COREY ELKINS This season: 3 games, 1 goal, 0 assists, 0 penalty minutes, 11:54 average ice time. The good: Elkins had a solid season in Manchester, showing the ability to play a decent two-way game. He’s a big guy (6-foot-3, 216 pounds) who can play a fourth-line center role but who can also move and [...]

DAVIS DREWISKE This season: 42 games, 1 goal, 7 assists, 14 penalty minutes, 15:15 average ice time. The good: After a 17-game stint in 2008-09, Drewiske earned a roster spot coming out of training camp this season and was a regular part of the lineup until he suffered an injury in early January. At his [...]

DREW DOUGHTY This season: 82 games, 16 goals, 43 assists, 54 penalty minutes, 24:58 average ice time. The good: Let’s see. All Doughty did, as a 20-year-old in his second NHL season was…lead the Kings in average ice time, lead all defensemen in goals, assists and points, finish second on the team in assists and [...]

RICH CLUNE This season: 14 games, 0 goals, 2 assists, 26 penalty minutes, 7:17 average ice time. The good: When Clune is playing his game, he’s skating well and agitating opponents, drawing minor penalties without taking a lot of them. For the most part, he succeeded during his 14-game trial run this season. Clune isn’t [...]

MARC-ANDRE CLICHE This season: 1 game, 0 goals, 0 assists, 0 penalty minutes, 7:23 ice time. The good: If it’s difficult to deduce anything from three games (Bernier), it’s all but impossible to make judgments based on on game. Cliche played one game, March 2 at Dallas, in the fourth-line center role, which is the [...]

DUSTIN BROWN This season: 82 games, 24 goals, 32 assists, 41 penalty minutes, 19:15 average ice time. The good: Brown looked strong after his Olympic experience, and had a torrid finish to the regular season, with six goals (including a hat trick) and four assists in his final six games. That stretch allowed him to [...]

The Manchester Monarchs lost to the Worcester Sharks 3-2 tonight in Game 4 of their second-round AHL playoff series, which is now even at 2-2. The Monarchs led 2-1, on goals by Gabe Gauthier and Justin Azevedo, going into the third period, but the Sharks scored twice, including the winning goal with 33.3 seconds remaining. [...]

For those not familiar with my previous work on the Daily News blog, the “player evaluations” are a usual end-of-season feature, in which I’ll give a brief rundown of each player’s season, from my perspective, and then open it up to everyone to comment and “grade” that player’s season. We’ll take all of the players [...]