Posts About "Triple Crown Line"

Remembering the Los Angeles Kings' Triple Crown Line

December 26th, 2018 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', man. Thirty years later, after having been swept up by an...

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...

Top 10 NHL Lines

August 16th, 2010 Ah... the lore of hockey. A rich tradition of boys calling themselves Iggy, Vinny, Chelly, Patty, Ovi...you get the idea. Good thing we have sports writers to add some color. Hockey lines have been labeled as far back as the 1920s when Bun Cook, Frank Boucher and Bill Cook formed the Rangers' A-Line which was the train line that ran...