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By Rich Hammond on October 27, 2006 4:01 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) |

Thanks to our online guru, Josh Kleinbaum, putting this together, we now have a forum to discuss the Kings. So let's dive into tonight's game against Columbus...

Here's the lineup tonight for the Kings:

Forwards: Armstrong, Kopitar, O'Sullivan, Cammalleri, Cowan, Avery, Willsie, Conroy, Brown, Frolov, Thornton
Defensemen: Miller, Blake, Weaver, Norstrom, Visnovsky, Tverdovsky, Dallman
Goal: Cloutier.

Starters: Avery, Conroy, Cowan, Miller, Norstrom

A couple interesting things of note immediately: Sopel is out with an ankle injury, the Kings stay with seven defensemen -- with Dallman serving as a forward and Weaver in the lineup for the second time this season -- and Cloutier remains in goal. Crawford is probably looking for a confidence builder for his goalie against the (so far) dreadful Blue Jackets.

J.P. Hoornstra writes about NHL and IHL hockey for the Los Angeles Newspaper Group. He welcomes any and all dialogue on the finer points of hockey. E-mail J.P. at jp.hoornstra
@inlandnewspapers.com.

Jill Painter joined the Daily News in 2000 and during the last eight years she's covered the Dodgers, Cal State Northridge, UCLA, Kings, golf and everything in between. Even though she's from Colorado, she still freezes in the Staples Center press box but always manages to thaw her fingers in time to make deadline. E-mail Jill at jill.painter@dailynews
.com.