On the eve of Unrestricted Free Agency, it can feel like Christmas morning is just around the corner for legions of hockey fans around North America. Salary caps and long-term planning be damned, throw it all out the window and acquire the biggest, shiniest toy you can acquire to help your team, right? Wrong. While […]
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FAN VOTE: Final Matchup Set in Reverse Retro Cup
After more than 10,000 total votes throughout the tournament, it’s all come down to this. We started with all 31 of the NHL’s new Reverse Retro jerseys; through fan voting, we identified the top 16. They were then placed into a playoff bracket, where they were seeded by the number of votes received. And now […]
FAN VOTE: Conference Finals Set in Reverse Retro Cup
Things are heating up in the race to determine a winner in the Reverse Retro Cup. After more than 1,200 total votes were cast, our readers have selected four jerseys will square off in the Eastern and Western Conference Finals. Once again, most of the matchups in Round 2 were won by a significant margin, […]
2019 NHL Draft Preview: Dylan Cozens, WHL Center
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 […]
One-on-One: Mike Futa on Sekera and Dealing Prospects
We continue our ongoing coverage of L.A.’s trade with Carolina by checking in with Mike Futa, Kings Vice President of Hockey Operations. As noted in our initial article following breaking the trade on twitter, Futa and the 28-year-old defenseman have a history together, going back to their days in the Ontario Hockey League. Here are […]