The Los Angeles Kings are eyeing a seed in what would be their first placement in a Stanley Cup Playoff series in eight years. With the likes of some quality home grown talent, and proper developement the future is looking brighter for the team from Tinseltown.
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Are the Kings better with their two additions [...]
Prior to the 2010 Olympic games, the New Jersey Devils became the lucky recipients of Russian sniper Ilya Kovalchuk in a major trade with the Atlanta Thrashers. Once the NHL season resumed at the beginning of this week, most speculated that there wasn’t going to be too much on the market due to heavily contested [...]
By Jon Gabrielle, Stars correspondent
Far be it for me to have to be the purveyor of doom and gloom, but the Dallas Stars are facing a daunting challenge if they are to make this years playoffs.
With two untimely, if not completely unacceptable losses coming out of the Olympic break…the future indeed, does not look bright.
Without [...]
The Anaheim Ducks are locked and loaded for the playoffs.
With the trade deadline now in the past, it’s safe to assume that General Manager Bob Murray has prepared the club for a playoff push with the trades that he did, and more importantly, didn’t make.
By not trading any of the veterans on the roster like [...]
Call it a quack attack.
The Anaheim Ducks are one of the few NHL teams that have such a presence at the Vancouver Olympic tournament. There are currently 7 players from the Ducks roster that are participating in the games. The trio of Ryan Getzlaf, Corey Perry and Scott Niedermayer are playing for the host country [...]
By Jon Gabrielle, Stars correspondent.
Joe Nieuwendyk, the General Manager of the Dallas Stars, is a bright man. Anyone who has spent any amount of time with him, myself included, is well aware that this is as articulate an executive as one will find in any sport. An Ivy League education at Cornell University can have [...]
By Jon Gabrielle, Stars correspondent
Mike Modano may not have been selected to represent his country for a fourth time at the upcoming winter Olympics in Vancouver, but the 20 year veteran has no qualms about his spot on the Stars roster.
In the middle of a playoff push and with more than a few teammates hurting, the [...]
GLENDALE, Ariz.- The Calgary Flames earned points but not victories in back-to-back shootout losses to the Dallas Stars Wednesday and the Phoenix Coyotes Thursday.
Dallas’s Alex Auld and Phoenix’s Ilyz Bryzgalov each continued the reign of terror opposing goalies have inflicted on the anemic Flames. Dallas coach Marc Crawford told the Associated Press that Auld “won [...]
As the Kings prepare for a huge contest at Detroit, where the Red Wings trail the Kings by just one point in the Western Conference standings, controversy swirls among the LA ranks. For those of you who may not have heard; Kings GM Dean Lombardi made some disparaging remarks about the University of Michigan hockey [...]
