Behind the Curtain: A Peek at the KHL
Repping the great Ilya Kolvachuk at a KHL game will earn you mad props. © Michael Lloyd I took a wild trip to Moscow to get up close with Russian hockey. I wound up meeting Igor…read on! While we wait for the boys to return from the combination All-Star break and mandatory five-day bye week […]
#ThankYouBob
This is beginning to be a yearly column all of the sudden… My Los Angeles Kings* flamed out on their way to the Stanley Cup. Shoot, they didn’t even make the playoff this year. Nothing left to cheer for in the 2017 playoffs except every team playing the loathsome Anaheim Ducks. Attention NHL: let’s get […]
Standing in Line: The 2016 Golden Globes
Okay, so where am I? I’m at the beautiful Beverly Hilton standing on line to pickup my credentials for the Golden Globes on Sunday. Geez, there are a lot of people here. Are they giving credentials to every Mom Blogger on the planet? Wait, they are giving a credential to me so I should just […]
A Gift from the Hockey Gods
Just a quick column that no one will read, because, well, hockey! Starting in 1973, I was sucked into the thrill of hockey and the not-so-great Los Angeles Kings. Dad’s second wife worked in the ticket office at the Fabulous Forum in Inglewood. That meant that any non-sellout game was available to attend. And why […]
The Ghost of Marty McSorley’s Stick
May 30, 2012 enters uncharted territory for Los Angeles Kings hockey. Never before has a Kings squad entered the Stanley Cup Final as the favorite – – ESPN’s “experts” picked L.A. to take Lord Stanley’s Cup home by a vote of 10 to 3. Heck, they have only been in the Finals once. (Sheesh once? Why […]
