Hockey teams typically take on an identity, and each season new characteristics of a particular team may emerge. If the 2022-23 Kings are anything at this point, it’s consistent. Through the first 29 games, they seem to trade wins and losses back and forth on a fairly regular basis. With two games down in a […]
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Projected Lineup, Game 10: LA Kings vs. Toronto Maple Leafs, Kupari Recalled
Saturday’s mid-day (late afternoon?) game vs. the visiting Toronto Maple Leafs comes with many questions on the LA side. First and foremost, will the Kings players respond to coach Todd McLellan’s recent postgame comments, where he implored them to stop utilizing a run-and-gun style offense? While that remains to be seen, one thing appears to […]
Updated Projected Lineup: LA Kings vs. Toronto Maple Leafs in Game 19
Sometimes, the pregame stories write themselves — and this appears to be one of those days. In January 2019, defenseman Jake Muzzin was traded to Toronto in exchange for two prospects (Carl Grundstrom, Sean Durzi) and a first round draft pick (which became Toby Bjornfot). When the Leafs and Kings faceoff on Wednesday, the final […]
Projected Lineup: LA Kings vs. Toronto Maple Leafs in Game 12
With four straight wins on their recent homestand, the Kings have pulled their record up to an NHL .500, with a 5-5-1 showing after 11 games. Carl Grundstrom, originally drafted by the Maple Leafs and later acquired by the Kings in a deal that sent Jake Muzzin to Toronto, will return to town for only […]
LA Kings Training Camp, Day Four – Todd McLellan Quotes
Thoughts from Kings coach Todd McLellan on Monday, January 4 On if any young players have impressed him thus far Well they all have in their own way. Everybody’s at a different place. So when you think of youth, you think of Tyler Madden for example, showing up for his first time in a training […]