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The NHL 2007-08 season officially got underway last night with an exhibition game between the Stanley Cup Champion (?!) Mighty Ducks of Anaheim and your Los Angeles Kings. Brian Willsie put the Kings ahead with five minutes to go in the game, and the Kings held on to beat the Ducks 5-4.
Sure, exhibition games mean nothing, but we’re not going to see a lot of King’s victories this year, so let’s savor the moment. Or as they say in Canada, savour the moment.
True, being an exhibition game, the ice was filled mostly with amateur hockey players fighting for an NHL job, a smattering of average veterans, sub-par goaltending, and no superstars. In other words, it was just like a regular season Kings game.
In an oddly-scheduled preseason, the Kings and the Quackers face off again Saturday night, while the rest of the league doesn’t hit the ice until this coming Sunday.
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I think the season "officially" gets underway when the regular season starts.
Good point. If this were an official game, the Kings would have lost.
Typically preseason games pit geographically nearby teams against one another. And the reason for the "odd" schedule is because the Kings are participating in a four team exhibition tournament in Austria next week. After that the Kings open up the NHL regular season against the Ducks in London. It is the first time the Kings will be playing outside North America.
The Kings are fielding a much better line up than last year, I think we should at least try to be excited about them even though we're all a little snakebite from the last several years.
I'm hoping that Jason LaBarbera wins the starting goalie job and does as well as he did last year for Manchester. Then, every time he puts up a shut out we can make a tradition of throwing Barbie dolls on the ice - kind of like a reverse hat trick celebration. It's another Barbie Shutout - dozens of Barbie dolls flying down onto the ice! C'mon there's huge potential there.
Go Kings Go!
Man, is this the guy that LAist has pegged to be the Kings blogger for this season? If so... no thanks, I'd rather go back to no coverage from LAist.
Was there any useful information in this post? Oh yeah... the 3rd comment actually gave me something intelligent.
Kings Rule!
Pretty lame blog. Does this guy even follow the Kings? I too, would rather have no coverage at all.
uhh the kings split the season last year with the ducks 4-4 and 7 of the games were one goal apart.
OHH come on stop hatting on the team, you will bite your self in ouple of months, as a fan i believe on the efforts of the team, we will get there. LOYALTY is what we as fans have for the royal blue..GO KINGS GO!!!
dude... why are you even talking about shit that you know nothing about. Nobody likes you... just accept that.
dude if you dont know what your talking about then please dont share it with the rest of us.
Fantastic articles like this won't get you listed as a columnist anytime soon. Let me guess how many Kings games you've actually been to? zero!
Were you even at this game or did you just read the score from AP and write this masterpiece? I doubt anyone will be coming here for any insight into the Kings after this.
Hey all that matters is hockey is back. I do not have to listen to retards like TJ Simers and JA Adande talk about those trashy NBA teams, cause all that I care about has come back