PDS in El Segundo (game day three)

The Kings have been killed by killing penalties called graciously against them by the refs, and spent most of the time in a 2:4 loss to the prospects of the Phoenix Coyotes in penalty kill units. The team was missing several key components (Kopitar, Petiot [on crutches, will not come back], Pushkarev and Tukkonen [his shoulder injury effects still prohibit him from playing]). It looked that past the first scoring line of Danny Roussin - Trevor Lewis - Greg Hogeboom, the Kings had almost no-one to look up to.

Possibly with the exception of Ned Lukacevic (two assists) and John Zeiler (goal and assist). Zeiler as well as free-tryout defensemen, Craig Schira, have really made cases for themselves during the PDS. It's gonna be exciting to see how, and if, they pan out for the Kings.

Here's the full lineup:

Roussin-Lewis-Hogeboom
Moulson-Lukacevic-Holloway
Stephenson,S.-Korchinski-Zeiler
McLaren-Seymour-Murphy

Mormina-Werner
Harrold-Ryan
Greenan-Schira

Taylor

Unfortunately goaltender Daniel Taylor is on the hook for two Coyote goals, especially the one where he misplayed the puck on a pass to his defensemen and let the slap shot from across the blue line beat him out of position. Not a good way to keep Dean Lombardi (watching the game) and the rest of the crew happy.