Cardboard Magic
I believe hockey cards have supernatural powers. This is why, in the winter of 1975, I starting arranging my Los Angeles Kings cards like players on a hockey rink on the top of my mammoth hand-me-down stereo console. And then challenged the NHL All Stars—or at least the cards I was able to collect—to a […]
The Original King of Inglewood
Today marks the 50th Anniversary of the day the National Hockey League came out of the dark ages and expanded from six teams (really NHL, six teams?) to 12. My soon-to-be beloved Los Angeles Kings joined St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Minneapolis and Oakland as expansion franchises and started play in 1967-68. I’ve been around for […]
