Tonight's roster
This, as far as I know, is the roster of available players for tonight's game against Colorado. Obviously some of these guys won't play, but that's who is there.
FORWARDS: Derek Armstrong, Brian Boyle, Dustin Brown, Kyle Calder, Vladimir Dravecky, Matt Ellis, Gabe Gauthier, Michal Handzus, Raitis Ivanans, Dwight King, Anze Kopitar, Matt Moulson, Marty Murray, Ted Purcell, Brad Richardson, Wayne Simmonds, Jarret Stoll, Kevin Westgarth and John Zeiler.
DEFENSEMEN: Drew Doughty, Davis Drewiske, Matt Greene, Jack Johnson, Alec Martinez, Joe Piskula, Tom Preissing and Colten Teubert.
GOALIES: Erik Ersberg, Jonathan Quick and Jeff Zatkoff.
To answer an earlier question about Moller not being there, I think it's just a numbers thing. They want certain guys to get in games, experience road trips, etc. Jason LaBarbera and Denis Gauthier are two veterans who didn't make the trip.
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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.
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Will the game be on radio?
Responding to comments in the other thread, I don't think this is a knock against Moller at all. Clearly, Murray liked what he saw the other night (a lot); Moller is leading the league in points for rookies and is one point shy of the top for everyone after one game. There are, I believe, six games left and more cuts are coming soon; one could surmise that Murray already knows Moller is sticking around (at least through the next round of cuts) so it's better to get a look at some other kids.
Time for EE to get some PT. I hope he tears it up so we have some hope of winning more games this year.
rich if you can get some inside how come hickey isnt there would be nice cause i heard terry like him a lot...
excuse the ignorance, but where is Bernier? As far as I've seen he didn't play in either one of the split squad games...I would've thought he'd log some decent minutes during the pre-season...anyone?
Hagi,
If I recall correctly, Bernier is injured. I'm not sure though.
Hagi, Bernier has a stiff/sore leg. I don't even know if he's practicing right now.