Win preseason tickets
(EDIT: Thanks for playing, everyone. I got four correct answers in very short order. The only one that tripped a couple people up was that the Kings won the Smythe Division in 1990-91, NOT 1992-93. That season, they finished third before the great playoff run.)
Thanks to a gracious donor, I have four pair of tickets available to the Sept. 30 preseason game between the Kings and Ducks at Staples Center. They're good tickets, in the 200 level, $62 face value. I want to give them to readers and I thought the fairest way would be to have people answer trivia questions. If you're interested, and you know you'll use the tickets, e-mail me -- rich.hammond@dailynews.com -- with the answers to the questions below, as well as your name and address (it won't be used for any advertising purposes or anything like that). The first four correct entries will win two tickets each. If I don't get four fully correct entries by Monday morning, I'll take the ones that get the most correct. Good luck!
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1. What former Kings star attended Bowling Green University?
Rob Blake
Jimmy Carson
Larry Robinson
Dave Taylor
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2. In 1993, when the Kings reached the Stanley Cup Finals, which team did they beat in the first round?
Calgary
Edmonton
Vancouver
Winnipeg
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3. In what season did the Kings win their only Smythe Division championship?
1989-90
1990-91
1991-92
1992-93
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4. Who is quoted as saying, ``"My greatest fear is that I retire and the Kings win a Stanley Cup the next year''?
Pete Demers
Wayne Gretzky
Bob Miller
Luc Robitaille
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5. Which Kings owner said, ``I am going to build my own arena...I've had enough of this balderdash.''
Phil Anschutz
Jerry Buss
Jack Kent Cooke
Bruce McNall
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6. True or false? Larry Murphy holds the franchise record for most points in a season by a defenseman.
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7. The Kings got three players and two draft picks from St. Louis in the Wayne Gretzky trade. Name the three players.
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8. Every year, the highest-scoring team in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League is given a trophy named after which former Kings forward?
Marcel Dionne
Wayne Gretzky
Bernie Nicholls
Luc Robitaille
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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.
Jill Painter joined the Daily News in 2000 and during the last eight years she's covered the Dodgers, Cal State Northridge, UCLA, Kings, golf and everything in between. Even though she's from Colorado, she still freezes in the Staples Center press box but always manages to thaw her fingers in time to make deadline. E-mail Jill at jill.painter@dailynews.com.
The suspense is killing me Rich! Can you give the initials of who won? I haven't gotten an email back
1. What former Kings star attended Bowling Green University?
Rob Blake
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2. In 1993, when the Kings reached the Stanley Cup Finals, which team did they beat in the first round?
Calgary
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3. In what season did the Kings win their only Smythe Division championship?
1990-91
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4. Who is quoted as saying, ``"My greatest fear is that I retire and the Kings win a Stanley Cup the next year''?
Bob Miller
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5. Which Kings owner said, ``I am going to build my own arena...I've had enough of this balderdash.''
Jack Kent Cooke
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6. True or false? Larry Murphy holds the franchise record for most points in a season by a defenseman.
True. With 76 (1980–81)
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7. The Kings got three players and two draft picks from St. Louis in the Wayne Gretzky trade. Name the three players.
Craig Johnson, Patrice Tardif and Roman Vopat
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8. Every year, the highest-scoring team in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League is given a trophy named after which former Kings forward?
Luc Robitaille
What were the correct answers?
alright rich....tell me i won
Rich
You're the best..we all love ya, but cmon 2 days of practice and 1 update?
I was just amazed I was able to recall the 3 scrubs we got for Gretzky w/o having to search the internet.