alt="LA Kings Insider with Rich Hammond" />Shots were 14-6 in favor of the Kings in the first period. The Wild were booed off the ice by the home fans at the end of the period. The Kings had been 2-for-23 on the power play before Ryan Smyth’s goal.
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Rich Hammond has covered the Kings, on a full-time or part-time basis, since the 2000-01 season. He previously worked at the Los Angeles Daily News, was the beat writer for the entire John Torchetti era and has witnessed Bob Miller singing country music in a Nashville honky-tonk bar.
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K kings are most def gonna win the cup…it’s not like i was saying otherwise last night…
Boooed off the ice. I love it!
Talk about the domination.
Im thinking I might as well stop watching now cause the Kings are not going to play a better period than that. Minny barely had any chances and the Kings looked like the Globetrotters. I really have NO idea where that came from.
So nice to see a solid period of hockey!! Keep it up Kings
I vote that Purcell be a healthy scratch for the rest of the season. who with me on that?
Lol I CANT WAIT for all the nay sayers and negative nancy’s from last night praising them after the win tonight.
bbb7,
It’s called “they were due.”
@johnny!: I 2nd that.
awesome! just keep playing like this through the season. :)
The Minnesota broadcasters commented more than once that the Wild aren’t playing badly?!?!
Richardson is proving to be a very valuable player on this team. Nice to see the Kings take charge of that period.
I second the healthy scratch
BTW everyone that is able to see the Kings at Staples: I say we fgure out some group event date that we could all catch a game together and maybe have Rich kick it with us sometime during the game. At least get some signs or banners goin for Rich and get on t.v. lol
Ryc, i don’t think the wild are playing terribly, i just think they’re being dominated. None of the goals (except maybe Belanger on the second one) have been utter breakdowns.
Pretty good 20 Minutes of “Kings Hockey”
Might be, uvgt, tho it looks like a completely different team with a different system tonight. Even Ivanans made a good centering pass! Lets just hope their energy level stays high for the whole game after getting in at 3am.
All four lines look good so far.
by the way. End of the decade ends tonight
Gosh deader’s goal in ‘01 was sweeeeet
That was a fun period to watch!
A lot more energy than last night! Keep it up boys!
Simmonds looks the best sense his injury
I’m with you USCG. Let’s all meetup
USCG I can get us a suite for a game. Should be fun to catch up woth fellow fans on here. I’m in.
I don’t know what TM said, but this is a total 360 from last night. Lets hope fatigue does not set in. Purc goes from the penthouse to the outhouse (again). It seemed TM was throwing players out left and right, as opposed to structured line changes. Hey, whatever works!
I sometimes try to imagine what fans of the opposition must be thinking and if I was a Wild fan all I’d be thinking is “We look like a %^$#&^ AHL team!”
…I can’t believe no one on this list is making a big deal about Parse…
Parse is this year’s Simmonds people, wake up and rejoice!
@EA: for sure! We should get a 100% positive head count soon and maybe invite Rich to join us for a couple minutes. That would be an awesome time.
Parse has been getting a lot of love from the posters here over the past month, Darko. Parse, Simmer and Richardson – all of them.
I’m not going to lie, I was a huge doubter last night, and I’m still hesitant about this game. Its only been one period. But I will say the absence of Purcell is definitely a plus.
simmer line badass tonight!!
WHAT A GOAL!
FOUR!!!
ZEUS
Now that was a SWEET goal. Nice passing guys
There goes my doubt haha.
HAHAHA Jim Fox, “That line can be HELL down low!” Will he get in trouble for that?
Go Kings. All the best from 2010 already. Nice 1 st period game after 4 frustrating losses. You have many fans here in Slovenia because of Kopi.
Eh there goes the shutout
Really- bbb7?!…send me a link anytime…!
Not nearly enough love for Parse!!!