Hollywood Blvd. News – Los Angeles Kings Edition
- Updated: November 5, 2014
We like to start our day searching the web and reading articles about our beloved LA sports teams. It’s easy to get lost in the depth of the inter web, but luckily for you we have compiled a list of the most interesting and pertinent news stories for your morning reading pleasure. For this edition, let’s dive into the news surrounding the Los Angeles Kings.
The Los Angeles Kings have gotten off to a rough start and it’s starting to look like they are struggling.
“Nine days ago, the defending Stanley Cup champs dispatched the Columbus Blue Jackets 5-2 to finish a six-game homestand with an unblemished 6-0-0 record. Goaltender Jonathan Quickwas sensational. The trio of Tanner Pearson, Jeff Carter and Tyler Toffoli emerged as the hottest line in hockey. Not even the headlines surrounding defenseman Slava Voynov‘s indefinite suspension after his arrest on domestic violence charges seemed to deter the club’s focus.
And since?
The Kings have dropped the first four games of a five-game road trip. They have looked nothing like the world-beaters of just a few weeks ago. They have been undisciplined. They have chased the play. They have been outshot in the first period of their past four losses by a margin of 51-38. Though the Kings were one of the best puck-possession teams in the league last season, they now find themselves in the middle of the pack, controlling only 50.8 percent of shot attempts at even strength (compared to last season, when they ranked first with 56.8 percent, according to www.hockeyanalysis.com).
The Kings sit in fifth place in the Pacific Division, two points behind the Calgary Flames and San Jose Sharks, and six points behind the first-place Anaheim Ducks.
Their most recent defeat came at the hands of the lowly Carolina Hurricanes, a 3-2 loss to the worst team in the NHL, which sends them sputtering into their final stop of the trip to face the Dallas Stars, one of the most dynamic offensive squads in the league. “
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“The Kings (0-3-1) and Stars (0-2-2) are each riding four-game winless streaks, a trend each coach would like to quickly reverse.
Kings coach Darryl Sutter, whose team heads into the final game of a five-game road trip, isn’t terribly unhappy with how the Kings have played thus far on the trip.
“We’ve played really well on the road. Other than for a few minutes in Detroit, we played really well,” Sutter said. “We probably played better in a couple of these games than we did in our miraculous homestand that everybody talked about.”
Dallas hasn’t won since Oct. 24 at the New Jersey Devils, a 3-2 shootout victory. But the Stars, who are 1-0-4 at American Airlines Center, haven’t won on home ice since a 6-3 victory against the Vancouver Canucks on Oct. 21. And even with their current struggles, Stars coach Lindy Ruff knows he has a tough draw in the reigning Stanley Cup champions.
“Well, we had tough matchups last year,” Ruff said. “We played well against them. Obviously a big, heavy team that we’re going to have to compete hard around the puck.”
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