KINGS WIN WITH ENERGY; 1ST WIN IN 7 GAMES : KINGS 5 TORONTO 2.Byline: Michael Rosenthal Daily News Staff Writer This is what Kings coach Larry Robinson For U.S. basketball player, see Larry Robinson (basketball). Larry Clark Robinson (born June 2 1951, in Winchester, Ontario, Canada) was a star player and a coach in the National Hockey League. He is currently an assistant coach of the New Jersey Devils. has been asking of his team: An honest effort. The result showed up on the scoreboard: Kings 5, Toronto Maple Leafs The Toronto Maple Leafs are a professional ice hockey team based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). 2 before an announced crowd of 9,083 Thursday night at the Forum. It was L.A.'s first victory since it beat New Jersey on Nov. 29 at the Forum and a huge confidence boost. The Kings (13-14-6) had been 0-5-1 in the subsequent six games. The victory gave the Kings 32 points, tied with the Phoenix Coyotes The Phoenix Coyotes are a professional ice hockey team based in the Phoenix suburb of Glendale. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). for fifth most in the Western Conference and two ahead of the idle Mighty Ducks
Mighty Ducks is a half-hour Disney animated series aired on ABC and The Disney Afternoon in the fall of 1996. Twenty-six episodes total were produced. and Edmonton Oilers The Edmonton Oilers are a professional ice hockey team based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. They are members of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). . The first period was one of the Kings' best in some time Most significant, they came out of the locker room with the kind of passion that Robinson has been pleading for, the kind of passion that results in crushing checks, fights and goals. The teams combined for 11 penalties in the first period, six of which were the direct result of fights. That kind of spirit showed up on the scoreboard in the form of four goals, three by the Kings. They scored first for only the 11th time in 33 games, Sandy Moger knocking in a rebound off a shot by Mattias Norstrom at 8:49. It was Moger's fifth goal. The Leafs' Sergei Berezin tied it 1-1 only 19 seconds later. However, the Kings struck right back in by unusual means: They scored on a power-play - Rob Blake wristing in a long shot from outside the right circle at 9:52 - after having converted only one man-advantage in their last 39 tries. Blake has five goals. Russ Courtnall gave the Kings a two-goal lead at 12:22, when Toronto goaltender Felix Potvin failed to cover a shot by Nathan Lafayette and Courtnall was there to back-hand the puck into the net. Goaltender Stephane Fiset made several outstanding saves in the period, including an inspiring one in which he knocked the puck out of air with his stick while falling. L.A. outshot Toronto 17-11 in the period. The Leafs took advantage of a Kings mistake to score a short-handed goal that made it 3-2 at 10:26 of the second period, a period marked by nine more penalties. Mats Sundin intercepted a pass from Luc Robitaille in the Kings zone and, with teammate Igor Korolev in tow, descended upon Fiset with only Blake in the way. Sundin managed to slip the puck past Blake and Korolev poked it in. The was the only goal of the period, in which the Leafs outshot the Kings 11-10. Lafayette, recalled from Fredericton of the American Hockey League
He beat defenseman Yannick Tremblay on the left side and then pushed the puck past Potvin from only a few feet away at 6:30 to make it 4-2 and create a significant challenge for Toronto, a challenge it could not meet. Jozef Stumpel scored his ninth goal on a power-play at 15:50 to complete the scoring. Notes: The Kings play Calgary on Saturday in the first game of a three-game trip. They face Chicago on Monday and Colorado on Tuesday. Then, after a three-day Christmas break, they come home for two games, against Phoenix on Dec. 27 and Vancouver on Dec. 29. . . . Robitaille is tied for No. 4 on the Kings' games-played list with Toronto coach Mike Murphy at 673. . .. Left wing Craig Johnson missed Thursday's game with the flu. He is listed day-to-day. Donald MacLean and Philippe Boucher were healthy scratches. . . . Goaltender Jamie Storr, recalled from the Long Beach Ice Dogs The Long Beach Ice Dogs were a professional ice hockey team in the ECHL. They had suspended operations at the end of the 2006-2007 season. The Ice Dogs trace their origins to the San Diego Gulls, a team in the now-defunct International Hockey League that began play in 1990. of the International Hockey League Presently, one ice hockey league is using the name International Hockey League:
Storr, 21, was drafted by the Kings seventh overall in 1994. . . . Boucher, the wife of Kings defenseman Philippe Boucher, gave birth to the couple's first child, Matthew, early Wednesday morning in Torrance. . .. Olli Jokinen, who started the season with the Kings, had three goals and two assists as HIFK HIFK Helsingfors Idrottsföreningsklubb (Finland, Ice hockey team) HIFK Helsingfors Idrotts Förening Kamraterna (Helsinki Sports Club Comrades) beat JYP JYP Jyvaskylan Pallo (Finnish Ice Hockey Team) 9-4 in Finnish Elite League game on Dec. 11. Jokinen has 15 points (six goals, nine assists) in 11 games with HIFK. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: (Color) Kings' Luc Robitaille runs into the Maple Leafs' Felix Potvin. Joe Binoya / Special to the Daily News |
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