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Walter McLaughlin

Walter McLaughlin is a Los Angeles Kings correspondent for The Hockey Writers. He is an avid sports fan, having followed the Kings since living in L.A. in the mid-1970's, as well as suffering through Seattle sports teams' general futility. He has a Bachelor's degree in Finance and has worked in community banking for over 25 years, specializing in SBA loans. He is married and has two daughters.

How the Kings Can Regain the Momentum Against the Ducks

Walter McLaughlin | May 12, 2014

One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals — Michael Korda A funny thing happened on the way to a Kings’ series victory over the the…

Categories Anaheim Ducks, Los Angeles Kings

The Los Angeles Kings Were Built for the Playoffs

Walter McLaughlin | May 5, 2014

The Los Angeles Kings’ incredible game-tying goal in the dying seconds of Saturday’s playoff game against the Ducks was the stuff of pure Hollywood. With twelve seconds left and the…

Categories Anaheim Ducks, Los Angeles Kings

Kings Win Game Five, 3-0; Are the Sharks Now on the Ropes?

Walter McLaughlin | April 27, 2014

The Los Angeles Kings raced up and down the ice from the drop of the puck to the sound of the final horn. They hit, disrupted, passed with precision, and…

Categories Los Angeles Kings, San Jose Sharks

Los Angeles Kings On the Brink After 4-3 Overtime Loss to Sharks

Walter McLaughlin | April 23, 2014

They say baseball is a game of inches. In hockey, sometimes a fraction of an inch is all it takes to turn a big win into a crushing loss. Nobody…

Categories Los Angeles Kings, San Jose Sharks

Kings Fall, Can’t Get Up; Sharks Take Game One

Walter McLaughlin | April 18, 2014

In 1989, a ridiculous series of medical alert television commercials was launched, introducing the now-infamous line “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up” as a helpless senior struggled to right…

Categories Los Angeles Kings, San Jose Sharks

The Kings Versus the Sharks: A Series Preview

Walter McLaughlin | April 14, 2014

If you gulp down a beer, furrow your brow and turn your head slightly to one side, you may have trouble distinguishing the Los Angeles Kings from San Jose Sharks…

Categories Los Angeles Kings, Previews and Predictions

The Single Biggest Strength and Weakness of West Playoff Contenders

Walter McLaughlin | April 9, 2014

About a week ago, I penned a piece in which I detailed the single biggest strength and weakness of the eight Eastern Conference teams currently in position for a playoff…

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The Single Biggest Strength and Weakness of East Playoff Contenders

Walter McLaughlin | March 31, 2014

Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not eliminating our weaknesses — Marilyn von Savant As it turns out, Marilyn is both literally and figuratively a savant, as she was…

Categories Uncategorized

It’s Starting to Feel Like ‘Groundhog Day’ In L.A.

Walter McLaughlin | March 28, 2014

This is one time where television really fails to capture the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather — Bill Murray, as Phil Connors in Groundhog Day. It…

Categories Los Angeles Kings

Jonathan Quick’s Ridiculous Save Punctuates Record Win

Walter McLaughlin | March 24, 2014

Those of you looking for a glimpse into a hockey writer’s mind, be aware that when we’re sober, we’re a strange dichotomy of creativity and symbolic patterning. If he wasn’t…

Categories Los Angeles Kings

Will Marian Gaborik Re-Sign With the Kings?

Walter McLaughlin | March 17, 2014

For some reason, questions like the one I’ve posed in the title remind me of the following classic Calvin and Hobbes piece: Calvin: Hobbes, I have a conjectural moral question.…

Categories Los Angeles Kings

The Top 5 Los Angeles Kings Trades of All Time

Walter McLaughlin | March 14, 2014

This statement won’t carry much shock value, but the Los Angeles Kings have made a lot of bad trades over their 46+ year history. It bears repeating: a lot of…

Categories Los Angeles Kings, Top 10 Lists
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