The Monarchs play Game 1 of the AHL Eastern Conference finals against Hershey today at 4 p.m. The game isn’t televised, but you can listen online by clicking the link below…
To catch up on the latest Monarchs news — including injuries to Marc-Andre Cliche and Kevin Westgarth — you can read a game preview by clicking here.
Highest scoring offense, say hello to the least number of goals allowed. Something’s gotta give!
These teams split 2 games during the regular season, both wins coming on the road. They scored 5 total goals against and the Monarchs scored 3. Moller got 2 of them…
It’s shaping up to be a helluva series!
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1-0 hershey
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BakoCAkingsCondorsGuy Reply:
May 12th, 2010 at 4:23 pm
2-0 Hershey… PP goal.
They have 8 shots already…
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does anybody know where all the bloggers on this site are gonna be inside Staples on Friday, and Saturday for the Draft ? If there is going to be a designated place where everyone is gonna be then count me in ! I am getting a Hotel on the Figuerora Corridor and I wanna be around all the Action that weekend of June 25th, and 26. Also the Yankees are in town that weekend to play the Dodgers..That area is gonna be freakin rockin !
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Clifford just punched out a Bear with one punch–end of period fisticuffs!
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I must admit I didn’t think this was possible:
mtl 2-0 PGH/1st period, game 7
+4:30 left
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wavesinair Reply:
May 12th, 2010 at 4:46 pm
@BakoCAkingsCondorsGuy, In all honesty, I don’t think Montreal thought it was possible. I’ll never, ever root for the Canadiens, BUT I do love an 8th seed making a run. David and Goliath. Pretty cool.
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BakoCAkingsCondorsGuy Reply:
May 12th, 2010 at 5:10 pm
Waves–
If Montreal beats Pittsburgh, they have a clear shot to the Cup Finals. Don’t care who wins between BOS and PHI… Montreal will beat them!
Now it’s 3-0 Hershey and 3-0 Montreal!!!!!
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Steve McQueen Reply:
May 12th, 2010 at 5:11 pm
@BakoCAkingsCondorsGuy,
4-0 now!
Tom in Colorado Reply:
May 12th, 2010 at 5:09 pm
@BakoCAkingsCondorsGuy, 3-0 Habs. While I won’t cheer for the Habs, either, the thought of a Bruins-Canadiens conference finals is getting me pretty geeked.
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Tom in Colorado Reply:
May 12th, 2010 at 5:12 pm
@BakoCAkingsCondorsGuy, 4-0. Stick a fork in the Pens.
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wavesinair Reply:
May 12th, 2010 at 5:21 pm
@Tom in Colorado, still too much time to count them out. many stranger things have happened…
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hockeyjockey Reply:
May 12th, 2010 at 6:31 pm
@BakoCAkingsCondorsGuy,
wondering..is there any place… anyone.. to hear
these games online?..or radio..
I am in L.A. working.. did not buy full Dish this year..no need and can’t see games live as working.
but just got home and would like to be able to at
least hear end of game.. esp a 7th agains the
defending Stanley Cup Champs@
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Just like PITT/MTL game…it 3-0 Hersey in the second.
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Someone asked about the Kings Prospect Jordan Nolan (son of Coach Ted Nolan) he spent 2009-10 season with the Soo Greyhounds of the OHL Juniors. He played well with almost a assist per game and almost a goal every other game for 1.42 pts per game over 59 games. He will likely get a chance at Manchester-AHL or Ontario-ECHL, but it depends on how many prospects get traded or promoted to the Kings.
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luc20rules Reply:
May 13th, 2010 at 8:42 pm
@luc20rules, Correction, I was going off memory and just couldn’t find the guys post to reply.
Jordan Nolan – Soo Greyhounds OHL 2009-10 Season
49 GP, 23 G, 25 A, 48 PTS, -5(+/-), 88 PM
so it was almost a point per game. What might also get him the promotion to ECHL or AHL is the fact that he is an enforcer.
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The thing about Pittsburgh losing is that the NHL Hockey hierarchy is disturbed, especially in the east…
Now it’s 4-0, Les Habitans!!!!!!!!!
–UNFRIGGIN BELIEVABLE!–
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BakoCAkingsCondorsGuy Reply:
May 12th, 2010 at 5:20 pm
A little sanity:
mtl 4-1 PGH/2nd period, with 11:00 minutes to play…
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wavesinair Reply:
May 12th, 2010 at 5:25 pm
@BakoCAkingsCondorsGuy,
What time is it in Montreal?
Halak O’clock.
(time for some bad jokes)
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BakoCAkingsCondorsGuy Reply:
May 12th, 2010 at 5:30 pm
@wavesinair,
We all are just TOO BORED.
How long is it until Draft Day in L.A.?
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BakoCAkingsCondorsGuy Reply:
May 12th, 2010 at 5:34 pm
Okay…
mtl 4-2 PGH/2nd period, with 3:30 to play
Game ain’t over until it’s over…
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And, for those still following the Monarchs:
mch 0-3 HER/2nd intermission
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It’s official. Michael Cammalleri’s departure is Dean Lombardi’s biggest misstep as the GM of the Kings. Twelve goals in two playoff rounds.
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BakoCAkingsCondorsGuy Reply:
May 12th, 2010 at 5:46 pm
@KingMe20,
Two points.
1): Cammy had a plan, and it did not include the Kings (or the Flames, for that matter). The plan was to get MAXIMUM COIN. No matter what, the Kings would not have given him what he wanted. Cammy had to go elsewhere and prove his true worth. To his credit, he did.
2): Cammy–I believe–wanted to play for the Canadiens FROM THE BEGINNING To his credit, he achieved his goal.
