I Mustache You to Win a Game, Please

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The Los Angeles Kings record with the stupid fucking mustaches...5-7-0. The Los Angeles Kings record without the stupid fucking mustaches.. 8-3-0. Thank god November is over. 

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Hmm, a mustached Drew Doughty and Michal Handzus remind me of someone... who could it be?

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And as britlovesmusic pointed out tonight...

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Brad Richardson is straight outta Super Troopers.

I know this sounds horrible, but Pancreatic Cancer... you are cramping my style. Shave those fucking mustaches now and let's move into December. Which as any Kings fan knows... is usually a disaster of a month. I mean, those stupid fucking mustaches just must make it impossible for any NHL player to succeed, right?

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Oh.
The Selanne Stache sounds like some sort of sexual maneuver.

Florida is in on Thursday, that should be a great chance.... aw, who gives a fuck. It doesn't matter. Season is over. Until the Kings win their next game at least.

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Two Girls. One Cup. 
Sigh.  

Yo Sucka Sucka

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Forget about the Los Angeles Kings dismal performance Saturday night against the Chicago Blackhawks, a game in which the Kings found themselves losers of 6 of the last 7 and slipping out of the top 8 in the Western Conference for the first time this season... forget it because Kings Captain, Dustin Brown, is on the internet!!!

Courtesy of The Royal Half's Head Joke Writer....
The Top 5 Jokes about Dustin Brown dancing on stage during "Yo Gabba Gabba Live!"

5. Brayden Schenn was also at show, but in the audience sitting next to his mom.
4. Too bad the internet wasn't around when Ryan Smyth appeared on the Howdy Doody Show.
3. Why was Brown in the center? I thought Coach Murray moved him to the left side?
2. Oscar Moller and a pick for Muno... Do it Deano!
1. Pride = Passion = Peanut Butter Stomp

And then just a few hours after performing with one of the biggest hits in children's television, Dustin Brown did this. 

Blackhawks 2, Kings 1

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Toe Drag Me to Hell

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Well, if you had "Dustin Brown" in the wildly popular Los Angeles Kings board game Left Wingo... then you are some sort of Kings Savant. Coach Murray has decided to put Dustin Brown back onto the left wing and move the one player almost every fan has been asking to be on the top line... to the top line.

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Let's do this, bitches.

The plus side of this line re-combination is that we'll get to see Dustin Brown move.

Oh sorry, that should have read "Dustin Brown's move."

Yes, now that Captain Brown is back on the left side, he can return to the early years of his career where all he seemed to do was pull that toe drag move down the left hand side... and rarely score with it. With the Kings losers in 5 of their last 6, I'm sure that our Captain has taken this recent losing streak to heart and spent last night figuring out a way to get this team back on track.

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Oddly, the other line combination that I'm interested to see tonight at Staples Center is the new 3rd line of Kyle Clifford, Michal Handzus and Trevor Lewis. I only listened to Wednesday's disastrous loss to the Canadiens on the radio (I know, right? How old school! The radio!) but trust me, it probably sounded as bad as it looked. But it did sound like Kyle Clifford gets more and more comfortable on that 3rd line. And while I've been impressed with the growth of Trevor Lewis' game the past few weeks... this team has now gone from having 2 rookies on it's 4th line, to 2 rookies on it's 3rd line. While this guy sits in Manchester and waits.

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Schenn, Coach Murray sent you to Manchester so you can learn.
So don't listen to a fucking word that Zeiler has to say.
(Photo by a friend of @SaaaaaveByQuick)

Who cares who is on what line? As long as Half Season Ticket Holder Buddy and I are going to the game tonight. And we are. And I'm spending all afternoon drinking tea with a drop of honey. Not because I'm sick from the recent cold weather. No, it's so I can do this tonight...

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TUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURCO!!!
TUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURCO!!!

What's that you say? The defending Stanley Cup Champion Chicago Blackhawks and the Los Angeles Kings both have 26 points? But the Kings have it in 4 less games? This season has been a disappointment for LA so far, hasn't it? As always, check out the champion-esque Blackhawks Down Low for all your news and notes Midwestern.

Tim and Eric, Awesome Game, Great Job!

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Edmonton Oilers Superfan (and slowly becoming Los Angeles Kings Semi-Fan) JeanShorts and Bagged Milk commented to me recently that it seems like the NHL is trying to keep Ryan Smyth from reviving his career as it seems that every single one of his goals this year has come under video review. Well, last nights game in Ottawa proved that this conspiracy may be deeper than just trying to keep Captain Canada down.

