Ever wonder what goes on in the Kings’ locker room right after a victory? Here’s what it looked like last night, as the players came off the ice and enjoyed the first moments after their victory over the Devils. Kevin Westgarth gets a starring role in this video… Kings postgame win celebration

How are some of the Kings’ 2010 draft picks doing? To start, Alessandro Seren Rosso of RussianProspect.com passed along this item about Maxim Kitsyn’s first pro hat trick yesterday. Here’s a look at how the picks are doing… Derek Forbort (defenseman, University of North Dakota): 6 games, 0 goals, 5 assists, 4 penalty minutes. Tyler [...]

Saturday night’s ceremony to honor former Kings captain Mattias Norstrom went well, and Norstrom was presented with a watch, a gourmet coffee maker and a framed No. 14 Kings jersey. Former teammates Luc Robitaille, Rob Blake, Ian Laperriere, Derek Armstrong, Nelson Emerson, Glen Murray, Mathieu Schneider and Jamie Storr also were part of the on-ice [...]

Here are some notes from last night’s game… – The Kings got goals from Justin Wiliams, Michal Handzus and Jarret Stoll and beat the New Jersey Devils 3-1 on Saturday night. – The Kings, with an 8-3-0 record, awoke this morning with the most (16) in the NHL this season. They also improved to 4-0-0 [...]

Here’s some of the reaction from the New Jersey locker room last night… COACH JOHN MACLEAN “Tonight’s game was tough. A couple of mistakes and it’s in the net. We pushed it a little in the third period, but we weren’t getting the scoring we needed.” “They shut down Kovalchuk a couple of times. We [...]

Here’s my LAKings.com game story for tonight, with stats and video included. Thanks for reading! Kings beat Devils 3-1 The Kings will be off the ice tomorrow, with the next practice scheduled for Monday at 11 a.m. in El Segundo.

Terry Murray’s postgame thoughts… (on the game…) MURRAY: “Well, the bottom line is winning games in the National Hockey League. I’m very pleased about the fact that we came back (from the road trip) and got two points. It was a very hard game for us. This is something that’s talked about — every time [...]

Jonathan Quick’s postgame thoughts… (on having the most points in the NHL right now…) QUICK: “We’re just playing one game at a time right now. Everything that has happened so far doesn’t really factor in. It’s a long season. We’ve got a lot of games to play, so we’re just going to take it one [...]

Jarret Stoll’s postgame thoughts… (on the game…) STOLL: “It was a weird game, I thought. It wasn’t too much of a flow game. There was a lot of neutral-zone stuff and not a lot of penalties, not a lot of power plays. We definitely took advantage of the one we had, to get us going [...]

The Kings improved to 4-0 at home, as they were outshot 40-23 but were rarely threatened in the third period and beat the Devils. Jarret Stoll had a three-point nine (one goal, two assists) and Jonathan Quick improved to 7-1 while Ilya Kovalchuk did not record a point and had two shots on goal.

The Kings outshot the Devils 10-9 in the second period and take a two-goal lead into the third. The Kings went 1-for-2 on the power play in the period and 1-for-1 on the penalty kill.

The teams traded goals 24 seconds apart in the middle of the second period. New Jersey got on the board with 9:22 remaining in the period, when a slap shot by Matt Taormina from just inside the blue line found its way through traffic and beat Quick. The Kings’ two-goal lead returned with 8:58 remaining. [...]

The Kings took a 2-0 lead with a power-play goal 9:32 into the second period. Jarret Stoll took a one-time shot from the top of the left circle and Brodeur made the save by Michal Handzus, parked in front of the net, took a whack at the rebound and puck trickled past Brodeur to give [...]

The Kings’ early one-goal lead held up through the rest of the first period, even though they were outshot 11-9. The Kings killed the period’s only power play.

Justin Williams put the Kings on the board first. Ryan Smyth carried the puck into the New Jersey zone and passed to Jarret Stoll, who then dropped a pass for Williams. Williams did a slight spin move around Tyler Eckford and beat Brodeur with a wrist shot 6:52 into the game. In case it’s not [...]

Fortunately it’s not an actual view from New Jersey, but rather a couple stories from the local media looking ahead to tonight’s game. First, an item from this morning and then a game story from the Devils’ victory over Anaheim last night… Devils get a much-needed win as Patrik Elias moves to center (Star-Ledger) Martin [...]

It’s been a bumpy start for the New Jersey Devils, who won only two of their first 10 games and, in a couple of them, had to dress fewer than 23 players because of salary-cap issues. The Devils put together a 2-1 victory over Anaheim last night, as future Hall of Fame goalie Martin Brodeur [...]

Could this be the final chance for Kyle Clifford and Brayden Schenn to make an impression on Kings coaches and management? Both junior-eligible rookies are expected to be in the lineup tonight, and Terry Murray indicated that before the Kings’ next game (on Thursday), the team could decide whether to keep the players or return [...]

As previously noted, Wayne Simmonds participated in this morning’s skate and is expected to be in the lineup tonight for the Kings. Simmonds has to leave Thursday’s game early after a hit, late in the second period, by the Stars’ Matt Niskanen. The team announced that Simmonds had a lower-body injury, which was later described [...]

Ilya Kovalchuk got more than $100 million out of the New Jersey Devils, and he got a $5 cup of coffee out of Terry Murray. In case you haven’t heard, Kovalchuk — who comes to town with the Devils tonight — was pursued by the Kings this summer, a month-long dirge that included the hockey [...]