It took Wayne Gretzky a full year of playing in LA before he was invited to host NBC’s Saturday Night Live. Darryl Sutter hasn’t even been the coach of the Kings for three weeks, yet one of his recent press conferences made its way into a skit last night… Even so, Sutter’s best presser to date […]
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Robbie Czarnik, the somewhat forgotten LA Kings prospect
Czarnik at Kings DevCamp (photo by K. Spatz) Earlier today we took a look at Kings prospect Andy Andreoff and his possible move from the OHL to the AHL this season. You can definitely count on fellow Kings prospect, Robbie Czarnik, leaving the OHL though – he’s out of junior eligibility. The 6-foot center was […]
LA Kings Lombardi – ‘Kopitar may be the new Blake Griffin’
Mike Richards, Mike Richards, Mike Richards. Don’t worry, we’ll get back to him later – there are plenty more notes and quotes from today’s press luncheon that I’ll post later. How about we shift gears though for a moment… Among the myriad of topics that Kings GM Dean Lombardi waxed poetically about for more than […]
Agent Pat Brisson on NHLPA Meeting w/ Donald Fehr
Some may call him the agent to the stars. Pat Brisson represents some of the biggest names in hockey – past, present and future. Just a small list of clients he’s worked with includes Luc Robitaille, Mario Lemieux, Sidney Crosby, Patrick Kane, Matt Duchene and Anze Kopitar. Although he was was a pretty good junior […]