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HEAD COACH
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Larry Robinson
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ROSTER
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C - Jozef Stumpel, Olli Jokinen, Ian Laperriere, Ray
Ferraro, Yanic Perreault. LW - Eric Lacroix, Vladimir Tsyplakov,
Luc Robitaille, Craig Johnson, Josh Green. RW - Russ Courtnall,
Nathan LaFayette, Glen Murray, Sandy Moger, Daniel Audette, Pavel
Rosa. D - Garry Galley, Rob Blake, Sean O'Donnell, Doug Bodger,
Mattias Norstrom, Steve Duchesne, Philippe Boucher. G - Stephane
Fiset, Jamie Storr.
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INJURIES
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Steve McKenna, lw (abdominal strain, season). Craig
Johnson, lw (ribs, week to week). Ray Ferraro, c (knee, 4-6
weeks). Glen Murray, lw (knee sprain, 6-8 weeks).
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TRANSACTIONS
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Umm...none, unfortunately.
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GAME RESULTS
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1/14 Calgary W 3-0
1/16 Pittsburgh L 5-1
1/19 Colorado L 5-4
1/21 New Jersey L 3-2
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STANDINGS
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Pacific Division GP W L T PTS GF GA
Dallas 43 27 9 7 61 127 89
Phoenix 42 24 11 7 55 113 87
Anaheim 45 17 19 9 43 113 108
San Jose 45 15 18 12 42 104 106
Los Angeles 45 16 25 4 36 106 121
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TEAM NEWS
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by Matt Moore, Los Angeles Correspondent
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The Kings are a roller coaster, going up and down with a bunch of
loops, while the fans try to not puke.
Coming off a 6-1-1 stretch, things were looking up. But then reality
set in. Playing flat-footed and like they don't seem to care
anymore, they simply got outskated and outhustled by the Pens,
disappeared for stretches of the games with the Avs and Devils, and
just plain sucked overall.
This brings up whether Larry Robinson should continue to be the
Kings coach. The Kings are suffering from a lack of direction and
consistency, which shows in their performance. Showing up for one
period a game just doesn't cut it anymore and it just gets
monotonous for Robinson to blame the lack of intensity of his
players for their losing. Well, shouldn't the coach have something
to say about that?
Donald Audette continues to be showing that the Kings can actually
make a great trade. He shows a great ability to get open for a shot
quickly and has been the source of much of the offensive excitement
for the Kings recently. Now if only he got some support from the
rest of the Kings he would be a point per game scorer if not
better. But one can only dream.
Trade rumors: Alexandre Daigle wants to be traded from the Flyers,
and the Kings are rumored to be one of his suitors. This
possibility scares me, considering his main claim to fame is that
he went on a date with Pam Anderson, unless you count his being a
major disappointment in both Ottawa and Philadelphia as a claim to
fame. Sure the guy has shown flashes of good skills, but what the
heck good are they if the boy can't play anything but straight
ahead hockey and can't play defense worth a darn. Seems like a
Petr Klima reincarnation except without the speed. I'd pass and
let the Oilers try one of their reclamation projects.
I'd now write something about the All-Star Game, but as I hate
All-Star games I didn't watch it. Especially something as lame as
World vs. North America, which just means that all the hard to
spell names are on one team instead of two. Yee-haw. But
congratulations to Rob Blake, Luc Robitaille, and Mattias Norstrom
on getting to play this year. It was especially sweet of Norstrom
to get selected since he is a defensive- minded player best known
for backing up Rob Blake.
And a missing persons report is going to be filed for both Pavel
Rosa and Steve Duchesne, who have disappeared recently. Duchesne
is rumored to be on the outgoing side of the potential Daigle
trade, which would just mean the Kings would get a crappy young
player who doesn't live up to his potential in exchange for an
older player who likes making turnovers.
Rosa has been shoved back into the dark recesses of the third and
fourth lines by Larry Robinson. Who cares if he was showing great
potential and had 12 points in 15 games? Who cares if he is the
future of the Kings, should get playing time in this soon to be
lost season, and played pretty darn well with Luc Robitaille? Got
to make sure that Sandy Moger and Yanic Perreault get their ice
time...
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