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The Los Angeles Kings Have Cleaned House
The day after they ended the 2016-17 season with an overtime loss to their crosstown rivals in Anaheim, the Los Angeles Kings announced that they had fired head coach Darryl Sutter and longtime GM Dean Lombardi and promoted a pair of Hall of Famers. Rob Blake will replace Lombardi and Luc Robitaille...
Hockey Players Scuffle, Serve Penalties, Leave Box, Immediately Fight For Real
Kings winger Jarome Iginla and Oilers forward Patrick Maroon finished the first period of Monday’s game with matching minor penalties for roughing, after the two got into a shoving match near the Los Angeles goal. Iginla and Maroon were able to stew over the course of a full intermission, so when th...
The Ben Bishop Trade Is Startlingly Smart
The first reactions to Sunday’s Ben Bishop trade were naturally along the lines of What the hell? Bishop, probably the best goalie in Tampa Bay Lightning history, is headed to a Kings team that only the day before got back its own franchise goalie, Jonathan Quick, after a four-month injury rehab. Bu...
The Grate One
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How The Sharks' Power Play Will Bite You From Any Angle
If you had the entire NHL to draft from, you might not be able to construct a more logical top power-play unit than the one the Sharks can ice every night. Maybe not the “best”—third best in the NHL this year, though—but there’s not another that’s so well-defined, that offers such weapons from every...
Ducks And Kings Get Into A Very Testy First Period Line Brawl
There’s something oddly hypnotic about watching these three pairs of hockey guys wail on each other all at the same time, in near-perfect harmony....
Report: Los Angeles Kings Prospect Charged With Attempted Strangulation Of His Girlfriend
Manchester Monarchs goalie Patrik Bartosak—who was selected by the Los Angeles Kings in the fifth round of the 2013 draft—was charged Tuesday with 12 different domestic violence-related charges, according to the Union Leader....
Kings' Tyler Toffoli Punks Sharks Goalie
For hockey fans who want a highlight in the non-McDavid, non-Eichel category, check out Kings center Tyler Toffoli working around Sharks goalie Martin Jones for a goal in Thursday’s game. That looked much easier than it actually was....
Slava Voynov, In Immigration Custody, Says He Will Voluntarily Return To Russia
Two weeks ago Los Angeles Kings defenseman Slava Voynov completed a 90-day sentence (though he ultimately served just under 60 days) after pleading no contest to domestic violence charges. Upon his release from jail, Voynov was immediately scooped into custody by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enf...
Kings' Slava Voynov Pleads No Contest, Sentenced To 90 Days In Jail
Los Angeles Kings defenseman Slava Voynov was in Los Angeles Superior Court today to take a plea deal for his felony count of corporal injury to spouse with great bodily injury from the Oct. 19 alleged assault on his wife. Voynov pleaded no contest in order to reduce jail time, though he still could...
Report: Mike Richards Stopped At Canadian Border With Oxycodone
According to TMZ, former Kings center Mike Richards was stopped at the Canadian border two weeks ago and “questioned about oxycodone pills,” but has not been charged with any crime. (Update: According to the Winnipeg Sun, Richards was arrested at the border.) Rumors and allegations of substance abus...
Kings Terminate Mike Richards's Contract Under Mysterious Circumstances
The offseason hits are piling up for the Los Angeles Kings. Four days after center Jarret Stoll pleaded out his case after being arrested in Vegas for possession of ecstasy and coke, the Kings have terminated center Mike Richards’s contract for a “material breach.” Here’s the full, terse, statement:...
The Boston Bruins Are Just Doing Whatever The Hell They Want
New Bruins general manager Don Sweeney definitely got aggressive with some moves before tonight’s NHL draft. The end goal of those actions is still unclear, though....
Kings GM Confirms Players Locked Darryl Sutter Out Of The Dressing Room
The prevailing analysis of why the Kings missed out on the playoffs is that they were simply physically exhausted, that so many deep postseason runs and shortened summers finally caught up to the team’s core. It’s a satisfying, unfalsifiable explanation, but the notion that this was a long, unhappy ...
Check Out These Gorgeous Photos From The Kings-Sharks Outdoor Game
The Los Angeles Kings and San Jose Sharks took their game outside at Levi's Stadium last night, and the setup made for some beautiful photos. ...
The Weirdness Of The NHL's First Modern Outdoor Game
On September 27, 1991, the Rangers and Kings played a preseason game on a rink built in a Las Vegas parking lot. Despite the novelty of the outdoor game being dulled somewhat by the various Winter Classics and Heritage Classics and Stadium Series, and despite the '91 game occasionally feeling like a...
Darryl Sutter Uses Every Trick In The (Rule)book To Gain An Edge
It was, depending on your philosophies on hockey and on life, either a low-down attempt to rattle a goalie's concentration with a ticky-tack stoppage, or a completely valid demand that everyone play within the rules. But there's no question that Darryl Sutter pointing out the technically illegal o...
NHL Fines Kings $100,000 For Trying To Sneak Slava Voynov Into Practice
Kings defenseman Slava Voynov has been suspended by the NHL from taking part in team activities since his domestic-violence arrest on Oct. 19. (He was charged with a felony count of "corporal injury to spouse with great bodily injury" one month later.) Today, Voynov practiced with the Kings. That wa...
Daniel Carcillo Channels His Inner Pageant Queen After A Fight
Blackhawks forward and noted shit-stirrer Daniel Carcillo didn't appreciate Brayden McNabb's forearm in his face in last night's game, so he fought McNabb, and "won." Carcillo, a former King, then waved like a pageant queen to the Los Angeles crowd as he exited the ice. How polite!...
Kings' Slava Voynov Charged With Felony In Domestic Violence Case
Kings defenseman Slava Voynov has been charged with one felony count of "corporal injury to spouse with great bodily injury," stemming from an argument with his wife in Oct. 19. ...