Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Around the league

Okay drinkers welcome to todays mix. With the Kings doing pretty much nothing but travel today I am going to touch on a few things going on in the NHL today. First off lets start with the trade. Today the ducks got Beauchemin back from Toronto in exchange for Lupul, prospect defenceman Jake Gardiner, and a conditional fourth round draft pick in 2013. The trade seems to help both teams, but as a Kings fan I hope Beauchemin disrupts the teams defense a bit and they have trouble staying in the playoff hunt. In other news today the NHL has handed down two suspensions for illegall hits. Anton Volchenkov was suspended 3 games for elbowing Zach Boychuk in the head.
Matt Cooke was suspended for an extremely dirty charging hit to Fedor Tyutin. It comes as no surprise that
Cooke would hit someone illegally, as he has quite the reputation as being the dirtiest players in the league. The
Cooke suspension may actually be helpful to the Kings as they will not have to see Cooke in a Penguins jersey 
tomorrow night. Despite all of the Penguins roster issues the Kings will have to bring a good hard working game 
tomorrow night if they intended to get the 2 important points on the line. Well drinkers until tomorrow some time 
(the Mix may get posted between periods due to an early start) have a nice evening.

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1 comment:

  1. shaping up to be a shitty night for the Kings in the scores gonna need a big three games this extended weekend

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