Games 46: Kings @ St. Louis Blues 5:6

Kings come up short in front of national audience

Yutaka Fukufuji debuted in the third and saved 4-0f-5 shots

(photo courtesy of www.yahoo.com)

LA goals from: Rob Blake (2), Michael Cammalleri, Tom Kostopoulos, Matthias Norstrom
STL goals from: Rucinsky, McClement, Tkachuk, Stempniak, Weight, Wideman

Pros: Fukufuji's debut (covered elsewhere on this blog - like two or three notes down).

"I thought we played a heck of a game," Kings coach Marc Crawford said. "We had 90 percent of our players who played their hearts out tonight. We were deserving of more than we got."

I know I know: the motto of this team is "Play hard!", but I can hardly watch them lose heart-breakers like this and lop-sided ones like the most recent one against SJS, but stil lose! Today's pros corner is hence taken up by the promise of future.

Cons: Kings had a lead *three* times on the road against no better Blues team and still came out empty-handed, as the STL timely power play scores sunk our PP unit even deeper (than the ground...)