Greetings from Detroit, where it was 8 degrees and sunny outside as the Kings arrived at Joe Louis Arena for their morning skate in advance of their game against the Red Wings on Thursday night. Their charter flight out of snow-battered Buffalo on Wednesday afternoon was delayed about an hour; my commercial flight was delayed six hours. Ah, the joys of winter travel.
Jeff Zatkoff was the first goaltender off the ice and is likely to start Thursday night in his hometown, as the Kings begin a sequence of back-to-back games that will conclude Friday in Pittsburgh.