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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Preissing...a year later

Last year, defenseman Tom Preissing played for Ottawa in the Stanley Cup finals, which the Ducks won. Preissing will play against his former team tonight and said he hasn't thought much about the Stanley Cup playoffs recently but that he'll probably do so when he's sitting at home watching the playoffs.
``Obviously, you were that close to something you’ve dreamt about since you were a little kid,’’ Preissing said. ``It was very exciting and very difficult. It was an invaluable experience. It was an experience I’d hoped to bring to the team this year, but obviously that’s not going to happen because we’re not going to make the playoffs. I hope that’s something we’ll do in the future.’’

6 Comments

Kevin said:

Wasn't Preissing a healthy scratch for Ottawa for a good deal of the playoffs? Did he even play in one finals game?

Anonymous said:

Hey Jill, thanks for the good work today, it's much appreciated.

Someone said:

Kevin,

He played in all the Sens playoff games last year.

Goon Squad said:

What the hell happened?

Maverick said:

I have no problem with Preissing. He has played as expected and has a very reasonable contract. His numbers will go up if he was paired with a stay at home defenseman... The Kings are almost entirely offensive/quaterback defenseman. It is not his fault they have no defensive defenseman and few defensive forwards...

Anonymous said:

Well said Maverick

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