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Ducks vs. Kings: Nick Bonino scores ridiculous backhand goal
Best goal of the season?The no-look backhand goal is a rare thing indeed, but Anaheim Ducks forward Nick Bonino accomplished the feat on Saturday.Just a few minutes after Dustin Brown put the Kings up...
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Ducks Clinch Top Spot in the West with 4-3 Shootout Win
A deflected goal, an assist he won't get credited for and a shootout winner by Devante Smith-Pelly helped the Ducks to a 4-3 shootout win in Los Angeles, the first overall seed in the Western...
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Ducks Gameday: The Western Conference's Most Important Banner
We did it! Avalanche @ Ducks.As the San Jose Sharks taught us back in 2009, the highest level a Western Conference team can strive for is the coveted "Western Conference Regular Season Champions"...
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Ducks/Avs Preview: Teemu Appreciation Night
Nothing on the line for the Ducks, but sentimentality.In yesterday's preview, I made a big deal about how that game against the Kings didn't really matter all that much. After the Ducks prevailed 4-3...
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Ducks @ Kings Recap: LA Closes Regular Season With Shootout Loss
The Kings get one point against Anaheim. Progress!82 games in the books for the Los Angeles Kings. Some of the regular season's most frustrating losses came against Anaheim Ducks, but this wasn't one...
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Battle of California Round One Playoff Schedule 2014
All three California teams made it in to the playoffs (again), and two of them meetup in the first round. Here's the schedule for all three teams.Games 5-7 for all series are, of course, only played if...
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Kings Links: Trophy Time!
Quick (and team) earn the Jennings, while team awards are announced and the regular season wraps up.We're going to have plenty of playoff preview content coming up in the next few days, so let's go...
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Better Know a King: Justin Williams
Everyone knows Anze Kopitar, Drew Doughty and Jonathan Quick are the opponents to keep an eye on when the Sharks begin their first-round matchup with Los Angeles on Thursday. In this series of posts,...
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Kings Sharks Playoff Preview: Underlying Numbers
How have these two teams fared against in terms of scoring chances and zone entries?All season long we've discussed scoring chances and zone entries and how well the Kings tend to do in both areas....
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Kings Sharks Playoff Preview: Special Teams
Hello readers! We here at Jewels from the Crown have examined the upcoming Kings-Sharks series from the perspective of zone entries and even strength matchups. Both posts look at recent Kings-Sharks...
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Wisconsin hockey recruiting: Adam Rockwood, Cameron Hughes win junior playoff...
Wisconsin recruits Adam Rockwood and Cameron Hughes kept their seasons alive by capturing titles in the BCHL and AJHL Tuesday night.Two Wisconsin men's hockey recruits from Western Canada captured...
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NHL playoffs preview: Sharks vs. Kings will be one for the ages
The Kings and Sharks are both legitimate Cup contenders. One will be done in Round 1..m-sbnation-2014-nhl-playoff-coverage { display: block; width: 100%; }.m-sbnation-2014-nhl-playoff-coverage img {...
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The Biggest Jerk
It was never even a contestFrom the very first day this project kicked off, it was clear who was going to be a frontrunner. To win it all though, you have to tip your hat to Tomas Hertl for igniting...
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Niemi vs. Quick: How concerning is the goaltending matchup?
It's still uncertain who the Sharks will go with in Game 1 but we examine the disparity (or lack thereof) between probable starters Antti Niemi and Jonathan Quick.With less than 36 hours remaining...
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Kings Sharks Playoff Preview: Goaltending
To wrap up Jewels from the Crown's Kings-Sharks preview (check out previous installments on zone entries, even strength play and special teams), we'll take a look at goaltending. The Sharks have...
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Better Know a King: Slava Voynov
Everyone knows Anze Kopitar, Drew Doughty and Jonathan Quick are the opponents to keep an eye on when the Sharks begin their first-round matchup with Los Angeles on Thursday. In this series of posts,...
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#QuackAttack: Game 1 (aka: Tweets of the night)
After every Ducks playoff game I will be selecting my top-5 tweets from the night. After a 4-3 win, here they are.(Dis)Honorable Mention: A nice message with a terrifying result.@AnaheimDucks Retweet...
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Sharks Gameday: Yet Again
The god damn Kings again? Seriously?I have to confess something you guys. I'm not sure if I have any hate left to give.For the third year in a row, the Sharks are facing the Kings in the playoffs, and...
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Kings Gameday: Didn't We Just Do This?
Oh great, is this a thing now?What the hell? Didn't the Kings just play the Sharks in a playoff series? Like, a month ago or something? Well, this is wonderful and the Kings are subjected to play up in...
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Better Know a King: Tyler Toffoli
Everyone knows Anze Kopitar, Drew Doughty and Jonathan Quick are the opponents to keep an eye on when the Sharks begin their first-round matchup with Los Angeles on Thursday. In this series of posts,...
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