Category: Could Happen

RudyKelly's 2011-12 Los Angeles Kings

By Daws Butler | Mar 15th 2010 | 4 min read |

RudyKelly (www.battleofcali.com) and I agreed to each dream up our own roster for LA 2011 opening night, and then exchange and comment. Neither of us ...

A Kings Fan's Guide to Panic

By Daws Butler | Mar 7th 2010 | 4 min read |

The biggest late-season choke in Kings history was this time four years ago, in Andy Murray’s last season. This was also, as many of the more pa...

Kings Have 21 Games to Get 18 Points

By Daws Butler | Mar 2nd 2010 | 4 min read |

The Los Angeles Kings are 37-20-4 going into the final 21 games of the season. Their schedule doesn’t especially help them or hurt them, which i...

Getting Back On The Tracks

By Connie Kim | Mar 1st 2010 | 3 min read |

The Los Angeles Kings have had a lot of good come out of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. Four out of five Kings come back with medals around their necks ...

I keep hearing it's going to take 97 or 98 points to get into the playoffs in the West

By Daws Butler | Feb 14th 2010 | 1 min read |

But when I look at the numbers, I think it’s going to be more like 93-96, 93 being much less likely than, say, 95, which is what I would bet on ...

Algorithm Plays Out Rest of Season; Kings Make Playoffs 9,800,000 Times (UPDATED)

By Daws Butler | Jan 31st 2010 | 2 min read |

…because in the time it’s taken you to get around to this post, the Kings beat the Devils and, among other things, the new Flames sucked j...

How's that 20-game mini-season working out?

By Daws Butler | Jan 21st 2010 | 2 min read |

Around New Year’s, I posted what I thought the Kings needed to do in order to be “on pace” for the playoffs by the time the Olympic ...

WHAT ARE THE THREE THINGS?

By Daws Butler | Jan 13th 2010 | 1 min read |

They are three of these four things: 1) A top-line sniper. 2) A 3rd line crusty playoff-savvy veteran who pisses people off and can say some wise thin...

Kings are 4-8-0 (.333) in their last 12; any Western playoffteams do that last year?

By Daws Butler | Jan 12th 2010 | 1 min read |

Yes. One team did it last year. The Blues. They went 1-7-1 (.167) in October/November. Vancouver came close: 2-5-5 (.375) in January. Chicago almost d...

I just noticed that Kopitar, Brown, Frolov, Parse and Quick

By Daws Butler | Jan 11th 2010 | 1 min read |

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