Hearing Dustin Brown’s recent shoulder surgery was a result of an injury that he’s been playing through for the past 2 seasons and the damage was more extensive than originally thought. Still on sked for training camp. It says a lot about the player and his ability to gut it out
Wilson and Brisson took a brief break from their meeting to walk owner Hasso Plattner (thanks
@KKurzNHL
for the intel) to his car. Brisson and Wilson went back up to continue talks. This would be the longest of the three meetings so far. Wilson and Brisson got a chuckle from....
Asked Connor McDavid about the most and/or creative chirper on the ice...."Drew Doughty is pretty good. He's always talking, letting me know when he stops me. He's one of the best D-men in the league.
#LAKings
#Oilers
10 year playoff drought for LA without a post season series win. the longest in franchise history. Let that sink in. Rob Blake has been the GM for 7 of those. Time for a change
Kings have won 3 of 4.
They have been streak busters this season.
Ended the Canucks 7 game win streak
Ended the Leafs 5 game win streak
Ended the Wild’s 7 game win streak.
Nice touch by Ryan Kesler who has been recuperating back home in Michigan to make the trip to Anaheim to be apart of Ryan Getzlaf’s 1000th game.
#NHLDucks
Cal Petersen
Tobias Bjornfot
Gabe Vilardi
Arthur Kaliyev
Rasmus Kupari
Samuel Fagemo
Akil Thomas
Not a bad group to build upon.
#LAKings
Aidan Dudas
JAD
Mikey Anderson
Some updated NHL betting trends
Road Favs -175 or more 109-41 (73%)
Favs off a win are 409-179 (70%)
Home Favs -200 or more off a win are 125-41 (75%)
Favs vs Team on Back to Back are 144-62 (70%)
The Ducks losing streak reaches 8 tonight, tying a franchise worst. Getting the sense from people I spoke with tonight that GM Hob Murray is going to make a significant move in the coming days. I was told a coaching change that was not being considered in November is possible.
Auston Matthews tells
@Jackie_Redmond
@NHLNetwork
that dinner at Patrick Marleau’s house can get crazy. One minute you are eating dinner. The next, his kids are dancing around naked.
Pacific Division Over/Under point totals from
@BovadaIv
San Jose Sharks - 97½
Vegas Golden Knights - 96½
Anaheim Ducks - 96½
Los Angeles Kings -93½
Calgary Flames - 93½
Edmonton Oilers- 91½
Arizona Coyotes - 80½
Vancouver Canucks -77½
Tanner Glass and Duncan Siemens scrap and then when they get to the penalty box Glass realizes he’s been given Siemens gloves. Check it out.
#Flames
#Avs
We in LA are fortunate to hear the analysis of
@JimFox19
throughout the season. No question his insights into the game are second to none. He deserves more National exposure.
What a great moment for Marc-Andre Fleury as he earns his 500th career win in Montreal and does it by blanking the Habs fior his 69th career shutout and does this in his 901st game. The fewest games by any goalie to reach 500 wins.
#Blackhawks
What a comeback for LA. Iafallo the OT winner. Turning point for me was Gavrikov breaking up the 2 on 1 with Connor and Leon and LA immediately scores to cut the defecit to 3-2
#LAKings
With Miles Wood having a hearing today. The officiating crew from last nights Tampa game should face some type of discipline for only assessing a minor boarding call and not a 5 min major and a game.
Hearing 3, possibly 4 teams in on Jeff Carter. Salary (cap) retention key to the deal. Carter makes just over 2 million per year next year and year after but cap hit is just over 5.2 million
Some random thoughts on the
#LAKings
trading for Kevin Fiala
1. makes the team better and adds much needed scoring punch
2. The
#LAKings
are not sold on their prospects being able to fill a top 6 role anytime soon.
3. If you are a Kings fan does point number 2 concern you?
Byfield to LA with the
#2
pick.
#LAKings
put Byfield through an extensive test having him respond to various videos of his game and asking him to respond to why he made the decisions he did. Must have passed with flying colors.
As we talk about the Hart Trophy one thing to consider is that Anze Kopitar has played 177:15 of PK time this season (10% of his TOI). Kucherov (;24), Giroux (65:11), Malkin (5:21), MacKinnon (22:39) and Hall (7:39) have a combined 101:14 PK time on Ice.
Former
#LAKings
Assistant GM , Mike Futa will be busy on
#NHLDraft
day as he will be a part of the
@Sportsnet
studio draft coverage.
