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Kings Win – On and Off the Ice

October 24, 2010 in brad richardson, hastag battle, hockey fights cancer, wayne simmonds by Jeremy Smith

What a wacky hockey game. Neither team was great defensively, weird bounces were commonplace (if I had to guess, the ice in Denver wasn’t so good). Kings broke their streak of Power Plays without a goal by scoring not one but two power play goals. Alexei Ponikarovsky scored his first goal as a King. The [...]

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At look at the Importance of Goaltending

April 15, 2010 in puckosphereallstars by other

I have always believed that goaltending is by far the most important position in hockey and have claimed it can make or break any teams season. I have claimed that the main reason that the Leafs have failed to make the playoffs post lockout is because of bad goaltending. Many others have scoffed at this claim blaming everything from bad defense to bad offense (which is mostly not factually true) to poor coaching, to a combination of all of the above. I have seen others claim that goaltending would account for at most four or five games

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Another Comeback Win Sets Up Playoff Series vs. Canucks

April 11, 2010 in puckosphereallstars by other

As has been the case most of the past two to three weeks, the Kings did very little offensively in the first two periods. As has also become the norm lately, the Kings played a much better third period and forced overtime – the fifth consecutive Kings’ game unable to be settled in 60 minutes.
In the final minute of regulation, Dustin Brown and Alexander Frolov had a 2 on 1 and a chance to win it. Brown had Colorado goalie Craig Anderson cheating off the post and elected to to shoot, instead making the anticipated pass to Frolov that was

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The Bounces, Can’t Get Em’

March 26, 2010 in puckosphereallstars by other

After a promising start to the Kings’ home and home series with Colorado on Monday, the Kings have had difficulty putting together a solid 60 minutes of hockey. Wednesday night the Kings fell behind Colorado 3-1 before roaring back to tie the game and force a shootout. Kings backup goalie Erik Ersberg was perfect in regulation and OT after replacing Jon Quick in the first period (Terry Murray was critical of Quick and I have a hard time understanding why – two of the goals against went off his own defense and the other was a power play one-timer that

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