St. Louis Post-Dispatch Jeremy Rutherford: Another futile Blues season ends “For a franchise still looking for its first Stanley Cup and still lamenting many postseason fall-outs, the Blues have another one to add to the collection.” -Game story Jeremy Rutherford: Composure was key factor in tight Blues-Kings series “Cardinals third baseman and Blues fan David [...]
Archive of posts tagged News Links
April 30: Tuesday morning preview links
Los Angeles Times Helene Elliott: A look at the Kings-Blues first-round playoff series Helene Elliott: It’s Kings and Blues again, but from a different angle Helene Elliott: NHL Stanley Cup Playoff Preview
April 4: Thursday morning links
Lisa Dillman recaps the abundance of news coming out of the Toyota Sports Center on Wednesday and adds to the collection of Robyn Regehr Angry Face photos. LA Times: Kings consider Robyn Regehr more than a rental Dillman also reports on Willie Mitchell’s second knee surgery. LA Times Sports Now: Kings veteran Willie Mitchell has [...]
March 21: Thursday morning links
-Helene Elliott has the Times’ recap of Tuesday’s game against Phoenix. Drew Doughty, on saying that the goal drought wasn’t important: “I obviously was worried. I was just saying that,” he said. “It’s good to get that off my back. I’m hoping I can get on a little roll now. I’m kind of a streaky [...]
March 14: Thursday morning links
-Lisa Dillman of the LA Times learns that Jeff Carter is a lot of things to a lot of different people. To Dean Lombardi, he’s Josey Wales. To Mike Richards, he’s Ronaldo. To Darryl Sutter, he’s “money”. To the NHL statistics page, he’s tied third in the league with 17 goals. Also in this story: [...]
News Link: Scott Burnside’s feature on Rich Clune
ESPN.com’s Scott Burnside wrote an eye-opening piece that premiered earlier today revealing the off-ice battles fought by former Los Angeles King and current Nashville Predator Rich Clune. I was going to say that all Kings fans should read this story, but that would be selling it short. This is a must-read for all sports fans. [...]
Monday afternoon links: March 4
-Lisa Dillman chronicled the team’s defense of Jonathan Quick a day after he was awfully tough on himself for his performance in Vancouver, even in the absence of the 200-foot defensive help he generally receives. She also asked Rob Scuderi for his take on the early stages of his contract negotiations with the Kings. “If [...]
February 25: Monday morning links
So there’s kind of a big game at Staples Center tonight, and Helene Elliott relies on the never-shy Drew Doughty for an excellent quote. “To see [the Ducks] up there, a team in our division, a team that I think all of us in here feel for sure that we’re a better team than them, [...]
February 19: Tuesday morning links
Helene Elliott of the LA Times recaps Monday’s practice in the absence of Darryl Sutter, who was tending to family responsibilities. She raises the issue of Drew Doughty’s lack of scoring. “There’s no question we need our defense to contribute offensively,” assistant coach John Stevens said. Slava Voynov has been terrific on the back end [...]
February 13: Wednesday morning links
Lisa Dillman of the LA Times takes a look at the injury-riddled defense, which held together Monday despite Alec Martinez’s 1:35 of ice time before he left the game with an “upper body injury”. There will be more Martinez news from LA Kings Insider following today’s practice. Kings dig deep despite injury-depleted defense corps
