Category: 50th Anniversary Countdown

31 Days to Go: How Much Did the Kings Really Miss Martin Jones?

By Eric Kveton | Sep 13th 2016 | 3 min read |

Our countdown to the 2016-17 season continues, with 31 days to go… Okay, we all understand that the playoffs outweigh anything else when it come...

32 Days to Go: The Worst Penalty Kill There Ever Was

By Eric Kveton | Sep 10th 2016 | 2 min read |

Our countdown to the 2016-17 season continues, with 32 days to go. As Los Angeles Kings fans, we’ve gotten to take a lot of things for granted over ...

33 Days to Go: Are the Kings’ Draft Picks Moving Too Slowly?

By Eric Kveton | Sep 9th 2016 | 2 min read |

Our countdown to the 2016-17 season continues, with 33 days to go… The Los Angeles Kings have made 33 draft picks since they won the Stanley Cup...

34 Days to Go: LA’s Coaches Don’t Usually Start Very Well

By Eric Kveton | Sep 8th 2016 | 2 min read |

Darryl Sutter’s run to the Stanley Cup was the stuff of legend. Sutter became the fifth coach in NHL history to take a team to a Cup after taking ov...

35 Days to Go: A Less Heralded Goalie Tradition

By Eric Kveton | Sep 8th 2016 | 4 min read |

What Los Angeles Kings goalie history is complete without those who wore #35? … Actually, a fairly comprehensive history could be told without i...

36 Days to Go: Tanner Pearson Looks to Make a Leap

By Eric Kveton | Sep 6th 2016 | 2 min read |

The countdown to the 2016-17 season continues, with 36 days to go. In 2015-16, Tanner Pearson finally got a full season under his belt. An injury stol...

37 Days to Go: Can Rob Scuderi Be “The Piece”?

By Eric Kveton | Sep 5th 2016 | 2 min read |

Our countdown to the 2016-17 season continues, with 37 days to go. A few days ago we talked about the only three players to play for the Los Angeles K...

38 Days to Go: Remembering Pavol Demitra

By Eric Kveton | Sep 5th 2016 | 2 min read |

Our countdown to the 206-17 season continues, with 38 days to go. NHL fans love arguing about who the best player to wear each jersey number was. Ovec...

39 Days to Go: It’s Not 50 in 39, But It’s Not Bad

By Eric Kveton | Sep 4th 2016 | 3 min read |

Our countdown to the 2016-17 season continues, with 39 days to go… Hockey has a few records that will probably never be broken. Many of them wer...

40 Days to Go: The Three Oldest Players in Kings History

By Eric Kveton | Sep 2nd 2016 | 2 min read |

Our countdown to the start of the season continues, with 40 days to go. What age is the prime of an NHL player’s career? The general consensus seems...