Wow, Kings win 9-2 over Chicago. A hat trick for Nagy, two goals for Frolov and one apiece for Brown, Sully, Preissing and Visnovsky. Maybe I should not go to games more often? To be fair, though, I was at the Dallas comeback.

I’ll post some post-game quotes as soon as I get them from Lindsay. In the mean time, here are some quotes she got from this morning’s skate …

Crawford on first half of season: “Well I hope we have 32 points in the first half of the season with a
victory tonight and we’re disappointed with it for sure. We started
off with some very good promise after digging a little bit of a hole
going 1-5. And then we started to play very well I think, it’s
largely been characteristic of when our goaltending has been good. We
had that stretch where Jason played really well and our played really
well. We had a terrible December and unfortunately we played a lot of
games in that timeframe. You hope when you play like that, when it
seems like everything that can go wrong goes wrong, you hope you’re
not playing that many games and unfortunately for us we played a lot.
So we’ve dug ourselves a very big hole but we cant look at the
overall picture right now we have to concentrate on process and I
think if we look at the things that we can control, which is how
we’re playing in our own end, limiting how many chances that we’re
trying to give up I think we’re giving ourselves an opportunity to be
in games and a result from that process will follow.”

“We have been very close in all these games, we won the last two, and
eight of the last ten were all one-goal games and we’ve come out on
the right side of the last two. We have to come with the mindset that
when we think the game’s going to be close try not to give up easy
chances. You’ve got to make shots to win, you have to make good plays
to win, but we give ourselves a better opportunity if we’re not
giving away chances.”

Crawford had said Monday that he didn’t think Frolov was playing like his usual self from coming back from the groin injury. Looks like that changed today. Here’s what Frolov said about the groin before the game …

“It’s so-so. I’ve had a lot of problems with my groin and it’s still
hurt and I just try to play through it. It’s been hard to be in good
condition because I couldn’t skate for a long time, I didn’t do leg
workouts, lower body workouts, and now with the schedule there’s a
game pretty much every next day. It’s hard because we don’t really
practice a lot. It’s getting better so I’m more concerned about it
not getting worse.

“Sometimes I feel a little bit better sometimes I feel a little bit
worse. I guess with injuries like that I need to have some time off
the ice to heal up 100 percent and it’s hard to get it right now and
I don’t really want to shut it down. I really want to play so I’m
just playing through it.”