Futa will join me Sunday on the TwoManAdvantage
@SiriusXMNHL
10:40amPT as we discuss the Draft, Free Agency and more
Rob Blake continues to clear house and re-stock the shelves by moving Derek Forbort (impending UFA) for a 4th round draft pick.
Still shake my head though that the Kings protected Forbort and left Brayden McNabb exposed for the expansion draft.
What a sneaky play by Anaheim. Henrique wins the draw and quietly goes to the bench and Rakell goes out the opposite door and has a clean breakaway for the winner.
Not the first time Anaheim has pulled this off.
.
@SeattleKraken
have won 7 straight. 13 diferent players have scored goals, 17 different players with atleast 1 point. The 3-0 win over Boston was the first game during the streak they did not score atleast 4 goals. They have given up 2 or less in 5 of the 7 with 2 shutouts.
41 goals and counting for
@Arthur_Kaliyev
Taking in Hamilton and Oshawa (OHL) action on TV. Kaliyev on pace to join Tyler Toffoli and Alex DeBrincat for back to back 50 goal seasons in the OHL
What a sneaky play by Anaheim. Henrique wins the draw and quietly goes to the bench and Rakell goes out the opposite door and has a clean breakaway for the winner.
Not the first time Anaheim has pulled this off.
A little bit of hope for
@LAKings
fans. Back in 2015-16 the Anaheim Ducks entered the Christmas Break last in the Western Conference (12-15-6, 30 pts) and then went on a 34-10-5 run and finished first in the Pacific Division.
Blake Lizotte on his training routine, "I am pushing my mom's Toyota Camry down the street. I get some looks and people asking me if I need jumper cables."
#LAKings
A look at some NHL Betting Trends. Credit to
@Josh_Insights
for turning me onto these
Favs vs Team on B2B (8-2)
Home Favs with a line move in their favor (13-3)
Favs off win (9-2)
Home Fav vs team missed playoffs (11-4)
Favs -200 or more (12-1)
Arthur Kaliyev leads the
#LAKings
in PPG (4), 4th in scoring, 3rd in goals but ranks 10th among FWD's on the team in TOI (did not count Iafallo). Of the top 199 pts leaders in the NHL, he ranks last in average TOI.
What am I missing here? He should be in the top 6
As
@MikePalmCirca
discussed today on
#FTM
@VSiNLive
one of his more profitable trends to follow is play on an NHL team coming out of the all star break who has already played a game vs a team playing their first game out of the break. Here are a list of those games coming up
Wonder why Kaliyev has fallen out of favor in LA. Surely he can provide my offense then what they are getting from Alex Laferriere (6 goals in 49 games) who has 1 goal in his last 20 games. All signs point to him being a healthy scratch again for tomorrow's game
#LAKings
Hofer gets pulled after 5 goals on 17 shots. Enter Jordan Binnington and
@JeffMarek
is salivating with Phoenix Copley at the other end of the ice hoping for the rematch.
Confirmed teams that John Tavares will meet with this week at CAA offices in L.A.: Dallas, Boston, San Jose, Toronto, Tampa (plus of course NYI). The Tavares camp will also have conversations with 2-3 other teams over the phone and perhaps also meet with 1-2 of them.
6 straight wins for
#LAKings
and have given up just 7 goals in the process
1st NHL goal for Mikey Anderson, Alex Iafallo with an impressive 17 on the year
#youthserved
@DaveAMcCarthy
@ZigFracassi
Good thing it happened during the second period intermission. If that had gone on during dinner us media bums would have been furious
These are not your Kings of the past 3 years. This team has the ability to erase 2 and 3 goal deficits but it wouldn’t be a bad idea if they could play a little or no stress game once in a while
Shocked that Kopitar was a distant third in the Hart voting. Until I see how people voted it’s I will hold back on saying he played past most people’s bed time. Hall and MacKinnon were only asked to play offense while Kopitar not only put up the offense but killed penalties
After 2 ½ years of chemo to fight leukemia, Ducks prospect Will Francis finished his last treatment.
Four days later he is here at Ducks Development Camp, where his teammates and Head Coach Dallas Eakins paid tribute.
In early January, two LA Kings execs told me the hopes were to move at least 5 if not 6 players by the deadline. 3 down and Alec Martinez on many teams wish list the Kings are well on their way to reaching goal. Rob Blake continues to do a good job of restocking the shelf