Kings

There’s simply not enough bad things to say about the Los Angeles Kings right now. A loss to the Carolina Hurricanes at a time when they absolutely have to prove to their fans and critics (most times one in the same) that they still have the passion that it takes to win in the NHL. Anze Kopitar scored a goal. He scored it early in the first period. He scored it on the power play early in the first period. That’s it. Really, that’s all there is to write about. Everything else is stats and things that nobody cares about. I was wrong when I [...]

The Los Angeles Kings take on the Carolina Hurricanes today, less than 24 hours after they got off the ice in an ugly 1-0 loss to the St. Louis Blues. Prior to the game, we have some predictions in what’s turning into a friendly competition among Kings bloggers. Credit to Matt Murray from Life in Hockeywood for getting this together. His concept; get a bunch of bloggers together, get their prediction on the final score of the upcoming game and a brief reason why they came to their conclusion. The results for today’s game are below. Oh, for the fun of it, Matt’s keeping tabs on each persons [...]

You would expect the St. Louis Blues to perform with a slight coat of rust having not played for 9 days. The Blues played an aggressive game from start to finish., keeping the Kings off of the score sheet. This is the 6th shutout the Kings have surrendered this season matching their total (6) from last season, 2010-11.  

Oh no he didn’t!?! Oh yes he did!?! Drew Doughty  wins the game with, can you believe this, 0.4 SECONDS LEFT!!!   Columbus Blue Jackets’ Derek Dorsett  couldn’t believe it and took it out on his stick, slamming it against the goal and snapping it in half. There’s a lot of speculation going around that the Staples Center clock paused at 1.8 seconds for about 1/2 a second which could have affected the outcome of this game. I think we got a lucky call for once, so I’ll take it and celebrate a win in regulation against the  Columbus Blue Jackets (3-2). If that’s wrong, I don’t [...]

After a long 9 days for Kings fans, the Los Angeles Kings (24-16-10) play host to the Columbus Blue Jackets (13-31-6) at Staples Center in Downtown LA. It is still a bitter pill to swallow that one of the 13 wins for Columbus on the season was 1-0 regulation stifle at Staples Center, recorded on Jan 7, 2012. The Kings have had only two regulation losses (10-2-6) in the past 18 games. They have scored at least three goals in five of eight games since, including a 4-1 win over Ottawa on Jan. 23 before entering the break.   This [...]

Hey everyone!   Here are some photos from today’s practice. The practice lasted a little over an hour and the Kings were in good spirits welcoming back All Star Goalie Jonathan Quick. The Los Angeles Kings take on the Colombus Blue Jackets tomorrow, Wednesday, February 1st at 7:30 pm. It will be the first game of February and their first game back after the All Star break. Hope you enjoy! http://www.flickr.com/photos/73372865@N05/

The staff here at RinkRoyalty.com would like to assess player performance through the first 50 games so far. We isolated one player who is playing sub par and a player who is a pleasant surprise. We all knew that coming in to this season the Los Angeles Kings are a talent laden (heavy loaded) team looking to make a statement in the 2011-12 NHL Season, but they are taking “laden” (heavy, weighed down) too seriously. Here are the staffs points of views of who is hot and who is not in a segment we like to call, “Off The Bench, [...]

  Should the Kings trade for an up and coming prospect who’s sky is the limit, rather than an already developed NHL forward? I say it is worth a shot, but who? And what would be going the other way? Another option would be to trade an asset for a low pick in the draft, preferably a lottery pick. Then draft the type of player your looking for to add to the team, a scoring winger. This whole process can take a long time though, and the Kings are in win now mode. It is still good to look at our options [...]