This final article in our Mid-Season Prospect Rankings series is going up a little later than first expected. We could blame the outdoor game in LA, the Olympic break, the trade deadline, or a myriad of other events as the prime culprits for its tardiness. Honestly, would you even care? Probably not. All you really [...]
LA Kings 2014 mid-season prospect rankings – top defensemen
March 3, 2014 By
If you’ve landed on this article without reading the two previous entires in the series, you’re sort of joining the movie mid-way though. So, you may want to go back and catch up.
Twice a year we publish the LA Kings Top 10 Prospect Rankings. Our multi-part look at the team’s top young talent has become [...]
LA Kings 2014 mid-season prospect rankings – the countdown begins
February 25, 2014 By
As the NHL trade season heats up, it’s always a good time to check in on the Kings top prospects. Which players are moving up our rankings, and how are the overall skills developing at various positions throughout the organization? Those are certainly important questions to answer as general managers like Dean Lombardi evaluate their [...]
Word Association: Dustin Penner on the LA Kings
January 23, 2014 By
Pre-game chats with Dustin Penner used to be the norm when he was in LA, but now that he’s in Anaheim his visits to MayorsManor have been a little less frequent – and that’s not necessarily a good thing. Always a great quote and one of the more honest players in the league when it [...]
Martin Jones reflects on lessons learned from first NHL call-up
January 11, 2014 By
Now back in Manchester, goaltender Martin Jones took some time to answer a few questions for MayorsManor. With Jonathan Quick sidelined due to injury, the 24-year-old netminder was summoned to Los Angeles, making his NHL debut on December 3 in Anaheim. He went on to post a 10-2-2 record with a 2.16 goals against average [...]
So why was Linden Vey scratched in Manchester again?
January 4, 2014 By
Fresh on the heels of being a healthy scratch last week (for not notifying anybody he’d be late returning back after the Christmas break), the Kings top prospect at center, Linden Vey, found himself out of the line-up once again on Saturday night.
Despite the absence of one of their top offensive threats, Manchester went on [...]
UFC 168 predictions: Weidman v Silva, Rousey v Tate
December 28, 2013 By
It’s finally upon us. After nearly six months of build up, UFC 168 will go down in Las Vegas in mere hours.
To see pre-fight comments from champion Ronda Rousey, challenger Miesha Tate and company president Dana White, click here.
Tweet from the night before UFC 162:
Weidman, Edgar, Kennedy, Munoz, Swanson…5-0 w/ those main card picks at [...]
CONTEST: Win a free NHL Fathead via West Coast Bias
December 12, 2013 By
Coming up on this weekend’s edition of West Coast Bias on NHL Network Radio (SiriusXM), we’ll be announcing our end-of-year contest. In partnership with Fathead, West Coast Bias will be giving away three NHL Fatheads between now and December 31st. Each week, beginning this Sunday, one lucky listener will win the opportunity to select the Fathead [...]
UPDATED – PREVIEW: Kings – Ducks Stadium Series jerseys
December 1, 2013 By
Besides the weather, once of the most talked about elements related to the upcoming Kings-Ducks game at Dodger Stadium surrounds the jerseys each team will be wearing. For the last few months, we’ve been tweeting out information as it was confirmed to us by multiple sources. Back in September came word that the Kings wouldn’t [...]
Gasper Kopitar drawing rave reviews with ECHL’s Ontario Reign
While Team Slovenia and older brother Anze continue to gather big headlines over at the Sochi Olympics, Gasper Kopitar is grinding his way through the ECHL. Once thought to be a likely member of the squad his native country would send to Russia, the younger Kopitar took a few months off earlier this year, preventing [...]