Everyone please have a safe New Year’s Eve… Because of tomorrow’s 6 p.m. start time, the Kings won’t have a morning skate. To catch up on today’s news and notes, please check out my LAKings.com notebook, and to get a jump-start on the San Jose Sharks, you can check out the San Jose Mercury News’ [...]
Archive of entries posted on December 2010
Another multi-point game for Schenn
Brayden Schenn was at it again today. The Kings prospect had one goal and one assist in Canada’s 6-5 shootout loss to Sweden in pool-play action in the World Junior Championships. In four pool-play games, Schenn totaled seven goals and seven assists. Here is Schenn’s game-by-game breakdown so far… Sunday vs. Russia — 1 goal, [...]
Can the Kings avoid another slide?
The last time the Kings’ play dipped, things snowballed quickly. The Kings’ 6-3 loss at San Jose on Nov. 15 was a proverbial punch in the nose, and it essentially took the Kings two weeks to recover, as that loss started a 1-7-0 skid. In some ways, Wednesday’s 6-3 loss at Phoenix had much the [...]
Rough week for Kings’ goalies
The Kings made it through 39 regular-season games, dating to last season, without pulling their starting goaltender from the game. It has now happened twice in the last two games. First, Jonathan Quick was pulled in the second period of Wednesday’s loss to Phoenix, after he allowed six goals on 24 shots. Then, Jonathan Bernier [...]
Business as usual for Murray
The Kings had a fast-paced, 45-minute practice today, no different than most other between-games practices. There was no “bag skate,” no on-ice screaming by the coaching staff. The only nod to any type of recent struggle was a longer-than-usual post-practice huddle with Terry Murray and the players. Anything else would have been out of character [...]
Quick tomorrow; injury updates
Jonathan Quick will get the start in goal tomorrow night against San Jose. Willie Mitchell and Alexei Ponikarovsky went on the ice after practice for skating and a few drills, but there’s no return date set for either player. Terry Murray indicated that Ponikarovsky remains day-to-day and that Michell could be out another week or [...]
Friday practice update
The Kings are roughly a half hour into practice, without Alexei Ponikarovsky or Willie Mitchell on the ice. Otherwise, it’s the same lines and pairs as in the past few games. More updates from practice to come…
Postgame notes (Dec. 30)
Some notes from last night’s game… – The Kings were on the wrong end of a back-to-back sweep, as they fell to the Philadelphia Flyers 7-4 on Thursday night at Staples Center, one night after a loss at Phoenix. – The Kings allowed a season-worst seven goals. They had allowed six goals three times this [...]
The view from Philadelphia
Here’s how Philly.com — the online arm of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News newspapers — presented last night’s Kings-Flyers game, along with a nice piece of Kings assistant coach John Stevens facing his former team for the first time, plus some additional postgame quotes from the Flyers’ locker room… Leighton shakes off rust [...]
Tonight’s game story (Dec. 30)
Here’s my LAKings.com game story for tonight, with stats and video included. Thanks for reading… Kings lose to Flyers 7-4 The Kings are scheduled to practice tomorrow at 11 a.m. at the Toyota Sports Center in El Segundo.
Murray postgame quotes
Terry Murray’s postgame thoughts… (on his postgame message to the team…) MURRAY: “There was no message.” (on whether Bernier lost composure with the play around his net…) MURRAY: “That’s the way the league is. There’s lots of heavy play around the net. He’s a young guy. He’s going to have to learn to deal with [...]
Greene postgame quotes
Matt Greene’s postgame thoughts… (on the game breakdowns…) GREENE: “It’s mental and execution. It goes hand in hand. We’ve got to play the game, think the game and right now we’re not doing either one on defense. … This game got away from us. That’s it. We’ve got to be more disciplined against a team [...]
Scuderi postgame quotes
Rob Scuderi’s postgame thoughts… (on the last two losses…) SCUDERI: “They were certainly two of our ugliest of the year. We’re not making excuses for ourselves, but it does happen. We have to scrape it under the rug and move on.” (on how much of a factor fatigue plays in a season…) SCUDERI: “Sure, it [...]
FINAL: Flyers 7, Kings 4
After allowing a combined total of three goals in victories over Colorado, Edmonton, Anaheim and San Jose, the Kings have now allowed 13 goals in their last two games. Tonight’s seven goals were the most the Kings have allowed this season. The Kings outshot the Flyers 36-28. More from the locker room to come…
Flyers 7, Kings 4
The Kings allowed their seventh goal — a season-worst — as the Flyers took a 7-4 lead at the 9:10 mark of the third period. After the Flyers kept control of the puck down low, Ville Leino got control in the slot, shot through traffic and beat Quick to give the Flyers a three-goal lead [...]
End of second: Flyers 6-4
UPDATE: Credit for the Kings’ fourth goal was changed from Ryan Smyth to Dustin Brown, then changed back to Smyth, who now has two goals tonight. The wild second period is over, after six goals, seven minor penalties and a combined total of 30 shots on goal.
Flyers 6, Kings 4
The Kings pulled back within two goals with a power-play goal with 2:48 remaining in the second period. Leighton made a stop on Jarret Stoll’s shot, but Smyth, in front of the net, poked at the rebound and knocked it into the net to make it a 6-4 game. Drew Doughty also picked up an [...]
Flyers 6, Kings 3
Philadelphia’s second power-play goal of the period gave the Flyers a 6-3 lead with 5:43 remaining in the second period. The Kings killed a 20-second 5-on-3 Flyers power play, but couldn’t kill the second penalty, as James van Riemsdyk picked up a rebound in the right circle, turned and beat Bernier with a wrist shot. [...]
Flyers 5, Kings 3
Soon after the Kings made it a one-goal game, the Flyers regained their two-goal lead with a 5-on-3 goal. Davis Drewiske was called for interference, and then Rob Scuderi took an uncharacteristic slashing penalty, giving the Flyers a two-man advantage for 1:26. After a scramble in front of the Kings’ net, Jeff Carter slipped the [...]
Flyers 4, Kings 3
A power-play goal pulled the Kings within one goal at the 8:11 mark. After Leighton made a point-blank save on Michal Handzus, the puck came back up top, and Jack Johnson ripped a slap shot past Leighton from the left point with Handzus running traffic in front to cut the Flyers’ lead to 4-3.
