Angeles Analysis

These two-game sets are starting to feel a bit repetitive, aren’t they? The Kings have developed a pattern of a loss on night one, followed by a much-improved victory on night two, and that held firm this weekend in San Jose. Friday’s 5-2 defeat left the Kings ruing the goals allowed into thei... Full Story

The story of Game 1 between the Kings and Coyotes on Monday was Drew Doughty’s words. Direct, pointed and passionate – We need to be better. “I think is what’s been lacking for the last five games,” he said. “We haven’t had any intensity, anyone competing – I shouldn’t say that, we’ve had s... Full Story

“There were a lot of positives in that game, but it’s only a moral victory, the two-point victories are what really counts at this time of the year, and we’ve got to find a way to get a few more.” If we were looking for moral victories, we could point to the way that the UCLA Men’s Basketball tea... Full Story

There are few teams in the NHL better in their own building than the Vegas Golden Knights. At 14-2-1 entering last night’s action, the Golden Knights had dropped points in just three of 17 games at T-Mobile Arena, with three of those 14 wins coming against the Kings. Wednesday’s 4-2 victory for t... Full Story

This series in San Jose stings. There would be a lot of ways to sit down and write why, but I think that Drew Doughty summed it up about as well as I could have, with his quote on the two games yesterday. “It’s disappointing for sure,” Doughty said. “San Jose is a good team, and I believe we... Full Story

After Friday’s game against Vegas, Todd McLellan felt that the Kings showed the NHL’s second-best team by points percentage too much respect at the start of the game and disrespected what his group can do. Sunday, the players seemed to have received the message. The Kings started the game ... Full Story

Another game between the LA Kings and St. Louis Blues, another victory for the boys from Southern California. This is not a bad opponent we’re talking about either. It's actually a very strong opponent. The Blues opened the season as a team widely regarded as a near playoff lock, and they are a ... Full Story

For just the second time this season, the Kings departed a two-game set without a point, as they dropped both games played this weekend in Colorado. Todd McLellan called the Avalanche’s performance on Friday the best game a team has played against the Kings so far this season. While Sunday aftern... Full Story

For the second straight series, the Kings earned three of a possible four points. That’s a playoff pace. When you look at all of the things the Kings felt they did not do well on Monday – slow start, turnovers leading to goals, shorthanded goal against – they bounced back on all of the above, and... Full Story

If you watched the two games between the Kings and Blues, you’d likely have expected a split. You would have expected the Kings to close out a hard-fought victory on Friday evening, followed by a Blues response victory, powered by three first-period goals on Saturday. That’s not how hockey works ... Full Story

I think Gabriel Vilardi put it best last night – “This one kind of sucks, honestly.” The Kings were on the high end of a heavily-tilted shots on goal count, a heavily tilted Corsi, and led in almost every category you can quantify except for one – goals scored. The Arizona Coyotes won the game... Full Story

As I sat down to write this article, I found myself struggling to separate the 0-1-1 series in Minnesota from the 4-1-1 road trip as a whole. The Kings earned nine of a possible 12 points from their longest road trip of the 2020-21 season, and that’s a really good thing. Just one of those points, ho... Full Story

Six wins, six different lineups. Sometimes, when a team gets hot and goes on a winning streak, you can point to consistency in a lineup as a driving factor, with teams gelling as set lines across an extended stretch. That hasn’t necessarily been the case for the LA Kings. From the group that... Full Story