After a day off, the Kings will be back at practice tomorrow at 10 a.m. in El Segundo. For now, here's the three-part interview Bob Miller did with Darryl Sutter, a wide-ranging look at Sutter's upbringing and history in the NHL... ... Read More

Not that anyone really forgets this, but this week served as good reminder of just how impressive the 2003 NHL Draft was. Monday's game at Nashville featured four players from the first round of that draft -- Ryan Suter (No. 7), Jeff Carter (No. 11), Dustin Brown (No. 13) and Mike Richards (No. 24) ... Read More

This hasn't been the easiest of seasons for Jonathan Bernier, on an individual level. Bernier played 25 games last season and was excellent down the stretch, and last fall in training camp, Terry Murray indicated that Bernier might be able to push for even more playing time. Then, in large part beca... Read More

James Mirtle of the Globe and Mail newspaper took a nice look, post-trade-deadline, at how NHL stack up in a ``tale of the tape'' sort of way. Mirtle ran the numbers in order to determine the youngest, oldest, biggest and smallest (in terms of weight) teams in the league, after the trade-deadline mo... Read More

Some notes from last night’s game... -- The Kings earned a split of their quick two-game road trip, as they beat the Minnesota Wild 4-0 on Tuesday night at Xcel Energy Center. -- The Kings have reached the four-goal mark in 15 of their 64 games this season, and have a 13-0-2 record in those ga... Read More

The Minnesota Wild are not out of the Western Conference playoff race, not by any stretch of the imagination, given that they’re only five points behind eighth-place Dallas, but the Wild missed a huge opportunity last night. They could have moved ahead of Calgary and moved within one point of the 10... Read More

Sports are full of ``go figure’’ moments and games. Consider the past two days for the Kings. They went into Nashville, worked hard, put 31 shots on goal and came away with only a late consolation goal and a loss. Then, last night, in the first minute, Slava Voynov essentially lobbed a shot toward t... Read More

Darryl Sutter’s postgame thoughts... (on getting four goals after last night’s frustration...) SUTTER: ``We thought we played really well last night and we didn’t get nothing for it. Tonight, we got a break early and that probably was the difference in the game. That team over there has made a l... Read More

Jonathan Bernier’s postgame thoughts... (on being sharp after not starting in a while...)
 BERNIER: ``I got in a few games, in Florida and Colorado. We came out big in the first and got some lucky bounces. It’s nice to play with a lead, obviously.’’ (on playing with the lead...) BERNIER: ``I... Read More

Anze Kopitar’s postgame thoughts... (on getting four goals after last night’s frustration...) KOPITAR: ``It’s funny how that works. Last night, we even had more chances to score more goals than we did tonight. It was a big game for us tonight. Obviously to split these games on the road is huge, ... Read More

First, if you want to try your hand at poker, and spend some time with Bob Miller, Jim Fox and other Kings personalities, there are only 25 spots remaining for Thursday's Kings-Ducks charity poker tournament at San Manuel Indian Bingo and Casino. Click here for more information. On the ice, there's ... Read More

This is the third of four meetings this season between the Kings and the Minnesota Wild. The teams split two games in Los Angeles, with the Kings winning 5-2 on Nov. 12 and the Wild winning 4-2 on Dec. 8. Jonathan Quick started both of those games for the Kings, but Jonathan Bernier gets the call to... Read More

Much of the focus in the past few days has been on Jeff Carter, and how his arrival might impact the Kings’ forwards, but just as important is how Slava Voynov fits in as Jack Johnson’s full-time replacement, in the second defensive pair with Willie Mitchell. It’s not a role with which Voynov is ent... Read More