Kopitar

                  GAME TIME: 7:00 PT. LIVE ON CBC, FS-W(HD)  (Photo by Harry How/Getty Images)  Los Angeles Kings Projected Lineup  Dustin Brown – Anze Kopitar – Justin Williams Dustin Penner – Mike Richards – Jarret Stoll Brad Richardson – Andrei Loktionov – Trevor Lewis Kyle Clifford – Colin Fraser – Trent Hunter   Rob Scuderi – Drew Doughty Willie Mitchell – Slava Voynov Jack Johnson – Matt Greene   Jonathan Quick   News & Notes: Kings Center Anze Kopitar will return to the line up, after leaving the game against the Stars on Tuesday for “precautionary [...]

Come writers,critics who prophesize with your pens. and don’t speak too soon, for the loser now will be later to win. There’s a battle outside; it’s ragin’. It’ll soon shake your windows, rattle your walls. The order is rapidly fadin’. The first one now will later be last. For the times they are a-changin’ Times They Are A-Changing (Song and CD) By: Bob Dylan (1964) Let’s get this out of the way. I have my issues with the Kingdom. Personal opinion? Don’t boo the home team, ever. Hot topic or not that is my opinion. Even worse? Don’t wear paper [...]

What a let-down. After playing well, and dominating large stretches of the match, the Kings were unable to finish the Canucks off, and ended up giving up points to their conference rivals, the Vancouver Canucks. The game was a low-scoring affair, and in many respects was eerily similar to the San Jose Sharks match the game before. The Canucks came into the game shorthanded, playing without star players Roberto Luongo, Pavol Demitra, Daniel Sedin and a host of other supporting players. Despite this disadvantage, the Canucks played a strong defensive game, helped by stellar play by goaltender Andrew Raycroft. The [...]

And so they did it again. The Kings came out against a team that had beaten them only recently (4-1) in Columbus, and played one heck of a game across the board. Quick was solid, Parse put another point on his NHL resume, Frolov netted two goals, and Kopitar put some distance between him and Ovechkin for the NHL point scoring lead. The Kings jumped out to a nice two goal lead in the first period, on goals from Handzus and Kopitar. Despite having to face a penalty shot from Rick Nash, Quick came up big and easily turned him [...]