Ah, the post-season:  The time where a Kings fan’s fancy turns to June and the NHL draft (at least, that’s been the case for far too long).  As the time draws near on the annual Gary Bettman boo-fest — it’s in Montreal this year, so you know the jeers for the beleagured commish are going [...]

So I just found out that the NHL Network is going to be showing the Memorial Cup over the next two weeks.  Finally — some legit Junior action on TV to enjoy.  Not only that, I’ll finally have a chance to see what forward and King prospect Andrei Loktionov is capable of.  Now, I haven’t [...]

So the Chicago Blackhawks expunged the Vancouver Canucks out of the playoffs last night, dashing Canada’s hopes of bring the Stanley Cup back to the mother country for the 16th straight year. This confirms that the decade will be free from a champion from Canada, something that’s never happened before. Now, I’m not going to [...]

A few weeks ago, I was rifling through the sports section of the Los Angeles Times, when I came across a comment from a Kings fan in one Jerry Crowe’s weekly observational columns regarding this most recent season. After the initial shock of the Times actually using some of their space to mention hockey wore [...]

When the list of Calder Trophy finalists were announced a couple weeks ago, I can’t say I that wasn’t shocked to see that King defenseman Drew Doughty was not one of the three finalists.  However, I can say that I was disappointed.  No offense to Kris Versteeg of the Blackhawks, but Doughty was more deserving [...]