With this article, we’ll officially wrap up our 2020 World Junior Championship coverage. Over the course of two previous articles we already shared comments from Kings Director of Player of Personnel, Nelson Emerson, on the four prospects representing Canada (Akil Thomas, Aidan Dudas) and the USA (Alex Turcotte, Arthur Kaliyev). For the final installment, we’ll […]
WJC Post-Mortem: Emerson Talks Fagemo, Bjornfot, and Other European Prospects
January 9, 2020 By Leave a Comment
WJC Post-Mortem: Nelson Emerson Talks Turcotte, Kaliyev
January 8, 2020 By Leave a Comment
Every year, right after Christmas, a group from the Kings management team heads to the World Junior Championships. Widely celebrated as one of the premier tournaments in all of hockey, the contingent going can vary widely from year to year, both in size and distance traveled. On one hand they were a bit lucky last […]
WJC 2020: Checking in With Alex Turcotte at USA Hockey Camp
December 17, 2019 By
Stop whatever you’re doing. Take a deep breath and see if you can feel it.
That excitement in the air is because in just about a week, the greatest hockey tournament on the planet – the World Junior Championship – gets underway. There truly is nothing like seeing all of the best under-20 players in […]
REMIX: Kings Of the Podcast Ep. 8 with Co-Host Dustin Penner
October 22, 2019 By
How do you make a great podcast even better? You invite 2-time Stanley Cup champion Dustin Penner along to co-host an episode!
Kings of the Podcast, Episode 8 includes…
– Jersey Numerology
– Road Tripping: tales from Winnipeg, St. Louis, Chicago, and Minnesota
– Poll-apalooza (feedback to fan responses)
– Penner on his two stops in Anaheim, including why he […]
Kopitar Out, Can Watch His Son Against Arizona
September 17, 2019 By
Per recent tradition, it will be the Kings and Coyotes in a pair of split-squad games to open up preseason on Tuesday night.
LA captain Anze Kopitar will not suit up, but he will get a chance to watch his son play.
Allow us to explain…
“Last season when [Jaret Anderson-Dolan] made the team out of camp and […]
Training Camp Preview: Five Questions with Cal Petersen
September 13, 2019 By
Fresh off of signing a three-year contract extension this summer, the cat is sort of out of the bag at this point – Cal Petersen is the LA Kings goaltender of the future. This doesn’t come as any major revelation to longtime readers here, as we’ve been making similar comments since he first signed with […]
Summer Check-In: Five Questions with Arthur Kaliyev
August 28, 2019 By
A healthy percentage of our readers come to MayorsManor for inside information and coverage of the LA Kings prospects. To that end, astute readers likely were well aware of Arthur Kaliyev long before the Kings selected him at the NHL Draft this past June. After all, we were already talking about a Kaliyev-Kings connection as […]
Understanding NHL Prospect Rules is a Sport in Itself
August 21, 2019 By
At times, hockey can feel like a riddle wrapped up in an enigma – especially when it comes to understanding rules related to where a team’s prospects can play and why.
Generally speaking, football is the easiest of pro sports to understand when it comes to roster eligibility. Nearly all players come up through the college […]
Summer Check-In: Five Questions with Tobias Bjornfot
August 19, 2019 By
Stop reading this.
No, seriously. Stop reading this right now.
Close your eyes, take a deep breath. Even do yourself a favor – take one more deep breath just for good measure.
We know the struggle is real, but hockey is almost here. It’s nearly that time again.
With the NHL Rookie Faceoff event in Irvine just a few […]
NHL RADIO REPLAY: Mayor’s Minutes on Kings Trade Outlook and Prospects
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Enjoy a free replay of this week’s Mayor’s Minutes on NHL Network Radio, where John Hoven joined host Jim ‘Boomer’ Gordon to discuss a few key topics surrounding the LA Kings, including: which players could be moved prior to the NHL Trade Deadline next month, why Alec Martinez seems to be brought up all […]