After a series against the St. Louis Blues in which the teams were separated by more than one goal for only 5:01 of playing time – or 1.2% of the total time played in the series – the Los Angeles Kings are locked again in typical, tight, low-scoring games against the San Jose Sharks. Of [...]
Archive of posts tagged St. Louis Blues
Kings-Blues in pictures
Game 1 “The hockey gods took care of us. They did. I mean, we played a great hockey game. Waking up tomorrow would have been a challenge if we didn’t win the hockey game today.” -Ken Hitchcock
The view from St. Louis
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 [...]
May 11 conference call quotes: Williams, Penner
Justin Williams and Dustin Penner joined several members of the media for a conference call earlier today. Several Williams quotes were withheld for a quick feature that will be posted later in the afternoon. Justin Williams, on the reaction to the series victory: “It seems like, especially after the game, obviously after a series when [...]
Waking up with the Kings: May 11
-What other Los Angeles Kings home memory compares with Dustin Penner’s second period goal with 0.2 seconds remaining? There are obviously high points that capped off improbable comebacks – Daryl Evans’ overtime winner in the Miracle on Manchester, Bryan Smolinski’s game-tying goal and Eric Belanger’s game-winning goal in the Frenzy on Figueroa – but when [...]
May 10 postgame notes
-The Kings overcame a 0-2 series deficit for the second time in club history. In 2001, seventh-seeded Los Angeles trailed second-seeded Detroit 2-0 before winning four consecutive games. Prior to this year, the Kings were 1-9 in best-of-seven series when losing the first two games. -The Kings improved to 13-10 when faced with a chance [...]
May 10 postgame quotes: Darryl Sutter
On the Kings-Blues series: “There wasn’t much ebb and flow in the series, quite honest. It was so close. It was always one goal, other than the 2-0 lead here briefly for St. Louis in the last game. It was sort of shift-to-shift competition the whole way.” On whether the series was “nerve-wracking” for him: [...]
May 10 postgame quotes: St. Louis
Hitchcock, on whether the team’s inability to finish cost the team in Game 6: “I think that’s probably the story of the series. I would say for us, missed opportunities. We had a lot of people play very hard, but didn’t get timely goals. That’s what playoffs are. Goaltending is a big part of it. [...]
May 10 postgame quotes: Jonathan Quick
On where this series ranks amongst the mentally tiring series he has played in: “It’s up there with all of them. Maybe a little more physically tiring. A lot of physical play. They’re a competitive group over there. Every game was a one-goal game. All six of them could’ve gone either way. So we’re very [...]
