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It finally happened. My last post at this blog, over a month ago, called for a change behind the Kings’ bench. While a small handful of wins – most of them due to Jon Quick’s stellar play, may have put off the inevitable for a short amount of time, the Kings’ entered this week dead [...]

Dump and chase. Cycle, cycle, cycle. Shot mentality. Compete. Heavy board play. These are all Staples of Kings’ coach Terry Murray’s vocabulary. On the bright side, Murray has taken the Kings’ to the playoffs the past two seasons. But his four seasons as head coach have been marked by long stretches of inconsistent, underachieving play. [...]

The Kings had won 4 straight games. Their solid play in all 3 zones had been punctuated by Jonathan Quick’s record setting 3 straight shutout games, 188:10 seconds without allowing a goal. Quick, much like the start of last season, has been the Kings’ best player through the first 8 games and has been in [...]

Yeah, I know, it’s a Van Hagar reference. The goal is to be able to use a Queen reference sometime in June, and the way things have gone through 13 games, that would be a plausible prediction to make. The haters can hate, and those who haven’t been paying attention will look at the NHL’s [...]

The Kings looked like a team playing it’s second game in as many nights for long stretches of the game in Dallas tonight, all except for one guy: Jon Quick. Kings’ coach Terry Murray’s plan to play Jonathan Bernier once a week and keep Quick well rested has thus far paid dividends – Quick has [...]

The Comeback Kids. 8 games into the 2010-11 season, it’s already an appropriate nickname for this Kings’ team – and tonight, as much as ever. The Kings dug themselves a hole early as Minnesota scored twice in the first 10 minutes of the game. But the Kings battled back, remained composed, and got a power [...]

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 [...]

My absence here is lame, and I need to make an effort to keep up with everything that’s happening in the Kings’ Universe! Since I’ve not posted in 11 days, I’ve got some catching up to do! Game Results: Kings have gone 3-1 since my last post. A victory over Atlanta in the home opener, [...]

While last night’s loss in Calgary was depressing, there’s one thing that will put a smile on all our faces: The Ducks are BY FAR the worst team in hockey right now. They’ve been outscored 13-2, and outshot 145-72 in three games. Anaheim is going absolutely nowhere, and Andreas Lilja – a mediocre defenseman at [...]

Poor performance, really only 20 minutes of good hockey in this game. Critical mistakes led to both goals. Bernier was pretty good except on the game winner, but both he, Terry Murray and Davis Drewiske – who screened him on the play, say that it was tipped so who knows.

It’s just 2 games in, but Kings’ nation is already starting to panic about 5 on 5 scoring. I sense line changes coming.

The big question is, if it doesn’t improve (and realistically there’s reason to think it will), how long does Dean wait to make a deal?

Kings have now lost 10 straight in Calgary.

Up next is the home opener vs. Atlanta. Hopefully the Kings bounce back as tonight’s game was an extremely disappointing performance against a team that on paper is far inferior.

Go Kings

JS