John Hoven is the founder and inspiration behind MayorsManor.com – a multi-award winning site, including being named ‘Best Sports Blog in Los Angeles’ by LA Weekly and ‘Hockey Blog of the Year’ by Yahoo Sports. He currently co-hosts Kings of the Podcast, a top-10 ranked sports show on Apple Podcasts.
As a former member of the Professional Hockey Writers Association, Hoven’s extensive travels and connections have led him to become the recognized authority on LA Kings prospects. Dubbed ‘The Mayor’ nearly 20 years ago by several people from his inner circle – largely because wherever they went, he always seemed to know somebody – Hoven has also covered athletes and celebrities from the worlds of Major League Baseball, the UFC, NHRA drag racing, and a wide variety of musical acts.
Our Other Writers
Scott Coffman
Our Senior Editor, Scott is much better at playing hockey than fantasy football. If given a choice, he’d change our logo to all different shades of yellow. In addition to his writing and editing duties, Scott also posts information appearing on our social media channels. If that’s not enough, he also shares old LA Kings video content.
Alexander Legget
Our Associate Editor is a Forum Blue and Gold lifer who attended his first Kings game at three months old. Alexander was there for every home playoff game during both Cup runs. He learned to skate alongside Jaroslav Modry’s son and played travel hockey throughout Southern California. At 13, he challenged Drew Doughty to a game of NHL 09 at Hockey Fest and lost spectacularly. After years of drafting in EA’s NHL franchise mode, he naturally evolved into covering prospects for Mayor’s Manor. Since then, his responsibilities have expanded to covering Kings practice at TSPC and game nights at Crypto.com Arena.
Andy Tonge
A goalie at heart, Andy’s love for the sport began when he started watching games with his dad a few years before lacing up his first pair of skates at the age of five. As the first senior writer for MayorsManor, he provided daily coverage of the Kings AHL affiliate when they were in Manchester for two years, up to and including their 2015 Calder Cup Championship. Along the way, he also has provided coverage at the NHL Draft, written for The Hockey News, and been a guest on several podcasts. For some reason, Andrei Loktionov is his spirit animal.
Dan Adkisson
Provides readers with ongoing coverage of the NHL and AHL. A native of California, Dan took to the ice for the first time at the age of eight years old and never looked back. His on-ice career includes over 15 years of playing both club ice and roller hockey, a season of junior hockey, coaching and officiating the game, as well. The cyclical nature of hockey and relative shortage of stoppages is what attracts him to the game most.
Harry Ouzounian
Our resident history expert; nobody knows more stats, facts, tidbits, and quirky details about the Kings than Harry. He keeps readers engaged with articles focusing on the history of the players, coaches, and personalities that have touched LA hockey over the past 50+ years.
David Hofreiter
Although born in San Diego, that didn’t stop David from falling in love with hockey at an early age, where he quickly found his way to roller hockey rinks. Long before Dean Lombardi preached building from the net out, Hofreiter was first a goalie, then later played on the blueline and up front as a forward. An Information Technology guy by trade, he began following the Kings soon after Wayne Gretzky arrived in Los Angeles. Through the years, he’s gravitated towards the NHL Draft, prospects and the overall development process. In 2006, he attended his first Kings Development Camp and that’s been his center of gravity ever since. He’s continued to learn along the way, and in recent years has tracked the development of Kings prospects for Mayor’s Manor. Hofreiter readily admits to having a bias towards two-way play and utility. You’ve been warned.
Noah Sher
He’s almost always either watching Kings hockey or talking to his brother about Kings hockey. He grew up in Temecula, yet recently relocated to Orange County so he can spend more time at the beach and watching the Angels waste the Hall of Fame career of Mike Trout. In his free time, he’s often on twitter talking hockey and fighting off the ‘Twitter Donkeys’ from gaining any momentum.
Anthony Collazo
After growing up a Rangers fan — including being on the wrong side of the Kings-Rangers Stanley Cup series in 2014 — Anthony began covering the Reign in 2022. He later joined Mayor’s Manor during Ontario’s 2024-25 season. He still loves the Yankees but somehow was accepted into the MM team.
A Picture is Worth 1,000 Words
Daniel Stopani
Stopani decided to take up sports photography after discovering collegiate hockey around the greater Los Angeles area. In an attempt to bring more awareness to these programs, Stopani started attending games and shooting photos to post on social media. He later joined Mayor’s Manor by first shooting the Kings annual summer Development Camp in 2016, and then the NHL’s Rookie Faceoff tournament in Vegas (2018), which eventually led to AHL games in Ontario and Kings games in Los Angeles. He always seems to have the perfect photo at the perfect time.
ALoImages
From photography to game day graphics, they do it all for Mayor’s Manor. A creative powerhouse that visually enhances our written words.
Megan Sanders
Sanders became involved in sports photography while taking photos of her college track team. She later joined her school’s news team, where she became the Sports Editor. After transferring to a four-year college and majoring in multimedia journalism, she began branching out into other sports more which led to hockey. She joined the Mayor’s Manor team after putting together an impressive gallery of photos taken during Kings Training Camp in 2024.
Thomas Salvatierra
A college student, working on his degree in Photography BFA, Thomas is interested in eventually becoming a photography teacher. From behind the lens for as long as he can remember growing up, this SoCal native initially got into sports photography while shooting his brother’s high school hockey games. He then stepped up to capturing images for Mayor’s Manor at Ontario Reign games in mid-2024.