Dustin Brown opened the scoring 4:57 into the first period. Brown skated into the Sabres’ zone, took a pass from Anze Kopitar and beat Miller with a high shot to the far post to give the Kings a 1-0 lead. Jack Johnson also got an assist.

First, Jim Fox was a guest this morning on the “NHL Live” program, on the NHL Network and SiriusXM radio, talking Kings… Jim Fox on NHL Live Second, to catch up on today’s news and notes before the game, check out my LAKings.com notebook for today. Thanks for reading Nov. 19 notebook Finally, click below [...]

The Sabres are looking at a couple possible changes tonight. Their captain, Craig Rivet, is expected to return to the lineup in place of Chris Butler, and it’s possible that Patrick Kaleta might be in the lineup in place of Nathan Gerbe. Mike Harrington of the Buffalo News has more on this on his blog. [...]

Jonathan Bernier’s immediate focus will be on tonight’s game, of course, but Bernier is already getting his ticket requests in order for Wednesday, when he will start in goal at Montreal. Bernier is a native of Laval, Quebec, which is less than a half-hour drive from downtown Montreal, and Bernier will get to make the [...]

A year ago, Dwight King was in the East Coast Hockey League. A week ago, he was in the American Hockey League. Now he’s the first-line left winger for an NHL team. That’s not a bad career trajectory. King will get a chance, tonight, to play on the Kings’ first line with center Anze Kopitar [...]

Here’s what Terry Murray said today about his decision to play Peter Harrold tonight, instead of Jake Muzzin, on defense… MURRAY: “I just thought Muzzin had a tough game the other night. He seemed to be caught in between. He’s a young guy that has been playing at a very good level of us, and [...]

Jonathan Bernier will start tonight, and will also start Wednesday in Montreal, which is a big thing for Bernier, a native of Quebec. As expected, Dwight King will start the game on the first line and Peter Harrold will replace Jake Muzzin, partnering with Davis Drewiske. More notes and quotes to come…

The Kings won’t be on the ice for their morning skate for another hour, but word is that Dwight King will move up to the first line tonight, with Brad Richardson moving back to the third line. Peter Harrold is expected to replace Jake Muzzin on defense. No word yet on tonight’s goalie. More updates [...]

Buffalo…well, it’s certainly everything I imagined it would be… Also, here’s the latest on the Sabres from Mike Harrington of the Buffalo News… Miller gets a start in the cereal game

The “vintage” purple-and-gold jerseys, which the Kings wore during the season opener at Vancouver, will be worn in three home games this season, and each game will be attached to a former Kings standout. On Jan. 15 against Edmonton, the Kings will honor Rogie Vachon. On Feb. 24 against Minnesota, they will honor Bob Berry. [...]

Dwight King, called up from Manchester of the AHL on Tuesday, made his NHL debut Wednesday in a third-line role with center Michal Handzus and right winger Wayne Simmonds. King played 11 minutes, 1 second, all at even strength, and recorded two shots on goal and three hits. Afterward, Terry Murray was asked for his [...]

Some notes off of last night’s game… – The Kings suffered their first home loss of the season, as they fell to the Columbus Blue Jackets 5-3 on Wednesday night. The Kings had been 8-0-0 at home. – The Kings (12-5-0) have now lost consecutive games for the first time this season. – The Kings [...]

Here are some quotes from the Blue Jackets’ locker room last night… COACH SCOTT ARNIEL (on the game…) “It was a wild one. We got off to a good start, got that first goal, and it gave us a little bit of a jump start. They’re a team that pressures hard, as we saw. They [...]

Here’s my LAKings.com game story for tonight, with stats and video included. Thanks for reading… Kings lose to Blue Jackets 5-3 The  Kings have a morning flight to Buffalo, so there will be no on-ice activity tomorrow.

Terry Murray’s postgame thoughts… (on the matchup against Nash, and giving up the late goal…) MURRAY: “The matchup was good, it was effective all night long. Handzus, that’s the line we want out against those guys. They’re a big line a big line. We feel we’ve got three big guys on Handzus’ line and they [...]

Matt Greene’s postgame thoughts… (on the game…) GREENE: “We knew it was going to be a tight game all the way out. It wasn’t going to be a run-and-gun. They definitely clogged things up well. They do a good job, they’re well coached and we knew what kind of game it was going to be. [...]

Dustin Brown’s postgame thoughts… (on the game…) BROWN: “They’re a strong defensive, checking team. We had our chances offensively, and I guess the one thing that was out of the ordinary for us was that we had a lead in the third period and we let it go. That hasn’t happened in a long time [...]

Rick Nash added an empty-net goal with 38.5 seconds remaining. The Kings suffered their first home loss, after an 8-0-0 start, as they outshot the Blue Jackets 36-25 but gave up the game-winning goal in the final four minutes. More from the locker room to come…

The Blue Jackets took a 4-3 lead with 3:12 remaining. Brassard made a cross-ice pass to Rick Nash, who went around Davis Drewiske in the left circle and beat Quick with a close-range wrist shot.

The Kings’ lead lasted less than three minutes. Kyle Wilson’s backhand shot got blocked in front of the Kings’ net, but Jared Boll picked up the rebound and scored on a wrist shot 3:48 into the third period to tie the game 3-3.