Goalie matchup
It's almost certain to be the Kings' Erik Ersberg against Phoenix's Mikael Tellqvist, even though Coyotes goalie Ilya Bryzgalov has won five consecutive starts against the Kings. Tellqvist has had the hot hand and stopped 95 of 99 shots over his last three starts. Ersberg faced the Coyotes twice last season. The first time, he allowed five goals in a 6-5 shootout win. The second time, he made 38 saves in a shutout victory.
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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.
After Barbi's performance last night, I hope its Ersberg.
Most goalies in the NHL or even the ECHL are able to make a save when the puck is resting at your feet.
Lets hope we rebound like we did after the Flames loss.
Good luck team. And leave Calder at the airport.
The question is Murray going to create scoring lines or leave this club out to dry again by playing inferior players in scoring capacities.Shorten the bench Murray get some more scoringfrom your higher end skill players or you fail again.
anthony said:
Rich,
Your cite is the first one I read every morning.
Come on, Anthony...... you left out
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Shorten the bench Murray get some more scoringfrom your higher end skill players or you fail again.
Yeah. It's too bad Murray couldn't bury that breakaway early in the first. Also, it sucks that Murray couldn't bury the wide-open net on the PP. And again! DAMMIT MURRAY!
Oh wait, those were the players that failed to score. My bad.
Sorry Anthony. According to your comments last night....HORRIBLE game by Ersberg. Already gave up 2 goals.
Shame on him.