I'm good with that.

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Jonathan Quick credits ice and luck with mysterious save - NHL.com - NHL Insider
It had been suspected Jonathan Quick had supernatural powers after his inexplicable save against the Calgary Flames last week, where the puck mysteriously changed direction and bounced away from an open net. Quick finally admitted it Wednesday in Vancouver. "It's no secret that I have mind control," Quick told the Vancouver Sun.

Thursday skate update; lineup changes " LA Kings Insider
oldthunder says: And the merry go round continues. Hopefully we can turn things around against the yotes.

Lakings1420 Reply: @oldthunder, how bout the Murry go round?

I'm not the enemy of line changes, but that's hilarious.

Must see TV.

Better than NHL On the Fly, it's the Nucks Misconduct 3rd period/OT open thread. I always appreciate examples of other teams' fans acting as crazy as Kings' fans. And I mean that in a good way. Two three things I want to note about the following transcript:

1. I cut it down to size and removed all the attributions because otherwise it would be a million pages long. Follow the link for the whole thing.
2. THERE IS MUCH EXTREME LANGUAGE. Which I enjoy. But which might offend some people. You have been warned.
3. One of the commenters points out what is possibly the funniest and weirdest thing I've heard all day: Andrew Alberts and Randy Jones were the 3rd pair for the Flyers a couple of years ago?

Okay, here goes. This thing is so long it defeated the quote box formatting. So just know the rest of this is a cut-paste-edit from the above link:

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A couple of new additions. I know I'm forgetting some.

The Hard Ross Trophy

Philips Placito

The original six:

O'berto La Gwango

Zabba Gojund

Sean O'Donald

Scott Parts

Raw Blake

General Lombardi

Although, possibly my favorite all-time coinage involves the time we were watching rookie camp at Toyota Health South, maybe three years ago, and he was looking at all the 8 foot-tall posters on the wall of Kings greats, in the middle of which is a picture of something that's not a player, and after a moment he says, "why the big jar?"

O'Berto La Gwango

Sean O'Donald

Scott Parts

Raw Blake

Zabba Gojund

and, not a player, but still:

General Lombardi

(I'm pretty sure he pictures him something like General Grievous.)