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RICH HAMMOND

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.
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im blaming this one on the flu! and the Gretzky conspiracy theory.. we wanted him to have his 100th win against his fav team :p

February 18, 2008 10:46 PM

KMK4LIFE said:

This is the best Kings site, ever! Thanks!!

Hell yeah, I'm waiting.

February 18, 2008 10:50 PM

marc V said:

Matt,

As a king's fan we are coming up on one of our big days each year, Trade deadline on the 26th. Are you getting any information from the GM Meeting in Florida? Any information would be better, then what happen tonight.

February 18, 2008 11:01 PM

Josh M said:

Oh my God...besides the debacle on the ice, was anyone there for the horrible rendition of Our National Anthem? For one, the lady singing was more like a man wearing brown bed sheets. Two, she (or he) forgot the lyrics and skipped a whole verse! Three, she (or he) had to take a deep breath every TWO words! And to make things worse, she (or he) tried to make the song her (or his) own by adding some unnecessary noises at the end. I wish she (or he) would've fallen on the ice. That would've made up for it.
As far as the game goes, Ivanans beat the sh*t out of Carcillo and Brown lit up a few guys towards the end of the game. The only highlights for a team vowing for the #1 pick.
I want Stamkos bad...real bad.

February 18, 2008 11:27 PM

Paul said:

Hi, my name is Paul and I'm a Los Angeles Kings fan. It's been 15 years since my team has played a meaningful game.

February 19, 2008 5:10 AM

Dan H. said:

BACK in the Stamkos sweepstakes!

February 19, 2008 9:03 AM

metalmaster said:

Hey Paul as bad as this team is you may have to wait 15 more. As good as the Kings can look at times
that optimism is dampened by the fact that there are
quite a few other young and talented teams in the
Western Conference and they are not coached by
Crawfish. The one constent
factor in the last two
seasons is that the Kings
play BAD TEAM DEFENSE. It is not just the fault of
their defensman.

February 19, 2008 12:05 PM

brianguy said:

man that sounds like the worst anthem ever... I'm really glad I didn't have to stand through that. maybe half those boos last night were actually meant for her. as for the team yeah it's frustrating but to be accurate our last meaningful game was 2002, when we had to play Blake and the damn "'Lanche". at least it went 7 games.

February 19, 2008 12:38 PM