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Enjoy a free replay of John Hoven on TSN Radio in Winnipeg with Rick Ralph, where they discussed the Kings slow start to the 2015-16 NHL season, which players may get called up from the AHL soon, as well as some of the organization’s top prospects.
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The hockey season ended far too early for the LA Kings, and the five-week anticipation of the NHL Draft feels like forever.
However, with the league’s 31 member teams knee-deep in their due diligence, this remains a peak preparation period for next month’s big event. Top 2019 draft eligible prospects Jack Hughes and Kaapo Kakko are […]
With the first round of this year’s NHL Draft just a smidge over five weeks away, our ongoing preview of the league’s annual prospect-palooza continues to pick up steam. In several recent radio interviews MayorsManor editor, John Hoven, has talked extensively about the Kings possibly trading down a few spots from their current No. 5 […]
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Enjoy a free replay of John Hoven on TSN Radio, where he joined host Kevin Olszewski to discuss the LA Kings, Winnipeg Jets, Toronto Maple Leafs, San Jose Sharks and more. Among the Los Angeles related topics were: Todd McLellan’s new assistant coaches, Jonathan Quick’s future, Anze Kopitar and the Hall of Fame, as […]
It’s often been said that each player to make the NHL comes with his own unique story. And if you’re looking for something a little non-traditional, goaltender Cal Petersen certainly checks several boxes. Among the … [Read More...]
Kings fans are up in arms about the terrible start to the season. Complaints of lack of leadership from losing JW, Stoll, and RR being listed as one of the causes. People, those players were all here last season and THE KINGS DIDN’T MAKE THE PLAYOFFS WITH THEM! This is a non-playoff team we’re talking about. There are also people saying the team is too slow. No, that’s not exactly the case. Some are saying Sutter has lost the room. He hasn’t lost it yet but the players are not as attentive as before either. Some say Jones is better than JQ. No, not the problem. The defense is not good enough. Well, that’s a bit more accurate.
DL is a like an top, big league hitter in a slump. He whiffed on not buying MR out, he whiffed on thinking he would VV back after paying a number one pick for Sekera who he didn’t get re-signed. It appears he may have made the worst trade of him GM tenure with the Lucic deal. Only time will tell. By trading for Lucic he now has to pay Kopi or look like a fool for making the Lucic trade. DL is a smart guy but simply over played his hand. Mistakes were made.
The Kings absolutely need to play McNabb and Forbort now and hope they can both become top-four D-men. If they don’t, the Kings hole is going to get bigger and they may not be able to dig out from it in the Lombardi-Sutter era.