Next season, Drew Doughty will be entering the third and final year of his entry-level contract. If he doesn’t sign an extension before July 1, 2011, he will be a restricted free agent — although the Kings would have the right to match any offer sheet he received from another team — and starting July [...]

One of the rites of spring is for NHL coaches, who worked so diligently during the season — and especially during the playoffs — to guard injury news, to loosen up and talk about what ailments their players had been dealing with. Terry Murray did that today, and in a couple cases, it impacts players [...]

Well, let’s go with the big stuff first, with Terry Murray talking today about the goaltending situation. Did he play Jonathan Quick too much? Is Quick the unquestioned No. 1 goalie coming into training camp? Will Bernier get a chance? It all gets answered here… Question: With some hindsight now, on the goalie situation, what [...]

We just got done chatting with Anze Kopitar, Michal Handzus, Ryan Smyth, Jack Johnson, Brad Richardson, Dustin Brown, Drew Doughty and Terry Murray about this season and their thoughts on the summer and looking ahead to next season. There’s a lot of good stuff to be posted. Some highlights… – Murray said he might have [...]

Here’s the fourth set of questions and answers, as I head out the door for today’s media availability. Check back for updates on that soon!

Here’s the third set of questions and answers. The Kings — players and coach Terry Murray — will be available to the media starting at 1 p.m. today, so I’ll be there for all of that…

Here’s the second set of open forum questions and answers…

We’ll get started with the first set of questions and answers tonight. Thanks for all the good questions so far. Feel free to keep asking…

For those wondering, yes, the blog (and coverage on LAKings.com) will continue to be updated as often as possible over the summer. There’s still plenty to talk about, with the draft and free agency on the horizon and the developmental camp sometime in July as well. I hope to be able to check in with [...]

TSN.ca reports today that Drew Doughty and Wayne Simmonds would like to represent Canada in the IIHF World Championships, which start May 7 in Germany. Doughty, of course, won a gold medal for Canada at this year’s Olympics, and both he and Simmonds won gold medals playing at the World Junior Championships. Canada has already [...]

At the end of a season, it’s always wise to set the table going into the summer, as far as which players are under contract, which players aren’t and how much money is involved. Below, I’ve listed the players under contract for next season, with their salary, plus restricted free agents, unrestricted free agents and [...]

Here’s my LAKings.com game story for tonight, with stats and video included. Thanks — for one last time this season — for reading! Canucks beat Kings 4-2 The season is over, but there’s still plenty to write and discuss. We’ll get into more of that tomorrow, and the Kings will do their “exit interviews” with [...]

Quotes from the Canucks’ locker room… —– RYAN KESLER (on the game…) KESLER: “You have to give it to a lot of guys. Bieksa played great tonight, Danny was clutch as usual and Lou was real clutch, too. He made that big save in the second for us and we never looked back after that.” [...]

Terry Murray’s postgame thoughts… (on whether there’s an easy answer for why the Kings lost third-period leads…) MURRAY: “There’s an easy answer. Two of the best players in the league did it. The Sedin line was tremendous. They won the series, they won the game and, in each one of those games you’re talking about, [...]

Dustin Brown’s postgame thoughts… (on the series…) BROWN: “Sometimes you have to lose before you can win. There’s a lot to learn from this series. We had the momentum, and it can switch just like that. That’s what we can learn from this whole series. It’s a huge learning experience. We lost, but we had [...]

Ryan Smyth’s postgame thoughts… (on the game…) SMYTH: “In the first two periods, I thought we were getting the puck in deep and we were retrieving it well. They battled hard. They chipped away and found a way to get a few breaks. You’re going to make your breaks in this game, and they did [...]

Jonathan Quick’s postgame thoughts… (on the series…) QUICK: “The team played great. They battled hard all series. That’s a very good Canucks team over there. We played well for six games. Obviously it’s not the outcome we wanted, but we’ve got some time to reflect on the season and start getting ready for next year. [...]

Drew Doughty’s postgame thoughts… (on the game…) DOUGHTY: “I felt we played good tonight. We outshot them and I thought we played good all around. Obviously they got that goal late. It was kind of a lucky bounce. We made a nice block and kind of lost the puck and it went right on his [...]

The Kings’ season ends with the Game 6 loss to the Canucks. The Kings outshot the Canucks 32-22 but allowed three third-period goals. More from the locker room to come…

Vancouver took its first lead of the game with 2:03 remaining in the third period. Mikael Samuelsson’s shot from the slot was blocked, but Daniel Sedin picked up the puck and scored on a wrist shot from the left circle. Alex Burrows added an empty-net goal with 1:07 remaining.