Posts About "Charlie Simmer"

Remembering the Los Angeles Kings' Triple Crown Line

Remembering the Los Angeles Kings' Triple Crown Line

August 7th, 2017 This post was originally written in November 2012. Growing up in the 1970's as a hockey fan in Los Angeles, I was intimately familiar with three things very few Angelenos had even a remote grasp upon: 1) Los Angeles had an NHL hockey team, 2) said hockey team was named the Kings, and 3) the Triple Crown Line was bitchin',...

Musings of a 36-Year Los Angeles Kings Fan

Not long after Al Gore invented the internet, I started listening to Los Angeles Kings games on a red transistor radio. The mid-70's were tumultuous times. Gerald Ford had just assumed the presidency. Disco was beginning to sweep the nation. Cap'n Crunch's controversial eyebrows-on-hat placement was sparking anthropomorphic...
All the Kings' Horses: LA Kings Then & Now

All the Kings' Horses: LA Kings Then & Now

May 13th, 2012 Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king's horses and all the king's men Couldn't put Humpty together again. Humpty Dumpty may have been beyond hope, but under the steady leadership of General Manager Dean Lombardi, the Los Angeles Kings appear to have finally been built to last. It was a...

Implosion By the Ocean

In a game evoking wild west imagery, the San Jose Sharks and Los Angeles Kings staged their own version of the infamous Gunfight at the O.K. Corral Tuesday night in Los Angeles.  Riding frantic shifts in momentum and the lingering aftereffects of the Jarret Stoll/Ian White incident, the teams staged a memorable battle in game three,...
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