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Los Angeles Kings Set to
Regain Their Hockey Throne
By Adam Serrao
Photos by Dirk Dewachter
It was only three years ago that the Los
Angeles Kings hoisted the Stanley Cup
above their heads and brought the trophy
back home to the city of Los Angeles. It
was just one season ago, however, that the
Kings had the same playoff expectations,
yet missed the out on the postseason with a
39-35-8 record. Missing the playoffs for the
second time in three seasons will certainly
take its toll on a team and its front office.
That’s why this year’s new-look Kings hope
to regain success with both a new general
manager and a new head coach at the helm.
While on the ice, the roster may still look
somewhat familiar. the biggest changes to
a team that has been devoid of postseason
success lately come behind the bench and
in the front office. In an effort to gain more
prolific leadership, Los Angeles fired both
general manager Dean Lombardi and head
coach Darryl Sutter. While those two names
can certainly be given credit as the craftsmen
of both the 2012 and 2014 Stanley Cup
victories, the Kings will now turn to Rob
Blake and ex-assistant coach John Stevens
to fill their respective capacities and lead
Los Angeles back to greatness.
The front office may be different, but the
team skating around on the ice will feature
many of the same faces that brought home
championship victories to Los Angeles not
long ago. A team that struggled to score goals
just last year should benefit from refreshed
and rejuvenated play from both Anze Kopitar
and Drew Doughty, who both spent time
playing in the World Cup one year ago. Also,
Jonathan Quick should be over the injuries
that caused him to miss so much time last
year, allowing the former All-Star and Conn
Smythe Trophy winner to regain form. Add
in what should be a great defensive effort
this year coming from players like Derek
Forbort, Paul LaDue and Kevin Gravel, and
the Kings should have a team that is ready
to make some noise in the Pacific Division.
Not only are the Kings poised to make noise,
but with the emergence of a fresh face behind
the bench, they are also ready to gain a bit
more offensive freedom on the ice. Kopitar,
for one, is excited about the possibilities
that a new head coach can bring. “It’s not a
new face, but a new philosophy comes in,”
Kopitar explains. “There’s definitely a breath
of fresh air. I think everything’s a little bit
more upbeat. Everything’s a little looser, but
loose in a good way.” Doughty was quick to
second those thoughts. “It’s just a new feeling
around the team, and it feels good,” he said.
“We want to become the team that we were
two years ago, three years ago, probably even
four years ago. It’s not just going to happen
because we made these changes. We’re going
to have to work our butts off and we have to
make this team get there.”
That mindset and attitude shared by both
Kopitar and Doughty is infectious and should
not only spread to the entire team, but also
lead to increased effort on both sides of the
ice. With a better attitude and increased effort,
it shouldn’t be hard for a talented Kings
team to easily improve upon seasons of the
past. Even still, questions remain for a Los
Angeles team opening up the season with
four rookies on the roster while looking for
its first postseason victory since grabbing
the Cup in 2014.
Among those questions is the health of the
aforementioned Quick. The goaltender has
proven to be injury-prone and when he’s out
of the net, the Kings tend to suffer. Though
the addition of four rookies should bring
speed to a team that is in desperate need of it,
the inexperience that comes along with their
time on the ice has the opportunity to prove
lethal at times. The Kings did very little to
improve their roster in the offseason. While
the team is still poised to only get better,
it would be somewhat of a surprise if Los
Angeles regains form enough to surpass the
likes of the Anaheim Ducks, Calgary Flames
and Edmonton Oilers, to name a few.
If the first game of the season said anything,
it’s that the Kings are certainly on their way
toward achieving success. Los Angeles had
lost three straight openers before shutting out
the Philadelphia Flyers by a final score of 2-0
last Thursday night at Staples Center to start
the new season. What’s even more important
than the victory itself is that in the win, the
Kings exhibited the same opportunistic play
on offense and scrappy play on defense that
won the team their last Stanley Cup trophy.
Los Angeles’ season opener was clearly
only one of many more games to come in
a long NHL season. The first impression of
this year’s L.A. Kings, though, tells us that
they will be much closer to the championship
team of the 2014 Finals than to that of
the one that missed the playoffs last year.
– Aserrao6@yahoo.com •
Up and Adam
North High Saxons Prevail in a
Battle of Torrance Football Rivals
By Adam Serrao
The most likely outcome in any Pioneer
League rivalry game--especially when those
two rivals are both from the city of Torrance--is
a shootout with one team simply displaying
more offensive firepower than the other.
What happened last Friday night at West
High was exactly the opposite of that. After
three straight quarters of gritty football and
stingy defense, one team was finally able to
make it onto the scoreboard. With less than
five minutes remaining in the entire game,
Mitchell Jackson converted a 32-yard field
goal that proved to be both the first points
North’s quarterback Mehki Jordan (#1) scrambles out of the backfield under West Torrance’s defensive pressure in the second quarter of play.
of the game and the game-winning score. A
3-0 victory not only sealed the Warriors’ fate,
but also vaulted the Saxons ahead of West
High in the season-long standings.
The North High Saxons and the West High
Warriors obviously have a long history of
being rivals and battling it out in the Pioneer
League for supremacy. Most recently,
however, it was the Warriors who came out
on top with a 14-10 victory just one season
ago. West eventually finished in second
place that year before being kicked out of
the playoffs in the first round of play. This
time, it’s North High’s year in the rivalry-
-and though it wasn’t necessarily pretty, the
team (and Jackson) still found a way to get
it done. “It was tough, well-fought and came
down to the wire,” Jackson explained after
the game. “I just did it. I believed in myself
and I did it. I was thinking I had to do this
for my team. I feel extremely blessed for
this opportunity.”
The Saxons and head coach Todd Croce
must feel blessed too. Unable to get anything
going on offense all night long, it came
down to just one kick to decide the fate of
the entire game. That kick came on the heels
of a 29-yard pass by North quarterback Sean
Sigala and catch from Brandon Livingston.
It was Livingston’s only catch of the night
and came on a fourth down play call. The
risk was certainly worth the eventual reward
and wound up getting the Saxons the win.
“We did what we had to do as a team to get
that win,” Livingston said. “This win gets
us some revenge from last year and sets the
tone for us in league. This was a big win.”
On the other side of the ball, it was another
close loss for the Warriors. Like North, they
failed to get anything going on offense all
night long. The close loss was West’s second
of the season, with the other coming in week
three against Redondo. Coach Greg Holt and
company are now spiraling in the wrong
direction and have lost four games in a row
and five of their first six of the year. West
(1-5, 0-1) will look to get back on track this
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