The memo
As I posted before, the players received a memo today titled, ``Key Factors Late Game With Lead.'' When asked about it after practice, Marc Crawford was none too happy and said, ``There's nothing to it. You shouldn't have seen it.'' But then, pressed a bit to share his thoughts on the topic, Crawford opened up a bit.
``We're always trying to do the right things,'' Crawford said. ``We're trying to, again, keep guiding our players to continually give themselves the best chance to win games. The way that you win games is to have good habits. You have things that you want teams to do with the lead and you have things you want them to do without the lead as well. It's advancing the puck, protecting the puck, making good plays, making sure plays and working hard. It's a lot of cliches. It's not very exciting and it doesn't make for very good copy but it does win games.''
About the bloggers
Rich Hammond has covered the Kings, on a full-time or part-time basis, since the 2000-01 season. He was the beat writer for the entire John Torchetti era and has witnessed Bob Miller singing country music in a Nashville honky-tonk bar. A native of Los Angeles, Rich has worked at the Daily News since 1999 and also serves as the paper's deputy sports editor. E-mail Rich at rich.hammond@dailynews.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.
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