Category: Backseat Driving

What's Broken (part 4b): Kings should never have traded Mike Cammalleri

By Daws Butler | May 9th 2011 | 12 min read |

[This is part 4b of a multi-post analysis of “what ails the Kings.” If you haven’t read the previous posts, understand that each ...

What's Broken (part 4a): Santa won't give us the big scorer we asked for!!

By Daws Butler | May 7th 2011 | 90 min read |

I guess maybe you can tell from the headline that my heart’s not so much into arguing that it’s all the fault of Dean Lombardi, who —...

What's Broken (part 3): Mixed Messages

By Daws Butler | May 5th 2011 | 14 min read |

Part One is here. Part Two is here. Lombardi, Murray discuss impending free agents ” LA Kings Insider MURRAY: “Alexei Ponikarovsky is a] b...

What's Broken (part 2): Follow the Leader

By Daws Butler | May 4th 2011 | 11 min read |

Part One is here. Player evaluation: Brown – LA Kings Insider Per usual, Brown gave 100-percent effort in every game and regularly led the Kings...

What's Broken (part 1)

By Daws Butler | May 2nd 2011 | 7 min read |

After the Kings‘ loss in game four a couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post entitled “Is this is pattern.” In that post, I covered the ...

Glass Half Empty Pt 2: Is this a pattern?

By Daws Butler | Apr 23rd 2011 | 9 min read |

2010 Playoffs, round one, Kings vs. Canucks The Kings lose the first game in OT, win the second game in OT, win the third game and are leading at the ...

Glass Half Empty: too bad there's no such thing as stepping up

By Daws Butler | Apr 22nd 2011 | 5 min read |

Quiet, serious Kings prepare for Game 5 ” LA Kings Insider MURRAY: “The series is 3-1. I look at it as a self-inflicted issue right now. [...

May I Just Say I Thought Schenn Looked Pretty Great on the Power Play for the Kings Back in October?

By Daws Butler | Apr 13th 2011 | 1 min read |

I seem to recall he could have had about ten goals if it weren’t for some freakishly weird bad luck on several plays. That is all....

No kidding: Kings Power Play "standing around on the ice"

By Daws Butler | Apr 13th 2011 | 2 min read |

SFGate National Hockey League Sports — San Francisco News If the Kings are going to have success against Niemi, they will have to do better on the p...