• Pundays: Halak is the New Halak

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    It’s Pundays at The Royal Half and that means we take a look back at the great puns featured on the NHL.com homepage over the...

  • Know Your Enemy

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    I think the fact that the Los Angeles Kings were playing playoff hockey for the first time in 8 years got me a bit more...

  • Hand-Zeus

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    {iframe width=”448″ height=”336″ align=”top”}http://kings.nhl.tv/team/embed.jsp?hlp=8474563&event=L.A94{/iframe} {iframe width=”448″ height=”336″ align=”top”} http://kings.nhl.tv/team/embed.jsp?hlp=8474563&event=L.A89{/iframe} {iframe width=”448″ height=”336″ align=”top”} http://kings.nhl.tv/team/embed.jsp?hlp=8474563&event=L.A508{/iframe} Now imagine what Drew Doughty could have done had he been...

  • Pundays: Point Un-Pleasant, NJ

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    As the action gets more intense during the NHL playoffs… so do the puns at the main page of NHL.com. Here at The Royal Half,...

  • This is Far From Over

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    And just like that… it’s over. All the yelling, all the screaming, cursing, celebrating, cheering… it just ends in the flash of a second. The...

  • If You Can’t Beat Em, Join Em

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    A mere hours away from gametime, a few Los Angeles Kings Hockey Bloggers have been responding to the great RudyKelly’s Game 6 Questionnaire. So I...

  • Misery Loves Company

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    I kind of had a hockey panic attack leading up to start of Game 6. The nerd hockey blogger in me wanted to stay home...

  • Drew Doughty, NHL Elite Defenseman

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    You would think that the biggest news in the Los Angeles Kings’ world today would be the important Game 5 against the Vancouver Canucks that...

  • Rollercoaster of Love

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    I really don’t know if I can handle too much more of this. It’s been 1 week since the Los Angeles Kings started their first...

  • Perspective

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    Take a few minutes to think back about the past 4 years of being a Los Angeles Kings fan. And you tell me if you...

  • Game 4 Preview

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    “Are they saying LUO-ongo or BOO-ongo?”“Sigh… they are saying BOO-ongo.”“Shit.”   Game 4 is tonight at Staples Center. It’s just a little past 12:00pm here...

  • This is L.A.

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    Dear Los Angeles Kings Marketing Department, I’m sorry for everything I’ve said over the past 3 years. What you put together last night at the...

  • A Stranger in an Awesome Land

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    Us sports fans can be a little wacky sometimes. If someone takes a 2 day cross-country trip to go a friends wedding or their sisters...

  • Vancity Express

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    In a few hours, I will be boarding a plane and heading north to Vancouver, British Columbia to watch Game 2 of the Los Angeles...

  • Game Won

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    H0kHFBMFEZk Will someone explain to me how in the heck Handzus is an emotional low? Somehow I feel like this isn’t the first time a man...

  • Getting The Poison Out of My System

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    I have to admit, it’s still very strange to still be talking about the Los Angeles Kings after the regular season and Draft Lottery. But...

  • Kontos on Kontos

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    During the 1988-89 NHL season, a player came to the Los Angeles Kings that would set the town on fire during the playoffs. No, I’m...