Interesting start

By Matthew Kredell on September 18, 2007 7:54 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) |

The Kings were outshot 10-0 in the first nine and a half minutes but scored the game's first goal when Derek Armstrong took a pass from Kyle Calder and found the left side of the net wide open on a power play exactly 10 minutes in. Bernier is again looking good, stopping those first 10 shots and shutting down two San Jose power plays. He's made two stellar saves, including moving to his left for a glove save against Milan Michalek -- one of his four saves on the second power play.

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.