LA Kings Dynasty

santonioh_43 · 03-29-2010, 12:30 PM

Team: Los Angeles Kings
Season: 2009 Season
Roster: BVH Version 31

santonioh_43 · 03-29-2010, 01:11 PM

Simmods ready to make an impact

LOS ANGELES — After entering the NHL Entry draft as the 61st overall pick, Simmonds has made an impact of some sort.

He was only one of three rookies to make the roster for the 2008 season and scored nine goals.

"It was an interesting season" Said Simmonds "As a Rookie you don't really know what to expect"

"We expect big things of Wayne this season" Said Kings Coach Terry Murray. "He will be playing on the first line".

"It's a great opportunity for him" Said General Manager Dean Lombardi

Even Captain Anze Kopitar had high praises for the young right winger just a year younger than him. "He has special talent, he's a good guy, good work ethnic and overall a great team player".

Simmonds became a Fan Favourite the past season and may push to becoming a League Favourite.

"Going to try and make the Olympic team this year" Said Simmonds as he packed his training gear up "Of course it's team first but being acknowledged by your Country must mean that your playing good club hockey, something I intend to do"

Slapshot
it's team first but being acknowledged by your Country must mean that your playing good club hockey, something I intend to do - Wayne Simmonds on the possibility of representing his Country at the Vancouver Olympics

santonioh_43 · 03-29-2010, 02:53 PM

Kings get off to a quick start, spoil season opener for the Coyotes

0 vs 3

Box Score

0 - 0 - 0 - 0

0 - 2 - 1 - 3

Shots

29

22

1st Period

2nd Period

0:49 Handzus (Frolov, Brown)
3:03 Smyth (Simmonds)

3rd Period

19:29 Brown (PP Stoll, Jones)

1st Star Jonathan Quick, 2nd Star Dustin Brown, 3rd Star Michal Handzus

LOS ANGELES — The Kings came out like Royalty and didn't dissapoint as a strong goalie performence and stellar defense led them past the lifeless Coyotes.

With goals from Michal Hanzous, Ryan Smyth and Dustin Brown the Kings showed a strong performence in their first game of the season.

"We can't let ourselves get ahead of the game" Said Kings Coach Terry Murray.

"It was a strong performence but we need to be reminded that there are 80 odd games left and we can't dwell on just one game" Continued the Coach.

The Coyotes struggled all night going 0/3 on the Powerplay, hitting almost 30 shots but no goals and just about winning almost every faceoff was not enough against a young side challenging the league for a Playoff Berth this season.

The Coyotes kept up with the Kings until early in the second period where the Kings pulled ahead two early goals just 2:55 seconds part.

"It was a strong coaching adjustment" Said Wayne Simmonds, who assited Smyth in the second goal.

Kings Goaltender Jonathan Quick posted his first shutout in the opening month of the season.

"I thought i carried out an efficent job" said the young Goaltender.

It was more than efficent as he pulled off a few spectacular saves that could of put the score the other way round.

But for now the Kings will relish the shutout as they host the High Powered San Jose Sharks in the next matchup of the season.

santonioh_43 · 03-29-2010, 04:00 PM

Kings push for an upset, brush aside the Sharks

1 vs 4

Box Score

0 - 0 - 1 - 1

2 - 1 - 1 - 4

Shots

31

18

1st Period

3:41 Brown (PP Stoll, Smyth
14:23 Williams (Harrold, Halpern)

2nd Period

15:45 Ivanans (Williams, Scuderi)

3rd Period

9:34 Staubitz (Nichol, McGinn)
19:53 Handzus (PP Johnson)

1st Star Jonathan Quick, 2nd Star Justin Williams, 3rd Star Raitis Ivanans

LOS ANGELES — Outshot, out played but yet the Kings make most of their chances.

Even though Joe Thornton went off injured early in the game the Sharks didn't fade away.

But when the opportunity to put goals on the board came they relished only just once.

Again due to exceptional Goal Keeping by Jonathan Quick who again held the Sharks to a low tally.

