Here’s to the blissful peace of a Monday morning at Toyota Sports Center, Insiders.
The LA Kings took the ice shortly before 10:00 a.m. Alec Martinez skated in a regular jersey, not an off-colored jersey, and was paired with Matt Roy during drills that suggested an alignment. Austin Wagner (lower-body) did not skate with the team; as of a check-in yesterday afternoon, there wasn’t an update available on his status. There was a good deal of skating and transition work that segued into two-on-two drills up and down the ice as the team got its legs going. There were net-front battle drills and in-zone five-on-five work and power play detail before the team convened at the center of the ice for a stretch.
Lines and pairings were:
Brown-Kopitar-Toffoli
Leipsic-Carter-Kovalchuk
Iafallo-Kempe-Brodzinski
Clifford-Lewis-Luff
Forbort-Doughty
Martinez-Roy
Phaneuf-Walker
MacDermid-LaDue
More to come throughout the day, Insiders. Thank you for reading.
Rules for Blog Commenting
Repeated violations of the blog rules will result in site bans, commensurate with the nature and number of offenses.
Please flag any comments that violate the site rules for moderation. For immediate problems regarding problematic posts, please email zdooley@lakings.com.