by Brian Kennedy | Jan 21, 2019 | Homepage, Los Angeles Kings, St. Louis Blues
The Kings have to win twenty-five more games to wind up with 94 points. They have only thirty-two games to do that in. That’s the math. Now, you probably don’t want to hear about that for one of two reasons. First, you’re from away and don’t care how this team is...
by Brian Kennedy | Feb 17, 2015 | Homepage, Los Angeles Kings, Tampa Bay Lightning
The Kings got some help without even asking for it in the form of Boston beating Calgary Monday night. Wait. That was to be the headline, and when I headed upstairs to the Staples Center pressbox, the Bruins seemed to have the Flames well in hand, up 3-0 with little...
by Brian Kennedy | Nov 15, 2014 | Anaheim Ducks, Homepage, Los Angeles Kings
Every year about this time, the Kings experience what psychiatrists would call a “fugue,” which is a time when someone suffers from loss of memory, begins a new life, and when she or he recovers, doesn’t remember the period of amnesia. Yes, friends, once again,...
by Brian Kennedy | Nov 9, 2014 | Homepage, Los Angeles Kings, Vancouver Canucks
You know that saying, “Fifty is the new forty”? How about “red is the new black?” What about “Vancouver is the new Toronto”? In hockey terms, that’s just what’s happening. Here’s what I mean. Year after year, the Leafs’ games are played with promising...