"Right now our heads are where they are suppose to be" Said Kings Coach, who watched his team convert 1 of 2 opportunities on the powerplay.

It was true that the Sharks controlled most of the game but the Kings executed their finishes and scored the goals.

"It's frustrating to see that" Said Danny Heatley, who's San Jose Sharks fall to 1-0-2.

For the Los Angeles Kings thier final home game before a five game road trip will come against the Minnesota Wild.

"We would like to finish our first home trip of the season with a sweep" Said Anze Kopitar, who has yet to score a point.

"At the moment were doing good obviously" Said Dustin Brown, the Kings team captain.

"A big part of that success is of Jonathan Quicks goaltending skills" Carried on the captain.

santonioh_43 · 03-29-2010, 04:13 PM

Ersberg suspended for drug use

LOS ANGELES — The Commissioner told reporters today that the NHL has suspended Los Angeles Kings Goaltender indefinitley for possession of cocaine.

"It's dissapointing" Said the Kings Owner, who scratched his head before telling reports that the Organization will watch the case pan out before making decisions on Ersberg's future with the Kings.

"At this time I cannot tell you if he has a future with the Kings" Said Philip Anschutz.

Kings General Manager Dean Lombardi hinted that he may be placed on the trade market.

In other news Kings Coach announced at the Morning Skate that 21 year old Jonathan Bernier will be in the net tonight with Jonathan Quick resting.

santonioh_43 · 03-30-2010, 05:24 AM

Kings win in shootout, overcome 3-1 defecit

Game 3

3 vs 4

Box Score

2 - 1 - 0 - 0 - 3

0 - 1 - 2 - 0 - 4 SO

Shots

34

19

1st period

3:32 Kobasew (Brodziak, Latendresse)
14:05 Brunette (Bouchard)

2nd period

1:39 Doughty (PP Harrold, Frolov)
13:54 Brunette (Ebbett, Hnidy)

3rd period

4:04 Brown (PP Smyth, Jones)
14:43 Parse (Richardson, Jones)

Overtime

LOS ANGELES — With just 3 minutes into the third period the Kings did some gambling.

They took a time out so early.

The gamble paid off as the Kings scored vertually in the next minute and later tied the game.

"It was a difficult game" Admitted Kopitar who has struggled to the start the season, yet to still score a point.

"We needed those goals badly" Said Brown who scored on the powerplay.

Another reason to why the Kings won. They went 2 of 2 on the powerplay whilst the Minnesota Wild struggled on 5 attempts.

"We got the goals" said Havlat "But we didn't take enough of our chances, we were up 3-1, we slacked off, thinking we had won the game, then goal after goal they came back"

The Kings did what they wanted to do at the start of the season: Win all three home games. "We did it" Said Kings General Manager Dave Lombardi. "Even without our main goaltender in goal against a high powered attacking team"

For Jonathan Bernier it was a hell first 2 periods conceding three goals but later won the game for the Kings with not allowing a shootout goal for the Wild.

"I was nervous" Said Bernier. "I think I did good later on in the game but it wasn't a very good performence early on"

It won't matter for Bernier as he improved his record on the season to 1-0-0.

Well the Kings? They improve to 3-0-0.

santonioh_43 · 03-30-2010, 07:01 AM

Los Angeles avoid last second shutout

Game 4

1 vs 3

Box Score

0 - 0 - 1 - 1

1 - 2 - 0 - 3

Shots

18

31

1st Period

18:25 Janssen (King, Brewer)

2nd Period

2:32 McDonald (Sydor, Boyes)
19:26 Boyes (McDonald, Kariya)

3rd Period

19:57 Parse (Stoll, Richardson)

1st Star Andy McDonald, 2nd Star Brad Boyes, 3rd Star Chris Mason

LOS ANGELES — Lost and Confused is what the Kings looked last night as they lost their first road game of the season.

"It's not what we anticipated" Said The Kings Coach as he watched what easily was the worst performence of the season by the Kings.

"I'm dissapointed" as he continued.

The Kings offense couldn't get going and only just avoided a shutout in the dying seconds on the game.

