Category: Perspectives from the Cheap Seats

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Kings making the playoffs? Seems like a joke...

By Michael Lloyd | Jan 25th 2021 | 8 min read |

“I expect us to compete really hard for a [playoff] spot like that and shame on any team that’s not approaching the season that way, us included....

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Breaking Down the Team Awards

By Michael Lloyd | Jun 19th 2020 | 5 min read |

It’s been a little while, hasn’t it? Probably because any perspectives from the cheap seats were effectively wiped out on March 11. That 3-2 win o...

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FOMO: Looking Back at Game 7 of the 2014 Western Conference Final

By Michael Lloyd | Mar 16th 2020 | 15 min read |

2014 Western Conference Final had it all between the @NHLBlackhawks and @LAKings. An easy choice for @NHLdotcom‘s Playoff Series of the Decade. ...

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INSTANT REACTION: Rob Blake’s Trade Deadline Interview

By Michael Lloyd | Feb 24th 2020 | 6 min read |

Yesterday, Kings general manager Rob Blake addressed the media about an hour after trade deadline where 32 deals went down involving 55 players. It we...

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Thanks For The Memories: Alec Martinez

By Michael Lloyd | Feb 18th 2020 | 6 min read |

Alec Martinez isn’t the last active member of the 2012 and 2014 Stanley Cup championship teams—for goodness sakes there’s still a handful of her...

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Thanks For The Memories: Tyler Toffoli

By Michael Lloyd | Feb 18th 2020 | 6 min read |

How did we get here with Tyler Toffoli? Why did have to end? In Cocktail, the late eighties Tom Cruise classic, Coughlin tells young Flanagan, “Ever...

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From the Stands: Making Colorado Cry

By Michael Lloyd | Feb 16th 2020 | 8 min read |

On February 5th, I wrote about how nervous I was about the Stadium Series and my fictional “Priceless” MasterCard commercials being ruined by a po...

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REVIEW: “Willie”, an ESPN Documentary

By Michael Lloyd | Feb 11th 2020 | 4 min read |

“In 1958 I broke the color barrier in the National Hockey League. Every game that I played in there were racial remarks directed towards me. They wo...

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Rob Blake: Super Villain?

By Michael Lloyd | Feb 6th 2020 | 5 min read |

Rob, Rob, Rob… What happened? This isn’t the way this was all supposed to go down. You were supposed to be the chosen one. I famously delved i...

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Nervous about the Stadium Series

By Michael Lloyd | Jan 27th 2020 | 5 min read |

Remember those old MasterCard Priceless commercials? You know, the ones where they would list the cost of everything you needed to purchase to make yo...