frozenroyalty.net - 11/30/2008
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Eighteen games into the 2008-09 National Hockey League season, the Los Angeles Kings are a surprising 8-8-2, good for eighteen points in the standings. As of this writing, the Kings are third in the Pacific Division, eleventh in the Western Conference and twentieth in the league standings...
New on HockeyTalk: Kings’ Improvements May Not Be Easy To See
frozenroyalty.net 11/5/2008 — One month of the 2008-09 National Hockey League season is in the books and the Los Angeles Kings have been pretty much what was expected in terms of wins and losses. But if you think the Kings have not improved over last season, guess again.
Staples Center: Who, What And Where, Past, Present And Future
frozenroyalty.net 1/15/2009 — Originally published in October, 1999, this is an op-ed/analysis piece posted as a response to what looked like a paid infomercial advertising LA Live, the huge entertainment/retail complex directly across from Staples Center. and ahh-ing abo
Press Box Perspective
pressboxperspective.com 11/15/2008 — For the first time since Jason LaBarbera won four games more than a year ago (October 19 – 27, 2007), Erik Ersberg has led the Kings to a 4 game winning streak and hasn’t lost a game in regulation out of the 5 games he started. (Ersberg is 4-0-1 in ...
Lombardi’s Rebuilding Plan Making Unexpected Progress
frozenroyalty.net 1/6/2009 — Frozen Royalty is back with Part 3 from an exclusive interview with Los Angeles Kings President/General Manager Dean Lombardi. In this, the third and final installment, Lombardi discusses the Kings’ player development and evaluation infrastructure and the progress made in his rebuilding plan.
New on HockeyTalk: Kings: December Swoon Is More Myth Than Fact
frozenroyalty.net 12/11/2008 — For many, December is time when their thoughts turn to family and friends and celebrating the holiday season with them. But for long-time fans of the Los Angeles Kings, December often means dread, doom and gloom as their team goes into their traditional, inevitable December Swoon...
Indulge Me For A Few Moments
frozenroyalty.net 2/14/2009 — LOS ANGELES — I hope you will indulge me for a few minutes as I get a bit personal here.
Way back in the late 1980’s, well before the Internet was known as the Internet, I wrote my first game recap of a Los Angeles Kings game.
That was a little over twenty years ago and it was ...
New On HockeyTalk: Teetering On The Edge?
frozenroyalty.net 1/17/2009 — LOS ANGELES — Now 43 games into the 2008-09 season, the Los Angeles Kings are at an all-too-familiar crossroads, one they seem to reach every season.
Scouting the Kings
blog.mlive.com 1/15/2009 — The Los Angeles Kings come into tonight's game against the Detroit Red Wings sporting a 17-19-and-6 record, which is good for 14th place in the Western Conference. The Kings dropped their last game by a 3-1 tally against the Tampa...
Los Angeles Kings: Let’s Put It All Together
frozenroyalty.net 2/28/2009 — LOS ANGELES — The ballad, Let’s Put It All Together by The Stylistics (the title, not the song itself), could not express better what the the Los Angeles Kings must do starting with their next game.
Vastly improved defensive zone coverage, along with solid goaltending from Erik Ersberg and ...
Armstrong's rare goal lifts Kings (AP) —
Yahoo! Sports - NHL News 11/30/2008
Derek Armstrong scored the go-ahead goal in the third period to end a 29-game drought, Alexander Frolov had a goal and an assist in his 400th NHL game, and the Los Angeles Kings beat the Chicago Blackhawks 5-2 on Saturday. Jarret Stoll and ...
Avalanche place veteran D Foote on IR (AP) —
Yahoo! Sports - NHL News 11/30/2008
The Colorado Avalanche placed defenseman Adam Foote on the injured list Saturday due to injuries to his lower back and knee, and recalled defenseman Aaron MacKenzie from Lake Erie of the AHL. Foote, 37, was injured in the second period of Colorado's ...