Posts About "Tanner Pearson"
Preview: Kings & Blues Try to Rebound in L.A.
January 12th, 2017 Staples Center will host two teams looking to rebound from losses on home ice on Thursday night. The Los Angeles Kings, who lost to the Dallas Stars in Los Angeles on Monday, will host the St. Louis Blues, who lost to the Boston Bruins in St. Louis on Tuesday. In the Blues' last game, Brad Marchand and David Pastrnak each had a...
Preview: Kings & Stars End Season Series in L.A.
January 9th, 2017 The Los Angeles Kings will host the Dallas Stars on Monday night for the final meeting of the 2016-17 season between the two Western Conference teams. This will be the first meeting between the two teams in Los Angeles after playing the first two games in Dallas. The two teams have split the season series up to this point with both...
Recap: Kings Calm the Wild
January 8th, 2017 The Los Angeles Kings beat the Minnesota Wild 4-3 in overtime on Saturday and avoided losing a second consecutive home game in the process. Los Angeles needed extra time but they were able walk away with two points for the first time during their current seven-game home stand. They were shut out by the Detroit Red Wings on Thursday...
Preview: Kings Try to Rebound and Tame the Wild
January 7th, 2017 The Los Angeles Kings will try to avoid losing back-to-back games when they host the Minnesota Wild Saturday afternoon. The Kings opened a seven-game homestand against the Detroit Red Wings on Thursday night. They stumbled out of the gate and allowed three goals in the game's first period, which coupled with a 34-save performance by...
Preview: Kings Start 7-Game Home Stand Against Detroit
January 5th, 2017 The Los Angeles Kings will try to win their third consecutive game when they host the Detroit Red Wings later tonight. This will be the first of a seven-game home stand for the Kings who will not play a game away from Staples Center until Jan. 21 when they visit the New York Islanders. They are coming off back-to-back victories over...
Recap: Kings Snap 3-Game Skid, Beat San Jose
January 1st, 2017 The Los Angeles Kings beat the San Jose Sharks 3-2 on the last night of 2016. The win snapped a three-game losing streak for Los Angeles and was the first loss in four games for San Jose. Having played their last nine games away from Staples Center, this was the first home game in three weeks for the Kings. During the trip, they...
Lessons from Kings' 9-Game Road Trip
December 30th, 2016 The Los Angeles Kings are back in California on Saturday and will play their first game at Staples Center in three weeks. Since Dec. 10, they have played nine consecutive games on the road and will return to Los Angeles for their first home game since, when they play the San Jose Sharks on New Year's Eve. You can learn a lot from a...
Kings Survive A Rocky October
October 31st, 2016 The 2016-17 season has been rough for the Los Angeles Kings. For the Kings, the season is only nine games old and Los Angeles find themselves sitting in sixth place in the Pacific Division, and outside of the Western Conference's last playoff picture. Luckily for Los Angeles, the NHL season is a marathon and not a sprint. They are...
Puck Possession Is Paramount for Kings
October 25th, 2016 By most measures, it's been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad month for the Los Angeles Kings. On October 6, veteran winger Marian Gaborik was placed on injured reserve, courtesy of a broken foot suffered while playing for Team Europe at the World Cup of Hockey in September. One week later, star goaltender Jonathan Quick...
The Kings' Start Isn't as Bad as It Looks
October 18th, 2016 0-2. Two games, three goals scored, two dispiriting losses. Jeff Carter doesn't have a point. Devin Setoguchi, Teddy Purcell, and Dustin Brown haven't reached the score sheet either. Carter, Purcell, Matt Greene, Derek Forbort and Trevor Lewis are minus-2 or worse. Jeff Zatkoff is 0-2 with a save percentage of .891. Adding injury...
Chronic Challenges Looming for Kings - Part 2
October 18th, 2016 Commentators have speculated the Los Angeles Kings’ puck-possession style is out-of-date. Others say they're too big, too slow and too defensive. In part one of this article, I talked about the Kings’ vulnerability to the penalty kill and how their high number of penalties contradict their puck-possession identity. How can they...
Quick Injury Casts Shadow Over Loss
October 13th, 2016 The puck dropped on the 2016-17 NHL season on Wednesday night and there were four games on tap for NHL fans to finally quench their thirst. Among the group of games was the first meeting of the season between the Los Angeles Kings and San Jose Sharks. Broadcasted nationally on NBC Sports Network as a part of the network's "Wednesday...
3 Questions Facing the Kings
October 7th, 2016 Only two preseason games separate the Los Angeles Kings from the start of the 2016-17 season. The Kings will play their final two tune-up games against the Dallas Stars and Colorado Avalanche at the new T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. As the Kings wrap things up in the desert let's take a look at some of the questions waiting for...