"It was bad" Said Dustin Brown, the Captain of the Kings, who leads the team in points.

The Kings only good thing was they have yet to concede a powerplay goal killing off 100% of the attempts.

"Were doing really well in that area" Said the Kings Coach.

The Kings next week travel to New York to face the winless Islanders.

santonioh_43 · 03-30-2010, 11:32 AM

Kings hand Islanders first win of the season

Game 5

3 vs 4

Box Score

0 - 1 - 2 - 0 - 3

1 - 0 - 2 - 1 - 4

Shots

31

25

1st period

2:29 Gauthier

2nd period

11:46 Kopitar

3rd period

1:01 Frolov (PP Simmonds, Harrold)
2:03 Halpern (Williams, O'Donnell)
13:01 Nielsen (PP Hunter, Tavares)
19:12 Weight (PP Gillies, Martinek)

Overtime

4:52 Weight (PP Campbell, Martinek)

1st Star Doug Weight, 2nd Star Radek Martinek, 3rd Star Dennis Gauthier

LOS ANGELES — There is a new broadway in Town. This isn't Broadway Joe's comebacks this is Broadway Dougs.

After two late goals in the third period and a last second goal preventing a shootout Doug Weight rescued his team from maybe losing five straight games.

"I needed to do what i needed to do" Said Weight.

"Win games." said the excited Winger who scored on two powerplays, the only two that have been past the Kings on the powerplay.

That proved to be so as he was the Kryptonite for the Kings.

The Kings did the exact opposite on the powerplay. They struggled having just one goal on seven attempts. "That was not good enough" Admitted Team Captain Dustin Brown.

This is the second straight road loss for the Kings after they started out a perfect 3-0-0-0 opener.

santonioh_43 · 03-31-2010, 08:32 AM

Rangers too strong, brush aside Kings

Game 6

LOS ANGELES KINGS

NEW YORK RANGERS

Box Score

1 - 0 - 0 - 1

0 - 3 - 1 - 4

Shots

27

26

1st Period: 16:30 LAK Stoll (PP O'Donnell, Smyth) 2nd Period: 1:15 NYR Redden (PP) 7:26 NYR Gaborik (Drury, Prospal) 17:02 NYR Anisimov (McAmmond) 3rd Period: 19:54 NYR Anisimov (PP McAmmond, Prospal)

1st Star Artem Anisimov, 2nd Star Henrik Lundqvist, 3rd Star Marian Gaborik

LOS ANGELES — The New York Road trip came to an end. A miserable one it was as well. Failed Powerplay attempts and bad penalty killing killed the Kings in the end. After the Kings started 3 straight at home with wins they embarkaed on a sluggish road trip losing the first three of the five games.

The Kings looked good early on but the magic went to the Rangers who are just the second team to score two power play goals against a tough defense of the Los Angeles Kings. But that didn't stop the Rangers hope as they kept shooting the puck at Jonathan Quick.

"Wasn't such a great performence by us" Said Anze Kopitar who watched his team fall to the Rangers. "It's distressing to us" Said Dustin Brown "We start of so good then we put performences up like this. Damn it it's frustrating".

Whilst Jonathan Quick has had a fine start to the season his show was stolen by Henrik Lundqvist who pulled of save after save and was one of the main reasons why the Kings could not get the puck in the back of the net Multiple Times.

"He's a good player no doubt" Said Kings Captain Dustin Brown, "He stopped vertually everything we threw at him" Said the Kings points leader. The Kings also failed on the faceoffs, something that has been a weakpost this season. The Rangers had six straight faceoffs go their way at the start of the game and had more than 80% of them the entire game.

"It is dissapointing that it came to this" Said the Kings Coach Terry Murray. "We didn't antipate splitting our first six games at a percentage of .500, we will need to rebound in the remaining games of the road trip and try and not go 0-5 on the road".

