Since the Olympic break, the Kings’ power play has scored at a 32.6-percent clip, the best percentage in the NHL. For the season, the Kings rank sixth in the league at 21 percent. So, in general, the power play has been a strong point, but it was a definite weak point in the last two [...]

In the past five days, the Kings’ magic number for making the playoffs has fallen from 12 to 8, but that’s because Calgary lost twice, not because the Kings won. Had the Kings won their last two games, the magic number right now would be 4. The Kings could actually move into fifth place in [...]

Before Saturday’s game, Terry Murray talked about his reunion of the Kopitar-Smyth-Williams line and his desire to see his top players on a line together for the rest of the season. It lasted all of one game, and now Jeff Halpern gets a chance to show what he can do. In yesterday’s interview, Dean Lombardi [...]

Jonathan Bernier flew in from Manchester on Monday to join the Kings, and will start tomorrow’s game against Nashville. In an ideal world, the Kings might simply have had Bernier meet the team in Nashville, and save him some miles and sleep, but Terry Murray said Bernier will have to serve as the Kings’ backup [...]

Matt Greene will return to the Kings’ lineup tonight after missing three games with a still-undisclosed upper-body injury. He will replace Randy Jones, who is considered day-to-day with an elbow injury. Here’s what Greene said about his return, followed by Terry Murray’s explanation of Jones’ injury… GREENE: “The trainers did a good job, and I’m [...]

Jonathan Quick will start in goal tonight and Jonathan Bernier, called up under emergency circumstances will back up Quick and will start tomorrow in Nashville. Terry Murray said Erik Ersberg has a strained back. The forwards are expected to skate as follows tonight… Smyth-Kopitar-Halpern Frolov-Stoll-Brown Modin-Handzus-Williams Parse-Richardson-Simmonds On defense, Matt Greene replaces Randy Jones, who [...]

Matt Greene will return to the Kings’ lineup tonight, likely in place of Randy Jones. It also appears that Scott Parse will be in, in place of Rich Clune, but we’re still waiting to talk to Terry Murray for confirmation. Jonathan Bernier was scheduled to arrive here at noon, so he wasn’t on the ice. [...]

Shortly, the Kings will announce that goalie Jonathan Bernier has been called up from Manchester of the AHL. Bernier is expected to be with the Kings in St. Paul today and, a bit later, I’ll have more information on exactly what Bernier’s role with the team is expected to be. Since he was with the [...]

When the traveling part got settled in St. Paul this afternoon, I was able to catch up with Dean Lombardi for a few minutes to get his thoughts on where the Kings are in the final few weeks of the season… —– Question: Last night, Dustin Brown was pretty emotional and straightforward in saying that [...]

As mentioned last night, the Kings did not practice today, since they face a long flight to St. Paul and a game tomorrow. Matt Greene is expected to travel with the team, but his status for either game (the Kings also play Tuesday at Nashville) is still unknown.

The Kings have 90 points, with eight games remaining (road against Minnesota, Nashville, Anaheim and Colorado, home against Vancouver, Anaheim, Edmonton and Phoenix). An 8-0 finish would give them a maximum of 106 points. Looking at the rest of the schedule, how do you think they will end up? How many points will the Kings [...]

Here’s my LAKings.com game story, on an interesting night, complete with stats and video. Thanks for reading! Stars beat Kings 4-1 The Kings will not practice tomorrow, and have a late-morning flight to Minnesota.

Terry Murray’s postgame thoughts… (on Brown’s comments about the need for more urgency from everyone…) MURRAY: “I’ll have to have a talk with him and ask him how the pecking order goes here. I don’t know how to answer that. I don’t have an answer. You’ll have to go talk to him some more. Did [...]

Dustin Brown’s postgame thoughts… (on the game…) BROWN: “We didn’t have any enthusiasm, any energy. It’s disappointing, coming off a day off and the situation we’re in. Quite frankly, it’s just a lot of (b.s.). I think we need to take a look in the mirror, as individuals and as a team. We can’t be [...]

Rob Scuderi’s postgame thoughts… (on the game…) SCUDERI: “I thought that we were flat, even to start the game. We had all those power plays in a row, and we did get one (goal), but I thought that maybe we had lost some momentum on a couple of them. Then to start to the second [...]

The Kings went 3-for-7 on the penalty kill and 1-for-7 on the power play as they fell to 2-4-1 in their last seven games and into seventh place in the Western Conference, one point ahead of eighth-place Colorado. More from the locker room to come…

As they did in the second period, the Stars scored a power-play goal early in the third. James Neal shot, and Steve Ott scored on a rebound from close range to give Dallas a 4-1 lead 48 seconds into the third period. The Stars are 4-for-6 on the power play tonight.

Shots were 10-9 Kings in the second period but goals were 3-0 Dallas. In other games tonight, Detroit beat Nashville in a shootout and Phoenix beat Colorado. If the Kings earn two points tonight, they will be in fifth place. If they earn one point, they’ll be in sixth place. If they earn zero points, [...]

The Stars scored their third goal of the first 9:15 of the second period, all on the power play, to take a 3-1 lead. Richards took a pass from Robidas and scored on a slap shot from the high slot for his second goal of the game.

Dallas took the lead with another power-play goal, 4:20 into the second period. Brad Richards shot from the middle of the left circle and Kings defenseman Rob Scuderi, defending the front of the net, had the hard shot deflect off his leg and into the Kings’ net.