Afternoon lines
Alaexander Frolov is not practicing this afternoon. I should be able to get a reason after practice. Here's how they're skating, with Stoll back on the second line...
Smyth-Kopitar-Williams
Purcell-Stoll-Brown
Clune-Handzus-Simmonds
Ivanans-Harrold-Zeiler
Richardson-Moller-Lewis
Johnson-Scuderi
O'Donnell-Doughty
Drewiske-Greene
Hickey-Martinez
Quick
Bernier
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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.
No Fro? Trade or Groin?
If he's traded, i quit
Richardson-Moller-Lewis
why is it that everytime a trade is mentioned, Alex Frolov is the name brought up....a rhetorical question, of course, since he is THE player that other teams want, he is THE player other teams need...
in fact I can almost feel them drooling for the chance to lure him away from the Kings...
so we need another goal scorer, but certainly not at the expense of the best all-around fundamental player in the NHL....sure, at times you get the feeling he could do more, but maybe he now has added incentive with the addition of Smyth and Scuderi....now we have a good shot at a playoff slot....it'll be interesting to see if Fro plays with more consistency and is able to raise his game another notch...God knows he has the ability.
Out with a bruised ego perhaps?
Traded for sure.....right?
Now, Morency is an army criminal. Can we get one of those?
I would love to see Rich Clune make the team.. Trevor Lewis also
...for Dubinsky?
Maybe Fro is out for personal reasons, rather than he's being traded?
And it would be nice to have Clune rather than Zeiler/Richardson.
Harrold can go, too. I'd rather have Drewiske. He played better in the Kings/Pens game than Harrold did all last season. We can keep Harrold, as long as we like Bobby Ryan scoring on us.
Doughty
JJ
OD
Greene
Scuderi
Drewiske
Hickey
That's all that we need.
Fro needs to stay in LA!
Ersberg,
and that's all you're gonna get!
I think those will be our 7 this year as well.
I'm really diggin Harold at center. I think the guy might have finally found his position.
Rich, please let us know as soon as Kovalchuk is held out of practice in Atlanta ;)
Call me crazy, but I'd like to see Doughty and Drewiske paired together instead of OD.
DD-Drewiske
JJ-Scuderi
OD-Greene
Hickey