The Los Angeles Kings will face the 2008 Stanley Cup Champions the Detroit Red Wings in the next road game.

santonioh_43 · 03-31-2010, 10:53 AM

Kings snap losing streak, Wings keep it close

Game 7

LOS ANGELES KINGS

DETROIT RED WINGS

Box Score

3 - 0 - 1 - 4

0 - 1 - 1 - 2

Shots

27

24

1st Period: 3:37 LAK Smyth (PP, Jones) 8:19 LAK Handzous (Brown, Frolov) 12:12 LAK Ivanans (Stoll, Doughty) 2nd Period: 1:01 DET Franzen (PP Zetterberg, Williams) 3rd Period: 11:00 DET Williams (Draper, Rafalski) 19:48 LAK Simmonds (EN Kopitar, Scuderi)

1st Star Raitis Ivanans, 2nd Star Jason Williams, 3rd Star Wayne Simmonds

LOS ANGELES — Coming into the game the Kings faced their first real test of the season against a Winning traditional side battle hardened by Stanley Cups. The Kings also needed to pick up their first road win of the season. They did just that as they soared to a 3-0 lead early on.

The Kings out talented roster wise by the Redwings found ways to score early on. The Kings struck hard forcing 17 shots in just the first period and controlled the puck for vertually the whole period. "It was suprising when we went up 2-0" Said Game MVP Raitis Ivanans "But when I scored and we went 3-0 up it was unbelieveable against a Red Wing side like this, we were controlling the game against a championship calibre team".

Then the Red Wings came back to give the Kings a scare before Wayne Simmonds finished off the game with a empty net goal, the first goal of the season for him. "We were impressed with the first period" Said Kings GM Dave Lombardi "If we play like that, we can beat anyone on the day."

The Kings got better on the faceoffs and did well on the powerplay enough to see them through Detroit, where they will play their final road trip of the opening season against the Blue Jackets

santonioh_43 · 03-31-2010, 05:06 PM

High Scoring game for the ages, Blue Jackets beat out the Kings

Game 8

LOS ANGELES KINGS

COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS

Box Score

2 - 1 - 1 - 0 - 4

2 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 5

Shots

36

24

1st Period: 1:03 CBJ Vermette (Clark, Tyutin) 5:31 LAK Smyth (Doughty, Simmonds) 16:49 LAK Brown (Johnson) 18:12 CBJ Dorsett (Hejda, MacKenzie) 2nd Period: 7:18 CBJ Brassard (Umberger, Commmodore) 9:04 LAK Kopitar (Scuderi, Doughty) 3rd Period: 9:25 CBJ Pahlsson (Umberger) 19:23 LAK Frolov (PP) Overtime: 0:20 Vermette (Tyutin)

1st Star Antoine Vermette, 2nd Star Fedor Tyutin, 3rd Star R.J. Umberger

LOS ANGELES — Blinked during this classic puckoff and you might of missed instense adrenaline rushed action. 2 goals inside the first five minutes and late goal made this game an instant classic for the ages. Even if the Los Angeles Kings did lose they picked up points but dropped to 4 wins and 4 losses.

Both teams combined for sixty shots and the lead changed hands several times. "Was a great game" Said Dean Lombardi "It's a shame we went home as losers but there is nothing we can do about that now, we played hard but they got lucky in the first few seconds of the Overtime"

The Longest lead was just 10 minutes and that was the third period. "We got that goal late in the game, got too confident too arrogant and too ignorant they we were caught offguard" Said Kopitar who has started to score more points frequently in past weeks.

The Kings subbed out Jonathan Quick after he let in three goals in just 10 shots. "Wasn't good" Said Quick who packed his bags and left the building looking somewhat rejected at the loss. "Damn we needed that win and we even had the lead a few times" Said Kings Coach Murry.

