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You Ain’t Shane, You Ain’t Mook – ’19-’20 NHL Team Previews: Los Angeles Kings

By Sam Fels September 26, 2019 0

While it’s fun to mock the Kings, in the end you’re really only mocking yourself (done played yo’ self, fool). It’s another team that sat on top of the hockey world for a few years, but now has too many entrenched contracts to have a full teardown and restart. And those big contracts make it […]

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Game #78 – Hawks 2, Kings 2 – Kings Win ’80s Night Breakdancing Contest

By Rose Rankin March 31, 2019 0

This was a poorly played game for the most part, which I guess comes as no surprise given who the teams involved were. And yet, the contrast between the dull first period when both teams ended up with a handful of themselves and the excitement of basically every other televised sporting event in the nation […]

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Game #78 – Hawks vs. Kings Preview/Death By Exile: Here Comes That Vomit Again

By Sam Fels March 30, 2019 0

vs. RECORDS: Hawks 34-33-10   Kings 28-40-9 PUCK DROP: 9:30pm TV: NBCSN Chicago YOU HAVE SELECTED REGICIDE: They all hate us so we won’t list any of them It’s funny. There are a fair few fans who wish the Hawks would have done what the Kings have done, no matter how unpleasant it would be to […]

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Game #78 – Hawks vs. Kings Q&A: All The Kings Men

By Sam Fels March 30, 2019 0

Jesse Cohen runs the “All The Kings Men” podcast, and you can follow him @KingsMenPodcast. Much like the Hawks, how do the Kings rebuild with this much bad money around? They can’t buy out everyone, and they can’t trade most of it either.  I’m not sure there’s much the Kings can do but hope the […]

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Game #65 – Hawks vs. Kings Preview, Demo Ski Rental – Modern Day Catastrophists

By Matt McClure March 2, 2019 0

at RECORDS: Hawks 27-28-9   Kings 23-33-8 PUCK DROP: 3:00PM CST TV/RADIO: NBC Sports Chicago, NHL Network, WGN-AM 720 PLEASE NO MORE CALIFORNIA SONGS: JFTC How the mighty have fallen. It’s a cliche, but given the matchup between these two former titans, it’s applicable. And while the Hawks are threatening to make a useless playoff appearance […]

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Game #65 – Hawks vs. Kings Spotlight: Anze Showing The Way…Yet Again

By Sam Fels March 2, 2019 0

It will be impossible, and it should be. to unlink the careers of Anze Kopitar and Jonathan Toews. Kopitar came into the league one year earlier, and is one year older, but both were among the best two-way centers in the game. Both anchored two of the pillar teams in the NHL for the decade, […]

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Game #65 – Hawks vs. Kings Q&A: Est Disparu?

By Sam Fels March 2, 2019 0

This keeps happening. Our normal Kings guy has disappeared, though we guess we can understand not wanting to talk about the Kings when you don’t have to. So here’s a link to a Lisa Dillman Q&A on The Athletic that should leave you where you need to be.  Lisa Dillman Q&A   Game #65 Preview […]

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Game #65 – Hawks vs. Kings Douchebag Du Jour: The Whining Fanbase You Never Hear About

By Sam Fels March 2, 2019 0

When it comes to fanbases you identify as whiners or complainers, you usually think of Toronto and their self-flagellation. Or it used to be Detroit and how no one worshipped them to the degree they thought was reasonable (something around Egyptian king/Commodus level). Or Montreal and their need for past and meaningless glories to still […]

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Game #20 – Kings vs. Hawks Preview: A Chilling Vision

By Sam Fels November 16, 2018 0

 vs.  RECORDS: Kings 5-11-1   Hawks 7-8-4 PUCK DROP: 7:30 TV: NBCSN Chicago NO MORE CALIFORNIA SONGS: Jewels From The Crown It’s ok if you mourn the end of the Hawks Era. It can be a tough watch at times, especially when the memories of what a fine, oiled machine it was still so fresh. No […]

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Game #20 – Kings vs. Hawks Spotlight: Those Who Do Not Learn…Go To The Kings Front Office

By Sam Fels November 16, 2018 0

Let us take you back to the spring of 2014. It’s not a happy trip for those of us around here, but it’s necessary. The Kings and Blackhawks played perhaps the best playoff series since The Great ’05 Lockout. The Kings come out on top by a pubic hair. They go on to destroy the […]