The Rockford IceHogs of the American Hockey League, an affiliate of the Chicago Blackhawks, today signed Dan Cloutier to a professional tryout agreement. Cloutier is still on the books with the Kings, as $1.033 million of the buyout of his disastrous contract still counts on this season's salary cap... Read More

Jonathan Quick has started 25 of the Kings' 27 games, and he will get the call again tomorrow in Anaheim. Here's what Terry Murray said today, putting Quick's recent stretch into some context... MURRAY: ``This year, his game has been good. There were times, in games this year, that I think he'd li... Read More

Or should that be, new ``e-quick-ment''? Never mind. Anyway, I got some questions after Jonathan Quick debuted new goalie gear for the game at Edmonton. Quick said it's a routine swap and that he will typically go through three sets of goalie pads per season. Quick's new pads are a different look,... Read More

Rob Scuderi is once again listed as ``questionable'' with his still-undisclosed lower-body injury. I pointed out to Terry Murray that after the injury took place, Murray insinuated it was possible that Scuderi would only miss one game. Now he's at six games, and counting... ``Those things just lin... Read More

The Kings' raw numbers on the power play over the last four games have been pretty brutal. They're 0 for 13 with the man advantage, while opponents are 3 for 20. That's a strong kill percentage, but the Kings aren't drawing many power plays, and they're not doing much with the ones they get. Here's ... Read More

Terry Murray said Rob Scuderi is still questionable with his lower-body injury. You might remember that initial estimates said Scuderi might not miss a game... Scuderi skated today, and Matt Greene returned as well. Ryan Smyth did another pre-practice skate, this time with Mark Hardy, that looked fa... Read More

You can call him ``Steven'' or ``Bugsy'' -- and I'm sure he's heard too much of both -- but no matter what you call him, it's pretty clear that Brandon Segal is having a positive impat in his short stint with the Kings so far. Segal doesn't have a point in his three games with the Kings so far, but ... Read More

Terry Murray said Ryan Smyth was cleared last night to get back on the ice, so that's why he skated today, a day ahead of schedule. Murray said he would like to see Smyth skate as much as possible but said Smyth wouldn't be in a full-team practice any time soon. Smyth stayed on the ice this morning ... Read More

Ryan Smyth, who had been scheduled to get on the ice Monday, is actually out right now in a yellow practice jersey, doing some light passing drills with Justin Williams.... Read More

Andrei Loktionov will have surgery to repair a torn capsule in his shoulder and will be out of action approximately four months, according to Dean Lombardi. It sounded as though Loktionov's surgery and Thomas Hickey's surgery will both take place relatively soon.... Read More

-- Jonathan Quick stopped a season-high 32 shots. Quick had matched his season high two nights earlier (30 saves) two nights earlier against Vancouver. Quick has won three consecutive shootouts (stopping all eight shots against). -- Wayne Simmonds now has a career-high three-game goal streak (thre... Read More

Here's tonight's game story, with video and stats. I'll pull together some notes in the morning, but here's a quick one. The Kings, after their faceoff woes in Canada, won 34 of 58 draws (59 percent). Here's the story...thanks for reading! Kings beat Blackhawks 2-1 in shootout... Read More

COACH JOEL QUENNEVILLE ``I thought it was a real good road trip. We got nine out of 12 points in six tough buildings. At the beginning of it, you would have taken that. I thought the third period today was our best of the game and it put ourselves in a pretty good spot. Every game is going to be a ... Read More