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The Los Angeles Kings have firmly established themselves as one of the NHL's top defensive teams, a key factor behind their impressive 18-9-4 record. Currently sitting second in the Pacific Division, they trail the Vegas Golden Knights by just three points. Their defensive strength has been pivotal, as they rank second in the league for fewest goals allowed, behind only the Dallas Stars. However, road performances remain a concern, as is evident in their 8-7-3 record away from home. Tuesday...
When former LA Kings captain, veteran, and right-winger, Dustin Brown, retired at the conclusion of the 2022 NHL Stanley Cup playoffs, some fans were saying that it was a good decision. That “Father Time” had been been calling his name for several years and that he was significantly overpaid since 2016. But sitting in the Crypto.com Arena for the opening two games of this season, there seemed to be a void, a sense of loss not seeing #23 out on the ice, a presence that was felt for all of his...
The LA Kings are making a strong push for the playoffs and coming down the final stretch with a handful of games left in the regular season. But unfortunately, they're having to do so without veteran defenseman and assistant captain Drew Doughty, which seemed to somewhat dash the Kings hopes of ending an absence from the postseason the last three seasons. The bad news is, he is on the shelf for the remainder of the season after undergoing successful surgery on his wrist. The good news is, he is...
Expansion team, the Seattle Kraken, made their first visit to play the Los Angeles Kings at Crypto.com Arena on Saturday, but something else unfolded that was the highlight of the night. Kings 21-year-old rookie defenseman, Jordan Spence, scored his first NHL goal to help his team beat the Kraken 4-2. He scored late in the second period of his ninth NHL game (debut was March 10, 2022). It was a shot from the right side at the blue line, a gorgeous, hard wrist shot that made its way through a...
Los Angeles Kings forward Brendan Lemieux is a chip off the old block. His dad, Claude, a four-time Stanley Cup champion, was a skillful offensive threat and also a notorious pest and agitator. But there was a time when Claude wanted to steer his son, the aggressive 25 year old winger for the Kings, away from pursuing playing hockey. "I just thought it would be really hard for the son of a dad that played to follow in your father's footsteps," Claude, now 56, said. "Number one, I think it could...
Los Angeles Kings veteran defenseman Drew Doughty was recognized for playing in his 1,000th regular-season game in a pregame ceremony versus the Edmonton Oilers on Tuesday. The Kings fell to the Oilers 5-2, but the highlight of the night at Crypto.com Arena was Doughty’s great accomplishment. The Kings alternate captain became the 359th player in NHL history to reach the milestone on Jan. 27 versus the New York Islanders at UBS Arena. Doughty is the first player from the 2008 draft to do so. ...
The LA Kings hockey team, 19-13-5 (third place in the Pacific Division), is surging right now, seemingly rising like a Phoenix from the ashes, as they are riding on a three-game win-streak with two of those wins against elite teams - the New York Rangers and Pittsburgh Penguins - at their newly-named home, Crypto.com Arena. But the other good news is that Canadian center Quinton Byfield, 19 and of Jamaican descent, the Kings second overall pick in the 2020 NHL Draft, is now back on the ice and...
LA Kings veteran defenseman Drew Doughty is back on the active roster, ahead of schedule, after having spent about six weeks on the shelf with an injury to his knee. Doughty suffered the injury, the first most-concerning one in his 14-season career, during a knee-to-knee collision with Dallas Stars defenseman Jani Hakanpaa on October 22. It was appropriate that his first game back in the lineup was against their arch-rival the Anaheim Ducks in The Freeway-Faceoff on November 30. The Kings lost...
The LA Kings hockey team has been experiencing somewhat of a surge in their performance and in the standings, climbing out of the cellar in the Pacific Division to start the season, to now occupying fifth place in the division with a record of 8-7-3. One of the key variables to their success has been 25-year-old Swedish left-winger Adrian Kempe. As it stands right now, after 18 games, he's netted seven goals, and assisted on four, for a total of 11 points. That gives him the third spot on the Ki...
Los Angeles Kings veteran goalie and future Hall of Fame candidate, Jonathan Quick, is reportedly drawing interest as the April 12 trade deadline approaches, and it is feeling like his days might be numbered in a Kings uniform. Due to the trade deadline, the Seattle expansion draft, or possibly an offseason transaction, he is not likely to finish out the remainder of his contract with the Kings. Fans want to cling to all of Quick's past accolades, but this is a business and the Kings decision-ma...
Rob Blake, Los Angeles Kings Vice President and General Manager, made an announcement that they signed defenseman Matt Roy to a three-year contract extension with an average annual value of $3,150,000. A nice raise from the league minimum of $700,000. Blake liked what Roy has contributed to the team. Roy, a 6'1", 200-pound native of Detroit, Michigan, was selected in the seventh round (194th overall) by the Kings during the 2015 NHL Draft. That came after his first season at Michigan Tech where...
The spark for the LA Kings hockey team has finally ignited the flame as they had a six-game win streak up until a loss to the Minnesota Wild last night. Only one other team in the NHL had the same win streak. During that winning streak, the Kings outscored their opponents 22-7 which makes head coach Todd McLellan happy, since he's been wanting more scoring from his team in order to have success this season. McLellan has been making changes, tweaking, and making improvements with his team since...
Drew Doughty, the LA Kings' future hockey Hall of Famer, and, at the height of his career, one of the elite defensemen in the NHL, has unfortunately seen a decline in his performance over the past two seasons. So sub-standard that many fans were ready to give up on him heading into the 56-game, COVID-19-shortened, 2020-21 season. The timing of his decline is quite interesting and maybe just coincidental. Doughty signed an enormous eight-year contract extension with the Kings in July of 2018 for...
The Los Angeles Kings opened up their 56-game, COVID-19-shortened, 2020-21 season with a 4-3 overtime loss to the Minnesota Wild at STAPLES Center. With no fans in attendance, recorded crowd-sounds were pumped into the arena to simulate the reactions of the fans, especially during eventful moments. i.e. a great save, a goal, etc. A very surreal atmosphere. Since the NHL disallowed preseason games this year, this first game of the regular season might be considered the Kings "preseason" game, a...
Los Angeles Kings two-time Stanley Cup champion goalie, Jonathan Quick, seems to have now turned the corner after a rough start to the season. He has permitted two goals or fewer in five of his last seven starts. Head coach Todd McLellan, in his first season as skipper of the Kings, never lost faith in his 33-year-old goalkeeper. McLellan will never forget how the Kings completed a memorable comeback in the 2014 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs, becoming the fourth team ever to rally from a 3-0 series d...
From being called up to the Los Angeles Kings, to being down with the Ontario Reign, and now back up with the Kings, 22-year old right-winger Matt Luff is working to make his name permanent on the Kings roster. Luff has a natural gift, a natural instinct about where to be on the ice and how to play the game. He knows how to be strong along the boards and get himself into scoring positions. Head coach Todd McLellan has high hopes for Luff, and Luff knows what he'll have to do to make it in the...
Alec Martinez, Los Angeles Kings veteran defenseman and two-time Stanley Cup champion in 2012 and 2014, sustained an injury to his right wrist in the third period of the Kings' 4-3 overtime loss to the San Jose Sharks on Monday night. Martinez dove toward a loose puck around the Kings' net and the skate of Sharks defenseman Erik Karlsonn lacerated his wrist, causing damage to his radial artery and two superficial radial nerves. He left the game immediately and subsequently underwent successful s...
