With Anze Kopitar and Willie Mitchell likely out for next weekend’s season opener due to knee injuries, many have wondered who in the Kings organization might be called up to fill those gaps on the main roster. After all, for the first few years of GM Dean Lombardi‘s tenure, all the hype was around the [...]
VIDEO: Thomas Hickey scores, teddy bears fall from the sky
December 17, 2012 By
It was another AHL special for Manchester this weekend – three games in three days. Things started with a 4-2 loss to Portland on Friday. However, the team quickly rebounded, posting a 3-2 win Saturday night in Adirondack vs coach Terry Murray’s baby Flyers. So, Sunday’s game brought a chance for the Monarchs to win back-to-back games [...]
Highlights and post-game notes: Toffoli shines in Monarchs in OT loss
November 25, 2012 By
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Hockey players are supposed to experience a bit of an adjustment period when they step-up to the next level. Don’t tell that to Tyler Toffoli though. The Kings top-rated offensive prospect capped off a trying week with another goal earlier today, part of a 3-2 Monarchs defeat on home ice.
Toffoli, originally selected in the [...]
NHL Prospect Profile – Jon Davis with Red Wings’ Landon Ferraro
November 19, 2012 By
Jonathan Davis is back today with another guest column for MayorsManor. Davis, a 20-year veteran of sports and entertainment writing and producing, recently caught up with Landon Ferraro, son of former LA King forward Ray Ferraro. The chip off the ol’ block played his junior hockey in the WHL (Red Deer Rebels and Everett Silvertips) [...]
Prospect Nikolay Prokhorkin headed back to Russia – or is he?
November 16, 2012 By
“Just when they think they have the answers, I change the questions!” – Roddy Piper, circa 1985.
Whoever writes those great Russian spy novels needs to start documenting the ongoing case of Nikolay Prokhorkin. Selected by the Kings in the fourth round of the 2012 NHL Draft, his story is one of intrigue, mystery, disagreements, confusion [...]
Highlights and interviews: Monarchs roll to 4-0 def of Sens
October 28, 2012 By
It was another game and another win for the Manchester Monarchs. After a 4-0 shutout of the Binghamton Senators – their third straight win and second of the weekend – the Mark Morris coached squad now sports a 5-1 record on the season.
Here’s how the line combinations were put together:
Dwight King – Andrei Loktionov – Brandon [...]
MayorsManor Live Radio with Monarchs head coach Mark Morris
October 4, 2012 By
Even with the NHL in lockout mode, there’s plenty of hockey action ramping up across North America. Out east in New Hampshire the LA Kings top minor league affiliate, the Manchester Monarchs, are wrapping up their first week of training camp.
Tomorrow night they’ll kick off their exhibition schedule vs. the Bridgeport Sound Tigers (affiliate of the New York [...]
Lombardi and players help close the book on Thomas Hickey
If there are two sides to every story, the truth about Thomas Hickey probably lies somewhere in the middle.
Kings GM Dean Lombardi was hired in April 2006, two months in advance of the NHL Draft that June. With his first selection as the head of the team’s table at the league’s annual ball for amateur players, Lombardi selected [...]