Staying with Ersberg
As expected, Erik Ersberg will make his eighth consecutive start in goal when the Kings host Washington tomorrow night. Overall, Ersberg has a 1.95 goals-against average and a .910 save percentage in nine games. As a starter, Ersberg has allowed two or fewer goals in five of his seven starts and has yet to allow more than three goals in a game. Here's what Terry Murray said about staying with Ersberg...
MURRAY: ``Ersberg has been good. He has played well. We've had half a dozen or seven real good hockey games that we could have had a better result in, just with us finding a way to score at the right time and the appropriate time, maybe on the power play. But we've had a good run here and we want to snap back after a two-game losing streak and get back into the winning ways. But I'm certainly not putting LaBarbera on the shelf. I know we've got a couple back-to-backs coming up, so we'll get him geared up and ready to go there.''
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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.
Hey Rich,
What do you think the chances are of Labs getting traded? I mean the club can't seriously be thinking about re-signing this guy...
If he goes who gets called up to be [hopefully] Ersberg's back-up?
"we've got a couple back-to-backs coming up" for LaBarbera. Finally, Ersberg sounds like TM's de facto #1. Yes, please ONLY play LaBarbera in back-to-backs.
And Sully on the first line. Now we have two legitimate scoring and PP lines, all that this team can really ice right now. Spreading scoring around when there is no scoring to spread around creates four lines that can only ALMOST score, and no lines that CAN score. these are the right moves. hopefully they pay off against a feisty washington team.
i don't care if TM never calls ersberg the #1 goalie as long as he keeps playing him.
wow sully back on the 1st and iceberg in net almost to good to be true, should of happened game 1 better late then never.
Well at least this coach is coming around in the goaltending category.
He is giving them 10 games each.
It's a fair test. There's no way Labarbera can argue that he didn't get a chance.
Wow, like the .910 and the under 2 GAA!