The teams were scoreless over the game’s final 29 minutes, 57 seconds, after combining for nine goals in the first 30:03. The Kings tied the season-worst for goals-against and have lost three consecutive games at Phoenix. The Coyotes outshot the Kings 29-26. More from the locker room to come…
Archive of entries posted on December 2010
End of second: Coyotes 6-3
The Kings, who entered the game with the second-lowest goals-against average in the NHL this season, have already tied their season high for most goals against. (They also allowed six against St. Louis and San Jose.) Shots are 22-19 in favor of Phoenix through two periods.
Coyotes 6, Kings 3
Jonathan Quick got pulled from the game after allowing his sixth goal on 18 shots. The Coyotes took a 6-3 lead with 9:57 remaining in the second period when Kyle Turris’ wrist shot from the top of the left circle when under Quick’s left arm and into the net. Jonathan Bernier replaced Quick in goal.
Coyotes 5, Kings 3
The scoring took a temporary pause, but resumed 6:11 into the second period when the Coyotes scored on the power play to take a 5-3 lead. Shane Doan’s one-timer from the left point, with Lauri Korpikoski running traffic in front, beat Quick. Doan now has 28 goals and 64 points in 77 career regular-season games [...]
End of first: Coyotes 4-3
Mercifully, it ends. The Kings’ second goal is now credited to Ryan Smyth, not Justin Williams, if anyone is actually keeping track. Shots were 12-9 in favor of the Coyotes in the first period. [EDIT: The Kings' third goal has now been credited to Marco Sturm, with the assist to Kopitar.]
Coyotes 4, Kings 3
Once again, the teams traded goals, this time within 34 seconds. First, the Coyotes took a 4-2 lead on a power-play goal with 4:26 remaining. Brett MacLean beat Michal Handzus to the front of the net, took a perfect cross-ice pass from Upshall and tapped it past Quick to give the Coyotes a two-goal lead. [...]
Coyotes 3, Kings 2
The wild action continued as the teams traded goals within 52 seconds. First, the Kings tied the game 2-2 with a power-play goal with 8:36 remaining in the first period. Drew Doughty took a shot from the left point and Ryan Smyth, running traffic in front along with Justin Williams, tipped in the puck. Johnson [...]
Coyotes 2, Kings 1
The Kings tied the game 2:08 after Phoenix’s goal, on an alert tip-in by Brad Richardson. Kevin Westgarth took a medium-range shot with Anze Kopitar in front for a deflection, and Ilya Bryzgalov made a stop but the puck trickled behind him slightly. Richardson spotted it and tapped it over the line to tie the [...]
Coyotes 1, Kings 0
Phoenix took a 1-0 lead 5:31 into the game after a defensive-zone turnover by Jack Johnson. The puck, wobbling a bit, hopped off Johnson’s stick and Scottie Upshall picked it up and, after a quick scramble, Shane Doan tucked the puck around Quick.
Scouting the Coyotes
A reminder that tonight’s game is a 6 p.m. Pacific start and will be televised locally on Ch. 13. There’s also a free, legal video feed on Yahoo Sports, for those who can’t get the telecast. For the latest on the Coyotes, check out the Arizona Republic game story on last night’s Coyotes-Ducks game, plus [...]
Canada’s loss is Kings’ gain
We’ve been following the World Junior Championships here, and it’s easy to forget that Kyle Clifford could easily be in Buffalo right now playing in that tournament. Clifford doesn’t turn 20 until next month, so he was eligible for the World Juniors — and participated in a summer training camp for Team Canada — but [...]
Learning process for young defensemen
Yesterday, we talked about the development of young defensemen such as Davis Drewiske and Alec Martinez. It’s worth noting that the six current defensemen have an average age of 25.3. Even if you add 33-year-old Willie Mitchell into the mix, that only raises the average age to 26.4. Terry Murray was asked about the teaching [...]
Advice for Stoll: Don’t aim, just shoot
The Kings’ first-line duo of Dustin Brown and Anze Kopitar has been on fire in December, which has helped compensate for the fact that second-line center Jarret Stoll has been in a bit of a drought. Stoll had seven goals in his first 19 games this season, but has only one goal in his 16 [...]
Murray expecting better from Coyotes
Coming off their 3-1 loss to Anaheim last night, the Phoenix Coyotes are expected to come back with goalie Ilya Bryzgalov again tonight. Bryzgalov and the Coyotes beat the Kings 4-2 in the teams’ only previous meeting this season, Oct. 21 in Arizona, and the Coyotes had a seven-game winning streak in November but have [...]
Fourth line earns coach’s confidence
The Kings, once again, will go with a fourth-line look of Trevor Lewis centering Brad Richardson and Kevin Westgarth tonight. Terry Murray said Alexei Ponikarovsky, out with a lower-body injury, is “still a little lame. … He’s not able to cross over, pivot, open up, all those things that hockey players have to do.” Still, [...]
Wednesday skate update
Alexei Ponikarovsky is still having some swelling and discomfort, Terry Murray said, so he will not play tonight and the Kings will use the same lineup as in Monday’s game. As expected, Jonathan Quick will start tonight and Jonathan Bernier will start tomorrow night. Murray said Willie Mitchell skated for 30 minutes in L.A. today [...]
Schenn on Smyth: `Anything he says, I listen’
Following up on last night’s note on Brayden Schenn and his efforts for Canada in the World Junior Championships, here’s a bigger look at Schenn, courtesy of The Globe and Mail newspaper. In the story, Schenn gives credit to Ryan Smyth and speaks glowingly about the time he got to spend with the Kings veteran [...]
Morning in Phoenix
Well, technically, it’s Glendale, but you get the drift. The Kings are scheduled to be on the ice at 11:30 a.m. local time (10:30 a.m. Pacific time) for their morning skate.
World Juniors/evening reading
It was a big night for Kings prospect Brayden Schenn, who had one goal and four assists as Canada beat the Czech Republic 7-2 in a pool-play game in the World Junior Championships. Derek Forbort and the United States beat Slovakia 6-1, while Maxim Kitsyn and Russia lost to Sweden 2-0. Neither prospect scored a [...]
Kings not afraid to let it roll
The Kings played back-to-back games, Sunday at home against Anaheim and Monday at San Jose. That’s worth noting because, for the most part, it didn’t show on the ice. On Monday, having played less than 24 hours earlier, and facing a San Jose team with three days of rest under its belt, the Kings came [...]
