I am desperately trying to rev up all my Kings happiness after a yawner of a trade deadline day by Rob Blake and senior management over at Staples Center. One thing I know for sure, Robs knows how to turn potential UFAs into draft picks and put out ultimatums like this:
With the Trade Deadline now behind us, the expectations are set for the rest of the LA Kings season.
— LA Kings (@LAKings) February 25, 2019
But after that moral victory in Tampa Bay where my goosebump moment was denied after Nikita Kucherov and Victor Hedman out-filthied Anze Kopitar and Ilya Kovalchuk in the shootout, I needed a fix.