First-game notes, thoughts
insidesocal.com 10/12/2008 — -- The Kings totaled 13 shots on goal and, wow, that's a low number. So low, in fact, that I can't determine the last time they recorded that few shots. The game-by-game listings on ESPN.com only go back to 2003-04, and I can't find any Kings total ...
Young Kings doing their learning on the ice - Los Angeles Times
latimes.com 10/12/2008 — SAN JOSE -- The Kings are selling hope this season. Hope that players they've anointed as their leaders will guide the franchise out of the darkness. Hope that Drew Doughty and Jack Johnson, their youngest and most gifted defensemen, will endure a ...
Kings sign Kopitar to extension, then lose opener - LA Daily News
dailynews.com 10/12/2008 — It's hard to say where the Kings are going. It's easier to determine who will be guiding them there. The Kings, in the middle of a substantial youth movement, opened their season Saturday night in San Jose, and hours before they took the ice, they ...