The Official Defending Stanley Cup Champion Los Angeles Kings Thread for 2013-2013

[LBHalos17]

The Kings are also not as healthy as they were last season.  I think they're showing a ton of heart defending the Cup this season.  Last night was a huge gut-check win.

[Angel Oracle]

Genius move by Darryl Sutter to flip flop Kopitar and Stoll.

Kings outplayed them in every category, and significantly controlled the faceoffs.  

Thursday is crucial too.

[ScottT]

Game 3 was the best game ever.  Maybe a slight exaggeration, but I doubt I'll ever forget it...

 

[halobob]

Game 3 was the best game ever.  Maybe a slight exaggeration, but I doubt I'll ever forget it...

 

Damn sick seats!

[Angel Oracle]

Duncan Keith gets a 1 game suspension for his high stick on Jeff Carter from game 3.

[bucbrett]

Just stopping by to say "I will always love you, Dustin Penner."

[Tank]

This has been a very entertaining game so far. 2-2 headed to the third. GKG!

[Tank]

Tough loss tonight, their first on home ice. Brown, Kopitar, and Doughty have GOT to provide some offense. Quick has to find a way to stop letting in some goofy shots - two them were gifts tonight.

[LBHalos17]

Yep.. Quickie let-in some softies, but the boys failed to finish on a couple grade-A chances.  Can't keep a team like the Hawks in the game like that.

[Angel Oracle]

Brian Bickell has 8 goals this post-season, after just 9 all season.

I know the Hawks were the best regular season team by quite a bit.   But Brian Bickell?   Really?  Really?  Really?   REALLY? 

[LBHalos17]

Yep... Seems like there's a roll-player who steps-up in the playoffs (and gets nicknamed, "Connie").  The Hawks have so much fire-power (and he's a decent enough player with size and speed), that he has slipped-in under the radar.

 

I don't like the Kings chances going back to Chicago, but you never know... The Hawks might be feeling some home-ice pressure to close it out.  If the Kings steal game6, we're back to our comfort-zone of home-ice... GKG!

[LBHalos17]

Effing ref just stole the game for Chicago... Ef U NHL and your East-coast bias

[fan_since79]

Kings tie it with 9.4 seconds left!!!

[Schildog]

Add happy as I am I'm so pissed about the trip.

[InsideThePark]

You guys were f'n persistent but no repeat.

[Lhalo]

Sleepy time for the Kings...

[Kevin]

Yeah it sucks but it was a great season. Some weak goals let in by Quick the last two games but overall another solid playoffs for him. Oh well, there is always next season.

 

Maybe we will finally see a Ducks Kings series.

[LBHalos17]

Way to battle, Kings... Great winner for the hat-trick there.  Go Hawks; get it done again.

[Tank]

So many positives about this team. I fully expect them to win another cup in the next few years.

In the last two seasons they've gone 6-1 in p,ay off series, including winning the cup. While I was hoping for a better outcome, I'm not upset at all about this two year run, the best in team history.

Maybe now my brother will shave his playoff beard, which he's been growing since April of 2012. He looks like he should be making duck calls or playing lead for ZZ top.

[Schildog]

i'm going to really miss the thread title. 

 

we're all agreement that penner needs to be back next season?

[Angel Oracle]

Always helps to have someone who comes alive in the post-season, keep Penner for 2 more years.

[Tank]

Keep Penner if he'll play for less. He's too expensive given his lack of regular season production. Maybe he just needs a calendar with only the months April, may, and June.

Rumor is that Martinez came out of his exit meeting visibly upset because his time here may be over.

[Schildog]

i hope it's not. 

[disarcina]

Felt good about the Cup playoff run. Lot of good stuff going on with this team.  Some minor tweaks and back at it.

 

Really enjoyed the playoff run games and the Kings all this (unfortunately) shortened season.  They really turned things around in what become the mid-season point.

 

Our best bet was for Detroit to finish off Chicago when they had them down 3 to 1.....once the Blackhawks came back from that deficit against a very good and energized Red Wings team (Howard was great!), they back to being invincible again like they were to start the season with, what was it? 30 straight games without a loss......

 

Chicago has been the class of the league all season long , had a late season slump that almost carried over into the Detroit series but they regained their footing.

 

I'm for them to win this thing over Boston (who really ticked off all of Canada by ensuring that Toronto would not be representing a Canadian based franchise to try to regain what Canadians think is 'their Cup, their game' despite not having a Canadian based franchise win the Cup since the McSorley's stick Cup finals that Montreal won in '93).  I would have liked to seen Toronto in the Cup finals......these Chicago/ Boston OT games -- while great hockey and fun to watch -- probably will result in some pretty low TV ratings.........US viewership down and Canadian as well -- if Toronto were in it (any Canadian team) there would be focused interest on every game north of the border -- they're great fans.

[Thomas]

Voynov signs extension for 6 years/$25 million