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Penner Reflections

Lombardi not fan of our Dustin Penner, either | Edmonton Journal If Dustin Penner thought he and Craig MacTavish were a marriage made in hell here, how about Los Angeles Kings’ GM Dean Lombardi, who was so unenamoured of Dustin’s play in the playoffs he took a major rip at

Now, about Penner's beer league softball status

Dean Lombardi’s respect for Dustin Penner | Blog Archive | Houses of the Hockey | Blogs | TheScore.com The title of this post is somewhat misleading, seeing as Kings GM Dean Lombardi appears to have abandoned what little respect he had left for Dustin Penner. That’s not to say Lombardi has

Cake Show Steve continues to make Sharks fans look like expletives

Part one of my response to the Blades of Teal's eulogy of the Kings is here. Little did I know that he also ran a "director's cut" of the same post, which also requires some, well, you'll see... The Quick and The Dead | Blades of Teal [J]ust because the

Eulogy: Remembering the 2010-11 San Jose Sharks

I actually don't have a problem with the actual Sharks. At least, not like I have a problem with this: Eulogy: Remembering the 2010-11 Los Angeles Kings - Puck Daddy - NHL Blog - Yahoo! Sports By S.M. Williams, Blades of Teal Ladies and Gentleman, Just as an update,

[UPDATE] Kings have almost never this - Sharks have slightly less never that

* Kings in Game 6s: 11-5 11-6 * Sharks in Game 6s: 3-13 4-13 * Kings in Game 6s at home: 9-2 9-3 * Sharks in Game 6s on the road: 2-7 3-7 * Twice Three times, the Kings have lost 3 OT games in a single series: Oilers, 1991; Canadiens, 1993; Sharks, 2011. * The

I summarily reject all anti-Penner B.S.

I've been thinking about this topic for a couple of weeks now, since Kopitar and Williams got hurt. I'm going to use this post from LAKi as a leaping-off point only. The BS is 99.9% elsewhere. Which version of Penner will the Kings get? " LA Kings Insider This is,

"I'm sorry, but you've got to not want to call that to not make a call on the play."

That's the work of Brian Hayward, Poet Laureate of the Anaheim Ducks broadcast team. He's referring to a non-call of too-many-men against Dallas in their game against Anaheim tonight. This is what makes Hayward especially odious as a color commentator. It's not enough that the refs might have missed a