Here’s my LAKings.com game story for tonight and, also, my recap of today’s earlier news, the Kings trade for Dustin Penner and their signing of Justin Williams to a contract extension. Thanks for reading… Kings lose to Red Wings 7-4 Kings trade for Penner, re-sign Williams The Kings have an off day tomorrow and are [...]

Terry Murray’s postgame thoughts… (on how the game got away from the Kings…) MURRAY: “Good start. We score, they score, and the momentum seemed to change late in the first period, to me. That’s a good hockey club. They are on a tough trip right now. They’ve got like four games in six days here. They’re going [...]

Jack Johnson’s postgame thoughts… (on the game…)
 JOHNSON: “It’s easier to just say, `OK, forget it, let’s move on and reset.’ We have a big division game on Thursday, so you just move on. We still did some good things out there against a great hockey team. They’re a great team, the puck was going [...]

Jonathan Quick’s postgame thoughts… (on the game…)
 QUICK: “They’re a good team. Don’t get me wrong, they’re a great team. I think we did a lot of good things at the beginning of the game. We came out and scored the first goal and then I let up a bad goal, kind of took the [...]

Dustin Brown’s postgame thoughts… (on the game…) BROWN: “The second period, I thought, we kind of sat back, and you can’t sit back against a team like that. The third period is a whole other story. We didn’t even compete for a lot of the period. We didn’t have guys competing, which is unacceptable regardless [...]

The Kings got two goals in the final 65 seconds, from Wayne Simmonds and Brad Richardson, but matched season-worsts by allowing seven goals and by losing by a three-goal margin. More from the locker room to come…

The Kings ended a run of seven consecutive Detroit goals when Dustin Brown scored with 7:34 remaining. Anze Kopitar, in the middle of the left circle, pushed the puck ahead to Brown, who turned and fired from close range and beat Howard to make it a 7-2 game.

Bernier wasn’t immune to the Red Wings’ offense either, as Detroit took a 7-1 lead with 9:38 remaining in the third period. Jakub Kindl held the puck in the middle of the left faceoff circle, faked a shot then made a perfect cross-ice pass to Jiri Hudler in the right circle. Hudler roofed a shot [...]

Quick left the game after Detroit’s sixth goal, 5:53 into the third period. Quick made the save on Kris Draper’s wrist shot, but the puck popped in the air. Drew Miller beat Rob Scuderi to the front of the net and knocked the rebound past Quick, who was then replaced by Jonathan Bernier after allowing [...]

A third special-teams goal — this time a shorthanded goal — gave the Red Wings a 5-1 lead just 2:01 into the third period. Darren Helm forced the puck away from Drew Doughty at the Detroit blue line, then skated it all the way to the Kings’ net and beat Quick with a wrist shot, [...]

Detroit’s second power-play goal of the game gave the Red Wings a three-goal lead with 42 seconds remaining in the second period. Pavel Datsyuk skated the puck to the middle of the left circle and beat Quick with a sharp wrist shot to the far corner of the net as the Red Wings took a [...]

A power-play goal with 1:12 remaining in the first period gave the Red Wings a 3-1 lead. After a bit of a scramble in front of Quick, the puck went up high to Nicklas Lidstrom, who shot from the blue line. The puck got through traffic, hit the post and deflected in off Quick. The [...]

Detroit took the lead with two goals just 30 seconds apart, as the Red Wings scored on their first two shots on goal of the game. First, just 2:28 after Handzus’ goal, the Red Wings tied the game. Drew Miller carried the puck down low and looked to be going behind the net. Instead, Miller [...]

The Kings took a 1-0 lead with a power-play goal 4:09 into the first period. Jarret Stoll’s shot from the blue line went wide, but the puck kicked hard off the end boards, back toward the net. Michal Handzus, parked at the side of the net, took two whacks and the puck and pushed it [...]

The Kings will make a lineup change tonight, with Peter Harrold replacing Kevin Westgarth and playing right wing on the fourth line with Kyle Clifford and Trevor Lewis.

Don’t forget, there’s actually an NHL game tonight between the Kings and the Detroit Red Wings. The Red Wings made a little bit of their own news today, signing goalie Jimmy Howard to a two-year, $4.5-million contract extension. The Red Wings, to little surprise, are cruising along this season, in second place in the Western [...]

How is the Kings-Oilers trade playing up north? Here’s a couple initial stories, from the Edmonton Journal and Edmonton Sun, about the trade of Dustin Penner to the Kings. A couple other things… Penner will wear No. 25 with the Kings, and after the jump, I’ve included a couple video features that highlight Penner… Oilers [...]

Not to be overlooked today is Justin Williams’ signing of a four-year, $14.6-million contract extension. Williams, 29, enters tonight’s game tied for the team lead with 20 goals. Here are Dean Lombardi’s thoughts on Williams’ signing, followed by an interview I did with Williams this morning and a video interview he did with Heidi Androl… [...]

As noted in the previous post, the Kings hope to have Dustin Penner in Los Angeles at some point today, but there are always travel/immigration hurdles. I’ll look at catch up with him as soon as possible, but for now, here’s the video of the news conference he did with Edmonton media immediately after the [...]

Here’s what Dean Lombardi said today about his trade, which brought in winger Dustin Penner from Edmonton in exchange for defenseman Colten Teubert, the 2011 first-round draft pick and a conditional 2012 third-round pick… —– Question: Can you just talk about how the deal got done? LOMBARDI: “I think it’s a long process. You kind [...]