• Pundays: The Name of the Game

    By on October 18, 2010

    I know that the headline writers over at NHL.com are really pushing the envelope this season with their pun headlines… but I’m really surprised Gary...

  • Red Light Salute

    By on October 17, 2010

    Ok, poll time. Everyone here who thinks the Los Angeles Kings are for real this year please raise your hand. Kings 4, Canucks 1, Hopes...

  • Fantasy Fail Friday

    By on October 15, 2010

    Over the summer McSwarley came to me and said “Half, what if we create a fantasy hockey league where the goal is not to be...

  • Missing Your Periods

    By on October 13, 2010

    I know that Coach Murray has made a commitment this season to resting his young goaltender, Jon Quick, as much as possible. But I think...

  • The Royal Half Up In Your Face!

    By on October 12, 2010

    Myself and Half Season Ticket Holder Buddy are on our way to Staples Center for the Los Angeles Kings home opener. But check out a...

  • Pundays: Oil Slick

    By on October 11, 2010

    The NHL season is here again and that can only mean one thing… the NHL.com Pun Headline writers are back with a vengeance! God, how...

  • Western Canada Opening Weekend Cavalcade of ScreenGrabs

    By on October 11, 2010

    Back to back games to open the 2010-2011 NHL season for the Los Angeles Kings?!? That’s way too much hockey for this simple blogger to...

  • Game Won!

    By on October 10, 2010

    Kings 1, Anze Kopitar, A Man

  • Ad Men

    By on October 7, 2010

    One of my favorite pastimes at start of a brand new NHL season is to take a look at how the Los Angeles Kings have...

  • The Frozen and The Fury

    By on October 5, 2010

    I’ve done a lot of great things during my 20+ year career as a Los Angeles Kings fan. I was able to watch Wayne Gretzky...

  • Vegas Vacation

    By on October 1, 2010

    In a few hours Indiana Matt and I will be on a plane on our way to Las Vegas for Frozen Fury 13. Now, while...

  • Regular Season Lineup

    By on September 29, 2010

    After attending the Los Angeles Kings 8-3 pre-season victory over the Anaheim Ducks, I’m thinking that the team ends up skating a lineup like this:...

  • Loser League FTW!!!

    By on September 17, 2010

    Since he spent a night at my house during the NHL Draft, NBC’s Pro Hockey Talk blogger, James O’Brien, must have felt obligated to ask...

  • Camera Ham

    By on September 15, 2010

    You know it’s hockey season when the lead blogger for the Los Angeles Kings is right where he belongs… behind the bench. “Um… I don’t...

  • Sad Don Draper Season In Review

    By on September 9, 2010

    As all fans of The Royal Half know… two of our favorite things in the world are Los Angeles Kings Hockey and the AMC television...

  • Gone Fishin’

    By on August 27, 2010

    In case you haven’t noticed (my Mom and Dad are really the only people to have noticed)… things around here at The Royal Half have...

  • 14 Days

    By on July 14, 2010

    Things that happened in less than 14 days: The Battle of the Alamo 2010 Stanley Cup Finals The recording of the first Beatles album, Please...

  • Pundays: il-legitimate

    By on July 12, 2010

    As we all know, the biggest story of this NHL Free Agency Period has been the trading of RFA Jaroslav Halak to the St. Louis...

  • Taking My Talents to Hollywood

    By on July 12, 2010

    If you believe every single fucking person on the internet… Ilya Kovalchuk will be signing a contract with the Los Angeles Kings sometime on Monday....

  • Heading for a Change

    By on July 9, 2010

    If you know anything about this blog, you know that for every season that myself and my Half Season Ticket Holder Buddy have bought our...