The Kings have dropped four of their last five games after starting the season off with three straight wins. "It's games like this that wow you" Said Anze Kopitar "We played well enough but mistakes earlier in the game came back to bite us up the ass"

"We may venture into a trade possibility but were going to explore our options" Said the Kings Coach. The Kings will face the Dallas Stars on their last road trip of the opening season. The Kings haven't looked too good on the road so far.

santonioh_43 · 03-31-2010, 05:40 PM

PREDICTIONS

Early Predictions on Stanley Cup Finalists

Jerry Bighead's Predition
Pittsburgh Penguins vs Calgary Flames

Alfonso "Big" Sala-mali
Washington Capitals vs Los Angeles Kings

Pierce Bullitt
Philadelphia Flyers vs Chicago Blackhawks

Newton Apple
New Jersey Devils vs San Jose Sharks

santonioh_43 · 03-31-2010, 08:36 PM

Los Angeles sign Matt Lashoff from the Boston Bruins

LOS ANGELES — Reported by NHL.COM signed 1 year $1.13M.

Was the 22nd Overall pick in the 2005 NHL Draft by the Boston Bruins.

santonioh_43 · 04-01-2010, 12:34 PM

Dallas get a serving of future Stars

Game 9

LOS ANGELES KINGS

DALLAS STARS

Box Score

1 - 1 - 3 - 5

1 - 0 - 0 - 1

Shots

30

20

1st Period: 2:02 LAK Brown (Frolov, Johnson) 9:17 DAL Neal (PP Ribeiro, Morrow) 2nd Period: 17:04 LAK Simmonds (PP Kopitar, Doughty) 3rd Period: 5:22 LAK Kopitar (Simmonds) 9:40 LAK Handzus (Brown, O'Donnell) 19:56 LAK Jones (Schenn, Halpern)

1st Star Wayne Simmonds, 2nd Star Anze Kopitar, 3rd Star Michael Handzus

LOS ANGELES — Dismantled and dissapointed and dejected. None of those things that had clung to the Kings on the road trip could stop them from Beating the Dallas Stars in a interesting clash.

It was one of those games that you though the home side had the game won already before it started. While the Kings got off to a fast start they put the stick to the put in the third period and ran way with the game with strong performences from the first line particulary Wayne Simmonds and Anze Kopitar.

Even Brayden Schenn in his debut in the dying final seconds managed to clinch a point. "It was interesting" Said The 2009 fifth overall selection who assited Randy Jones late in the game to add inflicted wounds in a bad Dallas performence.

"We went out there and showed them, WHO DEY!" said Dean Lombardi, General Manager of the Los Angeles Kings. "We expected big things from Wayne tonight, and he showed why we want a contract extention with him".

The Stars themselves looked lost and confused and gaveaway the puck too many times as the Kings rolled on and vanquished all hope of a win with three goals in the third period. Two of them came from just ten minutes in to put the Kings up 4-1.

"We slacked off a bit" Said Kopitar. "We knew we had one but the fourth line wanted to show they can score points as well, especially Brayden". Brayden told reports the game was "Exhilirating" but they won't always come this easy.

After a long six game road trip to finish off the opening series of the start of the new season they will now host the Dallas Stars in a rematch. It never hurts to go 2-0 up your rivals who are contenders for a playoff spot. It should be an interesting game.

santonioh_43 · 04-01-2010, 03:26 PM

Powerplay carries Kings past Stars

Game 10

DALLAS STARS

LOS ANGELES KINGS

Box Score

0 - 0 - 1 - 1

0 - 2 - 0 - 2

Shots

17

33

1st Period: 2nd Period: 0:42 LAK Frolov (PP Simmomnds, Kopitar) 10:04 LAK O'Donnell (PP Jones, Stoll) 3rd Period: 9:19 DAL Richards (Niskanen, Morrow)

1st Star Marty Turco, 2nd Star Sean O'Donnell, 3rd Star Anze Kopitar

LOS ANGELES — Six Straight Minutes of Powerplay almost went to waste as the Kings dueled the Stars in a rematch of the recent 5-1 thrasing of the last game.

But the Kings won again, but this time by the score of 2-1 at the Staples Center last night. Powerplay Goals by Frolov and O'Donnell saw them enough to win the game. "They brought it to us" Said Kopitar who assited a power play goal.

"We knew they were out for revenge" Said Frolov, who scored the first goal of the game. "We just needed to do our stuff and beat them" Said Dustin Brown.

santonioh_43 · 04-02-2010, 04:24 AM

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