With the semifinals now set at the World Junior Championship, we check in with Kings Director of Player Personnel Nelson Emerson to get his thoughts on all nine of the team’s prospects playing in the tournament. Then, in the third period, we look at which players will make the Kings 2021 Opening Night roster – […]
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Kings Of the Podcast: Ep. Q2 with Nelson Emerson, Director of Player Personnel
Why wait any longer? Kings of the Podcast, Quarantine Edition – No. 2 is now available for your listening pleasure. This time around, we have Nelson Emerson as our special guest. We hit on a full myriad of topics, including: his time as an NHL player, being traded, college days at Bowling Green, starting his […]
WJC Post-Mortem: Emerson Talks Fagemo, Bjornfot, and Other European Prospects
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: Nelson Emerson Talks Thomas, Dudas
Yesterday, we published part one of our chat with Nelson Emerson, who serves as the LA Kings Director of Player Personnel. He was part of a management contingent who went over to the Czech Republic for this year’s World Junior Championship – where nine of the organization’s prospects were competing. WJC Post-Mortem: Nelson Emerson Talks […]
WJC Post-Mortem: Nelson Emerson Talks Turcotte, Kaliyev
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 […]