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"Hey Tim, I'm still fucking pissed about this whole Colin Campbell thing."

"Yeah, but what are we gonna do about it, eh?"

"Hmm, did Campbell ever play for LA?"

"No."

"Yeah, but doesn't he live in LA with all those homos and liberals?"

"No, he lives in New York."

"Same thing. No Goal."

"Um, Eric... I don't think you can do that."

"I said no goal."

Senators 3, Kings 2, Tim & Eric, Awesome Job!

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Upper Body Injury with... the Ottawa Senators

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Last season, we did a segment called "Upper Body Injury with..." where we featured the brightest and the best of the Los Angeles Kings opponent bloggers. We hadn't really done one this season because no team was exciting enough to warrant it. But when you say the Kings are battling the Ottawa Senators... I don't think it gets more exciting than the Battle of the Brothers

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Wow, I knew Daniel Alfredsson was getting old, but I had no idea.

You probably couldn't find a team that the Los Angeles Kings have less of a history with than the Ottawa Senators. But when you dig a little deeper, you learn that 2 of the greatest fights in Kings history happened in Ottawa... Felix Potvin vs Jani Hurme... and Jim Fox vs Bryan Murray.

 

The Senators have iced a consistent playoff contender most of the last few years, even making it to the Stanley Cup Finals in 2007... only to lose to the Anaheim Ducks. But now, near the quarter mark of the NHL season, the Senators find themselves hovering around .500, and losers of 3 in a row. Now, in Los Angeles, I have hard enough time finding a bar that will turn on the Kings game... but Bloguin finds themselves with TWO (!) Ottawa Senators blogs. So The Royal Half sat down with the Podcast Overlords at The 6th Sens to see what Canada's Capital thinks about Bob Kudelski's hat tricks... or Dany Heatley's No-Trade-Clause... or John Muckler's legacy... check it out after the jump! UPDATE: To see my answers to The 6th Sens questions check them out here

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Pundays: Seven Minutes in Heaven

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Being a writer means taking chances. And just because you are spending your nights waiting for hockey games across the country to finish doesn't mean that you can't take a chance. So for one certain NHL.com pun headline writer, Saturday night's Western Conference Final rematch between the Vancouver Canucks and the Chicago Blackhawks... was their time to shine.

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Posted just a few minutes before the 7pm PST start.

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Posted just minutes after the Blackhawks 7-1 win.
Actually, it turns out that this particular writer is just a huge fan of the former CW show, 7th Heaven.

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East Coast Ugly

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In the sport of ice hockey, the captain of the team is the person who speaks for the franchise... the person who meets with the press, who motivates the team in between periods and who tweets about the game from his smartphone while riding the bus back to the hotel to play video games with his teammates. 

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I couldn't have said it better myself.

Kings 4, Bruins 3

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Left Wingo

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Another day, another Left Winger for the Los Angeles Kings top line. If it wasn't for the horrific problem of finding a franchise goaltender that has plagued this team for the past 20 years... the search for a top line left winger would be all the rage. (Oh, yeah, right. That happened.) Well, we've done something similar to this before here at TRH... but today, we present the latest board game craze ... Los Angeles Kings Left Wingo!

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That's right! When the Los Angeles Kings take on the Buffalo Sabres today, you can play along at home with who is playing left wing... and try to win Los Angeles Kings Left Wingo! For a big ass version to play along at home, just click here!

Home Schooled

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Sometimes in Mid-November, your favorite hockey team drops 2 games in a row to NHL teams that have funny colored uniforms. But also, your favorite hockey team holds a fan event that allows this screengrab to now live on the internet.

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Last night really ends up as a win in my opinion.

Blue Jackets 5, Kings 3

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A Hairy Loss

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Well, even if last night's broadcast of the Pacific Division battle between the Los Angeles Kings and San Jose Sharks didn't bring the confirmation that this team is ready to be an elite NHL team and actually show up for important games that could help define it as an elite NHL team... at least it brought us this...

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My new fantasy team name is "Dean Lombardi's Mullet"

... and this...

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"Hello, my name is Drew. The City of Los Angeles has required
me to tell you that I've recently moved into this neighborhood.

Sharks 6, Kings 3, Mullets and Mustaches 447,270,970,732

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