by Brian Kennedy | Nov 16, 2019 | Homepage, Los Angeles Kings, NHL, Vegas Golden Knights
Kyle Clifford in a cowboy hat. That’s what greeted fans on the LA Kings website Saturday, along with the announcement that it was “country Music Day.” Anything to sell tickets, I guess, but to whom? Honestly, I don’t even know if there is a country music station...
by Brian Kennedy | Jan 7, 2018 | Homepage, Los Angeles Kings, Nashville Predators
Christian Folin of the Kings was back from IR. Nashville was in town. That was the news from the LA Kings on Saturday night. If that sounds like nothing much, then you’re used to this new-look Kings team that has rolled through half their season having gained 53...
by Andy Holman | Oct 22, 2017 | Homepage, NHL, St. Louis Blues, Vegas Golden Knights
What a difference a half century makes. Fifty years ago, a handful of games into the 1967 NHL season, the league’s grand expansion strategy appeared ready to collapse even before it had managed to skate its first few strides. At the box office and on the ice, things...
by Brian Kennedy | Oct 22, 2017 | Homepage, NHL, St. Louis Blues, Vegas Golden Knights
So much happens in the Vegas Golden Knights in-arena game presentation that it doesn’t seem like there could be more spectacle than there is. And then there is. The excitement begins before the game, in the form of a question from a dominating male voice: “Are you...
by Brian Kennedy | May 21, 2017 | Anaheim Ducks, Homepage, Inside Hockey, Nashville Predators
It took almost a full period just to figure out who was playing with whom on Saturday afternoon in Anaheim. Of course the whole (hockey) world knows that the Preds were without Johansen and Fisher. But the Ducks had a surprise loss of their own, Rickard Rakell going...