Tommy, hockey ... hockey, Tommy

What are the chances that Tommy Lasorda has ever had the appetite to take in a hockey game? Or that the only puck he's ever heard of is Wolfgang and his array of pizzas?

Regardless, as a guest of the Kings on Thursday night at Staples Center, the Dodgers' Hall of Fame manager (other than Joe Torre) will do the honorary puck drop, as well spend the entire second period in the booth with Bob Miller and Jim Fox, when the Ducks come to visit.

Learn him how to drive the Zamboni, and we'll be sure to watch.

(By the way, was that a hockey stick he was dodging in the All-Star Game a while back, or a bat?)

We'll give Lasorda, who grew up in Philadelphia and played minor-league ball in Montreal, the benefit of the doubt that he's at least heard of hockey, based on this cute little entry in a recent AOL Fanhouse blog where he takes some credit for helping future Hall of Fame goaltender Jacques Plante create his first mask.