A favorite topic among a segment of Kings fans is — no, not Ilya Kovalchuk — the play of Randy Jones. Jones, in his last four games, has not recorded a point and has a minus-4 rating. Terry Murray was asked today, as he frequently is, about Jones’ play and the possibility of getting Davis [...]

The standings would suggest that the battle for fourth place in the Western Conference is over, with the San Jose Sharks sitting seven points head of the Kings with 11 games remaining (the Kings have one game in hand). Although, given the free fall that the Sharks have been in, who knows, right? The Kings, [...]

The Kings-Avalanche mini-series continues tomorrow in Denver, in the back end of a home-and-home set. Terry Murray talked today about what he anticipates being different with tomorrow’s game… MURRAY: “Probably line matchups will be a little bit of a different look, I think. Duchene against Kopi, they might want to get away from that. It’s [...]

Before Monday’s game, Terry Murray talked about the importance of the Kings increasing their shot total and, within that, getting more a “net presence.” Well, the Kings generated four goals, but their shot total actually dipped from the previous game, from 26 to 23. The good news for the Kings is that three of the [...]

Is it too early in his career to start the “Doughty for Norris” campaign? Drew Doughty is only 20, in his second NHL season, but he enters tonight’s games tied for third in the NHL among scoring defensemen, with 53 points in 71 games. Doughty’s plus-17 rating is 14th among defensemen and his average ice [...]

It was an optional skate this morning, basically for last night’s fourth-line players and healthy scratches. Afterward, Terry Murray said he didn’t expect any lineup changes for Wednesday’s game. One area of note…Murray said Jonathan Quick will start both games of the back-to-back set. More from practice to come…

On March 23, 1994, Wayne Gretzky beat Vancouver goalie Kirk McLean for his 802nd career goal, pushing him past Gordie Howe for the all-time record…

Here’s my LAKings.com game story for tonight, with stats and video included. Thanks for reading! Kings beat Avalanche 4-3 in overtime The Kings are scheduled to practice at 11 a.m. in El Segundo tomorrow before flying to Denver.

Terry Murray’s postgame thoughts… (on the win…) MURRAY: I’m pleased with the win. That’s the most important things out of any hockey game, is getting the two points. Better game for us. Better game. I thought we showed some of that mentality that you have to have this time of the year on a pretty [...]

Ryan Smyth’s postgame thoughts… (on the win…) SMYTH: “This is a big two points. They battled hard right until the end, and they capitalized with six seconds left. We capitalized on our power play, which was big tonight. I thought special teams were the difference tonight. “All around, it was a good team win. It’s [...]

Drew Doughty’s postgame thoughts… (on getting two points after giving up the late goal…) DOUGHTY: “Obviously it was pretty disappointing. We can’t be letting those goals in late in the game like that. The last minute of periods are very important, and especially the third period. So getting that win was huge, but a little [...]

Drew Doughty’s power-play goal 3:40 into overtime gave the Kings the win. More from the locker room to come… For those at home right now, and out of the range of 1150-AM, you can catch “Kings Talk” with Nick Nickson and Daryl Evans at the link below… Kings Talk

Colorado sent the game to overtime with a goal with 6.6 seconds remaining in regulation. Mueller made a nice neutral-zone pass to Paul Stastny, who made a move around Rob Scuderi. Quick attempted a poke check, but couldn’t get the puck and T.J. Galiardi knocked it into the net.

Ryan Smyth’s second goal of the game gave the Kings the lead 9:55 into the third period. Justin Williams sent the puck down low, behind the Colorado net, and Smyth beat Anderson with a wraparound shot.

Colorado tied the game 2-2 at the 4:54 mark of the third period. Milan Hejduk’s neutral-zone pass got past Randy Jones and onto the stick of Peter Mueller. A quick 2-on-1 developed, and Mueller kept the puck and beat Quick with a wrist shot from the right side.

The Avalanche will be on the power play for the first 31 seconds of the third period. Shots are 13-12 Avalanche through two periods.

The Kings took a 2-1 lead with 4:19 remaining in the second period. Wayne Simmonds controlled the puck behind the net, then carried it out front. After first looking as though he would go wide with the puck, Simmonds fired a sharp backhand shot and beat Anderson.

Shots were 4-4 in the first period. The Kings scored on their only power play and killed Colorado’s only power play, extending their penalty-kill run to 25-for-25.

After the bad-break goal, the Kings scored less than three minutes later, on the power play, on a nice tic-tac-toe passing play. Anze Kopitar passed wide to Jarret Stoll, who then sent the puck to the front of the net. Ryan Smyth tapped in the pass from close range to beat Craig Anderson at the [...]

The Kings caught a bad break as they fell behind 7:14 into the first period. Colorado’s Chris Stewart held the puck along the left boards, then sent it to the front of the net. The Kings’ Fredrik Modin tried to deflect it away, but instead put the puck directly into the back of his own [...]