Matt Murray has been a Kings fan since the late '80s, when Wayne Gretzky grabbed headlines by defecting to the West Coast. Since then, he has been a card-carrying bandwagon member as the club soared in popularity with their sole Stanley Cup appearance to their position near the bottom of the Pacific. But things are looking brighter, as he is anxious to witness the rise of the new Kings.
Kings suffer power outage
...but they're getting great frequent flyer milage this week. After Wednesday night's game at Minnesota, they travel to Columbus then jet on down to Dallas.
Could it be that the Kings were exhausted by playing the second of back-to-back games? A very hard-fought game against the Ducks, which wound up being tied and decided by a shootout. They were expected to fly to Colorado and play the Avs, who had a day to to prepare.
Cloutier played a decent first period. Unfortunately, there were two more after that. Some say the team looked like they quit. I think they were just exhausted.
Who were the wizards who came up with this scheduling??? 5 games in 7 days. How dumb.
