Jonathan Quick left the ice first at this morning's skate at the United Center, indicating he has been tabbed as tonight's starter against the

20-year-old Chicago Blackhawks rookie Brandon Saad has been skating - and succeeding - on a line with center Jonathan Toews as the team weathers

I was going to write a piece on the team’s overall shooting percentage but was getting a varying account of statistics from site to site. After adding the players’ goals and shot totals up individually, my numbers equaled those of the former.

According to those numbers, the Kings’ 9.92 shooting percentage ranks 10th in the NHL.

Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes the bear, well, he eats you.

Per the NHL Department of Player Safety, Kings forward Jordan Nolan was fined $1,436.94 by the league for his second period crosscheck of Canucks

The American Hockey League continues towards the final month of the schedule, major junior hockey playoffs are underway and the NCAA tournament field has been announced. LA Kings Insider will continue to update statistics and achievements of players among the club’s recent draft classes and will take a look this week at the players selected at the 2011 NHL Entry Draft in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Previously – Prospect Update: 2012 NHL Draft

Stories from Vancouver writers and quotes from the Canucks locker room:

Ben Kuzma, The Province: Power-saving Canucks preserve win streak with narrow win over Kings

Ben Kuzma, The Province: One tough 20-save shutout for Schneider

Brad Ziemer, Vancouver Sun: Canucks only need 13 shots and great goaltending to beat Kings 1-0

Harrison Mooney, Vancouver Sun: I Watched This Game: Canucks at Los Angeles Kings, March 23, 2013

Vancitydan, Nucks Misconduct: Canucks Copulae

-The save that Cory Schneider made on the Mike Richards and Trevor Lewis two-on-one capped off an excellent sequence of Good Hockey. As the

Cory Schneider deservedly earned the game's first star with a 20-save shutout and denied Trevor Lewis on a shorthanded two-on-one with Mike Richards, but

Los Angeles Kings prospect and New Jersey native Nick Ebert is getting his first taste of professional hockey with the Ontario Reign after his ECHL call-up earlier this week. The 18-year-old, selected with the last overall pick (seventh round / 211th overall) in the 2012 NHL Entry Draft, recently concluded his third season with the Windsor Spitfires, who failed to make the Ontario Hockey League playoffs for the first time since 2007.

Junior hockey is highly cyclical and even Windsor, a team that emerged as an OHL powerhouse with a pair of league championships and Memorial Cups in 2009 and 2010 and produced players such as Taylor Hall, Adam Henrique and Cam Fowler, was forced to rebuild with a younger roster in 2012-13. After averaging 40 points and finishing as a minus-2 in each of his first two junior seasons, Ebert logged heavy minutes as part of a very young Spitfires blue line and finished with 11 goals, 38 points and a minus-39 rating as he regularly drew difficult assignments.