallas. The practices have been increasingly intense, with two sessions [...]

For those who were planning on going to the Kings’ rink tour tomorrow, there have been a couple changes on the player assignments. Here’s the updated list… Aliso Viejo Ice Palace – 9 Journey, 949-643-9648 (Davis Drewiske, Anze Kopitar, Ryan Smyth) Iceoplex Simi Valley – 131 West Easy Street, 805-520-7465 (Marc-Andre Cliche, Alexander Frolov, Erik [...]

It’s almost time for the USA vs. Finland Olympic hockey semifinal? Who will win? Feel free to discuss here, and also head over to www.hockeywoodla.com/kingschat for a live chat with Jim Fox. Practice is ongoing in El Segundo, with a scrimmage at the moment. Justin Williams was on the ice with teammates for the start [...]

The medals are in sight at the Olympic men’s hockey tournament. The United States (with Dustin Brown, Jack Johnson and Jonathan Quick) plays Finland at noon Pacific time — and yes, it’s actually televised live — and Canada (with Drew Doughty) plays Slovakia (with Michal Handzus) at 6:30 p.m. The losers meet Saturday at 7 [...]

The Kings will conduct their sixth-annual rink tour on Saturday afternoon, at six locations throughout Southern California. Groups of players, coaches and broadcasters will travel to the rinks to conduct on-ice clinics with youth hockey players and take part in autograph sessions. The event is free and runs from 2:30-4 p.m. at each of the [...]

Justin Williams’ recovery from his broken ankle is going to be hard to judge on a day-to-day basis, but it’s safe to say that everyone in the Kings organization is enthused about the progress that Williams has made in the past two months, and today, Terry Murray expressed great optimism that Williams will be able [...]

Following up on the Cliche/Moller post, it seems to me that the Kings are trying to give themselves as many roster options as possible, particularly in terms of the “bottom six” forwards, going into the stretch run. Terry Murray has been consistent in his belief that the Kings need an “enforcer” such as Raitis Ivanans [...]

Based on conversations with Dean Lombardi and Terry Murray, it seems as though Marc-Andre Cliche is basically being given a week-long tryout at practice, to see if he can earn a roster spot with the Kings. Based on the answers below, it seems like what Murray would like to do is have Cliche as his [...]

Click below to watch the video chat I did this morning with Dustin Brown from Vancouver, in which Brown talks about the rivalry with Canada, playing left wing, Team USA leadership and other aspects of his Olympic experience. Also, the Kings Care Foundation is auctioning autographed Olympic jerseys of the five Kings players. You can [...]

Many of you have already seen it, but there’s a new mobile site for the blog, which should make it significantly easier to view on mobile devices. Any other suggestions for improving the blog are always welcomed. It’s a split practice for the Kings this morning. They skated for 50 minutes, left the ice for [...]

The Olympic men’s hockey semifinals are set for Friday, with the United States to face Finland and Canada to face Slovakia, with the winning teams meeting on Sunday for the gold. For the Kings’ Olympians, it means at least two of them will win medals. It’s possible that all five Kings will win medals, if [...]

The Kings’ first post-break practice, this morning, went one hour and included a lot of skating, passing and shooting but very little “battle.” That’s by design. The worst thing that could happen is for a player to strain a groin or hamstring while gearing up to get ready for NHL play again. Here are Terry [...]

Terry Murray spent part of the Olympic break at his home in Maine and got to spend time with his wife and daughters, an in-season rarity for anyone involved with the NHL. Before the break, Murray had said he wouldn’t go out of his way to watch the Olympic hockey games, but today Murray said [...]

Marc-Andre Cliche was called up by the Kings from Manchester today — along with Rich Clune — and if Cliche stays around and plays Tuesday in Dallas, he would be making his NHL debut. Cliche, 22, has 10 goals and 11 assists in 50 games with the Monarchs this season and is known as a [...]