I’m told the Kings are encouraged by the offseason work of goalie Jason LaBarbera, who had surgery to repair a sports hernia. LaBarbera, it seems, has dropped a significant amount of weight and is paying close attention to a summer workout program. It will be interesting to see how the goalie situation shakes out, but don’t we say that every year?

The goalies spent the past week up in Vancouver, working with goalie coach Bill Ranford. I don’t know the exact number of goalies up there, but last I heard, LaBarbera, Bernier, Zatkoff, Quick and Taylor were all headed up there. Ersberg too, most likely, since he’s now under contract.

Speaking of offseason workouts, Dustin Brown and Alexander Frolov have practically taken up residence at the El Segundo training facility this summer.

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The NHL released its national television schedule today, but don’t look too hard for the Kings. They won’t appear on Versus this season and aren’t scheduled for NBC either. There are two Hockey Night in Canada games on CBC (Nov. 1 vs. Calgary and Jan. 31 at Montreal), one game on RDS (at Montreal, naturally) and one game on TSN (Nov. 26 at Edmonton), but that’s it. Mike Knobler of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution sent along a breakdown that shows each team’s national TV breakdown in 2008-09…

—————CBC-NBC-RDS-TSN-Versus—-Total
Kings————2—-0—-1——1——-0———-4
Anaheim ——-0—-0—-1——2——-1———-4
Atlanta———-0—-0—-4——4——-2———-10
Boston———-3—-0—-6——5——-8———-22
Buffalo———-0—-0—-6——7——-8———-21
Calgary——–13—0—–2—–10——0———-25
Carolina——–0—-0—-4——-3——-1———–8
Chicago——–4—-1—–1——3——-3———-12
Colorado——-2—-0—–1——6——-5———-14
Columbus——0—-0—–1——1——-1———–3
Dallas———–1—-0—–1——3——-4———–9
Detroit———-3—-1—–1——-5——7———–17
Edmonton—–12—0—–2——10——0———-24
Florida———-0—-0—–4——-3——1———–8
Minnesota——4—-0—–1——-1——8———-14
Montreal——-15—0—-82——15—–3———-115
Nashville——–0—-0—–1——-3——1———–5
New Jersey—–0—-0—–4——-3——6———-13
N.Y. Islanders–0—-0—–4——-1——4———–9
N.Y. Rangers—4—-1—–4——-3——8———-20
Ottawa———-13—0—–6——10——2———-31
Philadelphia—-3—-0—–4——–2——7———16
Phoenix———3—-0——1——-0——1———-5
Pittsburgh——10—1——4——-1——8———24
San Jose——–3—-0——1——-2——3———-9
St. Louis———0—-0—–1——–1——5———-7
Tampa Bay——2—-0—–4——–4——4——–14
Toronto———24—-0—- -6——-17—–3———50
Vancouver—–15—-0——2——-10—–1——–28
Wash————-2—-0——4——–4——7——–17
Total————138—4—-164—-140—112——558 (279 games)