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Brian Reply:
May 12th, 2010 at 5:46 pm
@KingMe20, Why is that? He was a free agent after last season. It was well documented that Cammy wanted to be take advantage of free agency and go to a Canadian team. You may as well say that Cammy was every other teams’ bigest mistep because they all missed out on him too. Lombardi only missed out on Cammy last year, which didn’t make a difference.
If you asked me, I wouldn’t want Cammy on the Kings for $6million/year for 6 years. He’s a good player but not worth that price. Right player, wrong price . . .
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wavesinair Reply:
May 12th, 2010 at 5:55 pm
@KingMe20, I don’t understand fans who want players who DO NOT WANT to be on their team. Cammy wanted out. Period.
I only want players on my Kings who want to be here. Otherwise, take a hike. Don’t care how good you are.
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KingMe20 Reply:
May 12th, 2010 at 6:15 pm
@wavesinair,
I’m sure the money had something to do with it, but I also think Marc Crawford was a big piece of his wanting to leave. He is notorious for being a bad coach for young players, and we all know how his tenure ended.
He had his worst year with the Kings in Crawford’s second year. Cammalleri leaves to play for Calgary and goes on to have a career year, and then goes to Montreal and is helping to lead his team into a potential upset of both the President’s Trophy winner and the reigning Stanley Cup champs.
Could his departure have been avoided? Maybe not, but he’s a natural goal scorer, and those guys don’t just drop into your lap next to a center who is a point-a-game player. I think a player of his talent should been given more rope, and more effort should have been made to convince him to stay.
Right now, the pick the Kings got for eventually resulted in Colton Teubert (which only reminds me that they flipped picks with Buffalo at 13, and Buffalo used the 12th pick to take some kid named Tyler Myers), so maybe it’s too early to tell if it was a good trade.
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luc20rules Reply:
May 12th, 2010 at 11:03 pm
@KingMe20, Cut in pasting my past blog, I would like to say by the time we made the trade it was too late to salvage the relationship of player and ownership. If we were to sign Cammalleri it would have had to be done before an NHL abitrator decided he was only worth a 2 year contract at 1.5 mil/yr. I don’t know if rumors or true but what I had heard was DL offered 4 yr 13 mil(3.25mil/yr), and it was refused. On top of that don’t you think Cammalleri may be playing with more fire in his belly and a chip on his shoulder after 2 teams LA & Cal told him he wasn’t worth 6 mil/yr. Honestly, I think that was also the number in his or his agent’s mind before arbitration in the summer of 2007. All I can say is I don’t think he would be the competitor he is now without the history he has had. I know he coasted thru the 2007-8 season with the Kings. Would he have been so determined if DL just ponied up the money?
Don’t really know for sure?
Do I miss his ability on the Kings, yes was there a mistake thats hard to answer, because Rich wasn’t here to get the numbers that went back and forth, and was the attitude problem as bad as rumors made it sound?
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Listening on the radio. Sounds like Clifford is everywhere.
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Listening on the radio, sounds like Clifford is everywhere.
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Win or lose tonight for the Monarchs, the goal is a 1-1 split, then go home for three games…
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Loktionov!
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4-1 Hershey winning… about 5 min left
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B, WAVES…
when the heck did halak become patrick roy…?!?!…
he is making unbelievable point-blank saves…how long can he keep this up…?
he’s actually reminding me a bit of how hasek would just take over a playoff series…
wow…just amazing saves…crosby twice just recently…wow…!
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BakoCAkingsCondorsGuy Reply:
May 12th, 2010 at 6:18 pm
V:
Since the Habs became the late ’90′s New Jersey Devils…
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BakoCAkingsCondorsGuy Reply:
May 12th, 2010 at 6:24 pm
TURN OUT THE LIGHTS, THE PARTY’S OVER…
–And they say, All Good Things Must End!–
mch 2-4 HER/Final
mon 5-2 PGH/3rd period, 9:20 left…
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wavesinair Reply:
May 12th, 2010 at 6:40 pm
@variable,
“how long can he keep this up?”
Through 16 wins.
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Well…
mch 2-4 HER/3rd period, late…
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Sick Pass. Sick Goal.
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Sick Pass. Sick Goal. Game Over.
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Minnesota Kings Fan Reply:
May 13th, 2010 at 6:22 am
@Count RockuLA,
“Sick?” I assume that is some sort of west coast slang for “awesome” or “amazing.” I quizzed my Minnesota high school students about this term and none had heard it before, either. Pretty sure I’ll never use it….
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i know he’s one-dimensional, has questionable character issues and demands a lot for his vagabond services…but…michael cammalleri is doing that one-dimensional extremely well and just adding to his future value now that he has established himself as a playoff performer…
i still think it was a move the kings had to make in trading cammy at the time…
however, he’s backing up his cockiness by scoring goals and leading his team to the conference finals…
right now, cammy is getting what he wants…
but it doesn’t mean that we can’t get what we want, the way we want it, without him…
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BakoCAkingsCondorsGuy Reply:
May 12th, 2010 at 6:33 pm
Could it be, next year?
–Habs vs. Kings, the Canadiens as Defending Stanley Cup Champs…–
I’d be watching.
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KingMe20 Reply:
May 12th, 2010 at 6:36 pm
@variable,
Sometimes you need guys like that on your team to win. Claude Lemieux was a right bastard of a player, hated by opponents and teammates alike. Yet, he always had a place in the NHL because he won four Cups and a Conn Smythe.
You may not like Cammalleri personally (and you’re not to be blamed for that), but he does his job as well as anyone right now, and he’s the type of goal-scoring threat the Kings just don’t have right now.
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Umm… what’s with the dude with the chimpanzee puppet behind the Pittsburgh bench?
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Cammy, just did not like playing in LA period! He is a true Canaidain and the only teams he wants to play for…But I like the guy and this is his dream and he is living it. Good for him.
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