LA Kings Thread '14-'15

[Kevin]

Sigh*

[Tank]

they're starting to run out of games left to play. a good 5 or 6 game win streak would go a long way to righting this ship.

[Schildog]

They scored first on the road!

[Kevin]

Solid win.

[Tank]

Alex Martinez out with an upper body injury.

Just what they needed.

[Thomas]

Day to day with concussion-like symptoms. 

[disarcina]

nice win against a conference leading Tampa Bay........

 

Kings seem to have trouble 'closing' games in the third period........

 

really need to go on a run here or the Kings - reigning Stanley Cup Champions -- could miss the playoffs -- am sure that's happened before -- where the defending champ doesn't even make the playoffs the following year -- but not often.........

 

of course, the Kings were a number 8 seed last year weren't they?

[disarcina]

Mike Richards was invited to attend White House ceremony but having been sent out to Manchester, declined the invitation.

 

not shunning anyone - but Richards must have felt that since he was at Manchester and no longer up with the Kings, it would be have been awkward.......Richards' choice.

[Thomas]

Mike Richards was invited to attend White House ceremony but having been sent out to Manchester, declined the invitation.

 

not shunning anyone - but Richards must have felt that since he was at Manchester and no longer up with the Kings, it would be have been awkward.......Richards' choice.

 

I would think it is a multiple of things.

 

1. He's Canadian.

2. He's done the White House trip before.

3. If he wants to show that he deserves another chance in the NHL he isn't best served missing practice to go hang with the POTUS.

4. Yeah probably a little awkward too

[nando714]

3-3 on the Grammy roadie

[Thomas]

2-4 unfortunately 

[nando714]

2-4 unfortunately

some reason I was thinking of the Chicago game

[Tank]

it was a five game trip, right? i thought they went 2-3.

 

nevertheless, back home thursday night in a must-win game against calgary.

[Thomas]

[Schildog]

Big game tonight

[nando714]

3 in a row

[Schildog]

big win. not going to lie i'm a little worried about these high scoring games. 

[Angel Oracle]

The usual February move under Sutter's watch has commenced.

Injuries and missing players (Voynov) are a concern though.

[Tank]

what are your thoughts on barry melrose being honored?

 

melrose deserves tremendous credit for what that team did in '93, especially considering how gretzky was out for the first half of the year. finally reaching the promised land of the finals was such a huge deal, and as a kings fan i finally felt like we had everything we needed for this team to finally break through.

 

and then came the corey millen trade a couple of weeks after the finals. the dismantling of the team began.

 

for the next two years, the kings sucked badly enough they missed the playoffs. melrose was fired near the end of his third year, and the team limped heavily for the next couple of years. melrose wanted a team that was bigger and tougher, and sam the disaster mcmaster agreed, and they systematically began trading off smaller players for bigger, less talented ones. dang, for a few years, john druce seemed to be "the guy". they were a terrible, terrible team.

 

how much blame goes to melrose? does it overshadow what they did that first year? i'm not a fan of what he did after the cup run, and think his philosophy did far more damage than good. it led to the team almost collapsing financially.

[nando714]

Was at the gm last night. Another solid win.

Was it me or was the forecheck really good last night?

[Angel Oracle]

The February rally continues on with win #4 in a row.

Everything looks better right now.

[nando714]

Another good eastern conference foe tonight. Tampa.

[halobob]

Another good eastern conference foe tonight. Tampa.

Yeah, I'm definitely watching this one tonight.  If the Kings keep playing like they have been the last couple games it should be a great hockey game.  

[nando714]

5 in a row.

The last minute of the game was very interesting lol

Edited February 17, 2015 by nando714

[halobob]

That game didn't disappoint one bit.  The Ducks need to pull their heads out of their asses quickly because the Kings are flying out there right now.