A reminder on a couple upcoming events… First, the annual Tip-A-King event will be held this Sunday at the Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, For more information about the charity event, you can click here, and if you’re on the fence about buying tickets, discounted tickets are available at the link below. General-admission tickets, [...]

At the start of this week, Terry Murray and the Kings’ coaching staff spoke about the need for the defensemen to get more active. It seems that Drew Doughty listened. After going without a goal in his first nine games, Doughty scored a goal Tuesday against Nashville and another last night against Vancouver. Doughty also [...]

Colin Fraser made his season — and Kings — debut last night, and Trent Hunter returned to the lineup after a five-game absence as a healthy scratch. How did they fare? Fraser played 7 minutes, 9 seconds, recorded one shot on goal and three hits and took an interference penalty. Hunter played 8:21 and recorded [...]

Practices often have a theme, and given that the Kings’ offensive strugglest persist — two or fewer regulation goals in 13 of 16 games — it’s no surprise that today’s practice centered around improved passing, particularly in terms of moving the puck quickly and accurately from the back end, Terry Murray said. MURRAY: “Not on [...]

As noted in last night’s game recap, the Kings have taken a penalty within the first four minutes of the game in four consecutive games. Last night, Trevor Lewis got called for a five-minute elbowing penalty and, just as the Kings seemed to be managing that penalty kill fairly well, Drew Doughty was called for [...]

Terry Murray said he was “inclined” not to make any lineup changes for tomorrow but said he had not totally made up his mind. Murray remained rather displeased with the elbowing call on Trevor Lewis last night, believing it was not a penalty at all, but still stressed the importance of staying out of the [...]

The Kings are lined up the way they played last night, with Ethan Moreau, Colin Fraser and Trevor Lewis on the fourth line, and with Lewis also dropping back to take rushes with Bead Richardson and Kevin Westgarth. No other changes this morning, in advance of tomorrow’s game against Minnesota. More updates to come…

Some notes from last night’s game… – The Kings lost for the sixth time in their last seven games as they fell to the Vancouver Canucks 3-2 on Thursday night at Staples Center. – The Kings, after a 5-1-1 start, are now 1-4-2 in their last seven games. – The Kings were outshot 32-30, including [...]

You don’t pull on Superman’s cape, and you don’t give power plays to the Vancouver Canucks right now. Last Sunday, the Canucks went 5-for-6 on the power play against Chicago, and the Kings gave them a golden opportunity with an early 5-on-3 advantage last night. They capitalized, with two goals, and the Kings never fully [...]

Here’s my LAKings.com game recap for tonight, with stats, video and pictures included. Thanks for reading… Canucks 3, Kings 2 The Kings are scheduled to practice tomorrow at 11:30 a.m. at the Toyota Sports Center in El Segundo.

Terry Murray’s postgame thoughts… (on having to kill the early penalties…) MURRAY: “Yeah, it’s a big hole, big hole. It’s very hard to dig out of a hole like that against that team. They’re just too deep, too good. They were President’s Trophy winners for a reason. We couldn’t do it, bottom line. We tried. [...]

Jonathan Quick’s postgame thoughts… (on the game…) QUICK: “You don’t want to get down one goal, two goals, it doesn’t matter. You always want to score the first goal and we were unable to do that tonight. The next 50 minutes, we were trying to get out of the hole we dug ourselves in, but [...]

Matt Greene’s postgame thoughts… (on the lack of scoring this season…) GREENE: “It’s just not going in for us right now, but I thought we had a lot of chances tonight, after the first (period). I thought we were there. (The Canucks) did a good job of bottling things up there in front of the [...]

Justin Williams’ postgame thoughts… (on whether he’s surprised by the lack of scoring this season…) WILLIAMS: “Yeah, certainly. The bulk of the season is coming up here, huge, important parts of the season here. The offensive, and certainly myself at the top of the list, should be scoring more, getting to the net. I think [...]

For the third time in four nights, it’s Kings hockey, this time against the Vancouver Canucks. All the action is on Fox Sports West and on 1150-AM and affiliates, and all the game updates will be here as well… THIRD PERIOD In goal: It’s still Quick vs. Luongo. Canucks 3, Kings 2: With their net [...]

Tonight’s game is the first of four meetings between the Kings and Vancouver Canucks. The Kings went 2-2-0 against the Canucks last season, with two wins in the first week of the season followed by two losses in March. The Kings scored one regulation goal in three of those four games. This season, the Canucks [...]

An odd, fascinating scene took place last night in Tampa, where the Lightning dropped into the 1-3-1 formation and the Philadelphia Flyers, rather than trying to attack the cluttered neutral zone, simply held the puck. It led to the hockey version of an Old West standoff, and eventually the officials blew the play dead and [...]

Scott Parse will miss tonight’s game because of his “lower-body injury,’’ and at this point there’s no timetable for his return. Parse is on injured reserve, so his soonest possible return date would be next Thursday at Anaheim, meaning he will miss at least three games. Terry Murray didn’t have much in terms of an [...]

Can Trent Hunter give the Kings what they’re searching for, in terms of secondary scoring? Hunter, signed to a one-year contract after he came to training camp as a non-roster player, has proven to be a former capable of scoring 12-20 goals in the post-lockout NHL. He had one goal in 17 games with the [...]

Trent Hunter hasn’t played in a game in 11 days, and Colin Fraser hasn’t played in a game in more than six months. Tonight, they will both be in the Kings’ lineup, and is that a cause for concern? Players who haven’t been in game action for a while can sometimes but rusty, and now [...]