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This might just seem silly, but ... well, it's the Cup and all that.
Hal Gill apparently played with a broken foot or perhaps even a broken leg in the Nashville Predators playoff series against the Phoenix Coyotes. That's according to Montreal Gazette columnist Dave Stubbs, who had lunch with Gill on Friday afternoon.
#Preds Gill had plate screwed into fractured tibia 2 weeks ago, on crutches when we met for lunch. Has cool x-ray pics in his iPhone #Habs
— Dave Stubbs (@Dave_Stubbs) May 25, 2012
He deserves it! That's for sure!RT @RadioVendetta @charliesheen. Can you help Pekka be first finish player on cover of EA sports NHL Game?
— Charlie Sheen (@charliesheen) May 25, 2012
On Friday, late night talk show host Conan O'Brien said this:
The @LAKings are playing the @PhoenixCoyotes? I wonder which city that shouldn't have a hockey team will win.
— Conan O'Brien (@ConanOBrien) May 25, 2012
Damn, Conan. I thought we were friends. Forgetting the fact that the Kings and Coyotes are no longer actually playing each other and that the Kings have been a successful part of the Los Angeles sports landscape for 45 years, the "hockey doesn't belong in southern American city X" joke is pretty tired at this point.
You know the Kings responded. This is @LAKings we're talking about here.
We know you're tired of "Call Me Maybe" parodies by now. Everyone has made one, from teenagers huddled around a webcam to college sports teams and beyond. The YouTube fad has been bludgeoned to death.
But you need to give this one a chance. It involves the L.A. sports teams collaborating at Staples Center, doing all sorts of wacky things set to "Call Me Maybe." And if that's not convincing, Craig Sager singing along to the song most certainly is.
Long ago, in an NHL that never really existed, there was a concern for concussion problems and head injuries. The league implemented a "Quiet Room," to which players who had suffered any contact to the head had to go and chill out for a while before returning to action.
They took these injuries seriously and didn't allow stubborn players to get in the way.
But as we've learned in these playoffs, that's never really been the case. News of Lauri Korpikoski's postseason concussion is just the latest example.
Large team-sponsored viewing parties have become a staple of the Stanley Cup playoffs in recent years, but NBC has always been a bit of a party pooper. It all started with the awesome watch parties held outside Mellon Arena in Pittsburgh several years back, but when the Penguins reached the late rounds of the postseason in 2008 and 2009, NBC put the brakes on those events.
Why? The several thousand people watching the game together in an awesome environment weren't watching in front of their televisions, which affected NBC's ratings. Or so they said.
It seemed like NBC had come to their senses in recent years, even allowing the Devils and Rangers hold in-arena viewing parties earlier in this year's Eastern Conference final series without complaint. But ... not anymore.
The Los Angeles Kings have not exactly been shown the red carpet by the LA media corps this postseason.
While the ever-fantastic @LAKings has done it's best to combat that, their own website's production got caught with a gaffe during the post-game press conference after Los Angeles' Game 5, Campbell Bowl-clinching victory over the Coyotes.
The Los Angeles Kings are going to the Stanley Cup Final for the first time since 1993, and that's very good for hockey fans in Southern California. (Well, half of them.) It's not good for those in Phoenix, though, and Raffi Torres has to find himself at the top of the list.
The NHL's Los Angeles Kings have been the NHL's Los Angeles Kings for 45 years. They've never won a Stanley Cup, but they are on the cusp of their first Western Conference title since 1993, when the Western Conference was still the Campbell Conference.
With this success, the coverage of the team in California and beyond has picked up considerably, and ... well, there's another team in the state that wears purple and black and calls themselves the Kings. They play in the NBA, a different sport, and in Sacramento, a different city.
That hasn't stopped people from confusing the two, however, and the L.A. Kings have had just about enough of it. They've set the record straight with a handy infographic.
Staples Center played host to a wild weekend of events, with three teams -- the Clippers, Lakers and Kings -- all hosting playoff games throughout the weekend. All told, the Los Angeles arena hosted six games in four days, including a weekend that saw the floor changed from Clippers-themed to Lakers-themed, then to the Kings ice and back to the Clippers theme.
It was an amazing accomplishment for the staff at Staples Center. And now you can watch the time-lapse.
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