Southwest Airlines willing, I will be back in Los Angeles in a couple hours, and I’m scheduled to do a video chat with Dustin Brown from Vancouver. Do you have any questions for him? Previous Brown chats — posted here — have covered the early parts of Brown’s Olympic experience, but since then he has [...]

It’s a big day in Vancouver, as the United States faces Canada at 4:40 p.m. Pacific time. Other games are Russia vs. Czech Republic at noon and Sweden vs. Finland at 9 p.m. Today is the final day of preliminary-round play. The top four teams earn a bye to the quarterfinals, and if play was [...]

Dustin Brown is back for a second video chat from Vancouver, with Jim Fox. Check it out below. Is everyone gearing up for the USA-Canada game today?

Following yesterday’s thrilling men’s hockey games — Canada beat Switzerland and Slovakia beat Russia in shootouts by scores of 2-1, and the United States beat Norway 6-1 — it’s a lighter day today. It’s Belarus vs. Sweden at noon, Czech Republic vs. Latvia at 4:30 p.m. and Finland vs. Germany at 9 p.m. On the [...]

Before Slovakia’s big 2-1 shootout victory over Russia last night, Michal Handzus did an interview with LAKings.com… Handzus Q&A Heidi Androl is also in Vancouver and has blogged about her experiences so far… Heidi’s blog Finally, the Wall Street Journal today did a piece of the U.S. hockey team, which includes a quote from Jack [...]

Where are some of the Kings spending the Olympic break? Sean O’Donnell planned a trip to Hawaii, while Oscar Moller was going to stay home in Southern California and take care of his and his roommates’ Labrador puppy. Terry Murray was on his way back to the New England area to visit his daughters. There [...]

Want to know how things are going for Dustin Brown in Vancouver? Brown did a video chat with Jim Fox, and you can see it by clicking below…

I’m happy to (finally) announce that there is a Facebook page for the LAKingsInsider.com blog, so please sign up and join the community! The blog should feed there as well — albeit on a slight delay — and you can also post pictures… LAKingsInsider.com Facebook page

On the men’s ice hockey side, it’s a big day as the United States plays Norway at noon, Canada plays Switzerland at 4:30 p.m. and Slovakia plays Russia at 9 p.m. Last night, Slovakia lost 3-1 to the Czech Republic last night, and Michal Handzus had one shot on goal. And don’t forget the curling [...]

For those who weren’t there — I’m not certain if it was on TV or not — I’ll embed below the video of the Olympic “sendoff” ceremony after Saturday’s Kings-Avalanche game. There are other videos at Kings Vision and more Olympic coverage at lakings.com/olympics.

There was a question about why Jack Johnson was being booed by a portion of the crowd in Vancouver. It goes back to the 2006 World Juniors in Vancouver, when Johnson elbowed Canada’s Steve Downie after an empty-net goal. I recently saw one account that described it as Johnson “viciously” elbowing Downie. Now, was it [...]

Here’s a recap of yesterday’s games… USA 3, Switzerland 1: Dustin Brown played 13:27 and did not record any points or shots and had an even rating. Jack Johnson played 16:56 and was plus-1. Jonathan Quick did not play. David Backes, Ryan Malone and Bobby Ryan had goals for USA, and Ryan Miller stopped 14 [...]

The men’s Olympic hockey tournament gets underway today, with the United States facing Switzerland (noon), Canada facing Norway (4:30 p.m.) and Russia facing Latvia (9 p.m.). In even more exciting news, the curling tournaments start today. Does Great Britain really have a chance to knock off Canada? How about the surprising Chinese women?

It’s hard to know what to make of this 16-day break for the Kings, and in all reality, we won’t know until at least a week after it ends. On the positive side, it’s never a bad thing for players to get a rest during the season, particularly with a tough playoff stretch run upcoming. [...]

A couple things… One, if the blog goes down at some point today, it’s scheduled. A server change is in store to deal with heavier traffic, etc., so there might be a brief outage today. Since it’s the day before the Olympic tournament, and I’ll be traveling for most of the day, the timing is [...]

The final NHL games before the Olympic break are being played today, and teams will not be allowed to practice again until next Wednesday, Feb. 24. That’s when the Kings will return, with a 2 p.m. practice, and they will have up to six days of practice before their March 2 game at Dallas. Of [...]

Let the Games begin, and now it’s Kings vs. Kings. Three countries — the United States (Dustin Brown, Jack Johnson, Jonathan Quick), Canada (Drew Doughty) and Slovakia (Michal Handzus) — will have Kings players representing them at the Olympic hockey tournament, and while the players (at least publicly) have been saying all the right things [...]

Rich Clune had two assists Saturday night, for his first multi-point game in his second NHL game. He also did it in front of family, as his father and a cousin made the trip out from Toronto… CLUNE: “My dad and my cousin made it out. Someone let them down to the bench area at [...]

Here’s my LAKings.com game story from tonight, with stats and video included. Thanks for reading! Kings beat Avalanche 3-0

Terry Murray’s postgame thoughts… (on the Kings’ 60-minute game…) MURRAY: “A real good third period, I thought. When you have a one-goal lead, you really have to dig in and do the right things, managing the puck the right way. I thought everybody bought in to what needed to be done to finish the game [...]