Kyle Clifford

SAN JOSE -- Greetings from San Jose, where it appears that both the Los Angeles Kings and the San Jose Sharks will make changes to their lineups Saturday night at HP Pavilion for Game 3 of their Western Conference semifinal playoff series. The Kings won...

Not all playoff victories are created equal. Nor are losses. But the way the Kings won Game 2 could loom large over this Western Conference semifinal series, with Game 3 on Saturday night at San Jose. The Sharks had rallied from a two-goal deficit and...

San Jose Sharks winger Raffi Torres’ hearing with the NHL’s Department of Player Safety for his hit on Kings center Jarret Stoll on Tuesday has ended, but the league is not expected to announce its verdict until later Thursday. The...

This will be the NHL's fourth all-California playoff series. The Kings beat Oakland in seven games in a 1969 first-round matchup, the Ducks beat the Sharks in the first round in six games in 2009 and the Kings lost to the Sharks in six games in the...

Teemu Selanne will go home to Finland this summer, play some golf, rest, reflect and again determine whether he wants to return for a 21st season of professional hockey. The Ducks right wing emerged from exit interviews Tuesday at Honda Center and...

A shutout victory might look dominant on the scoreboard, but the Kings' players and coaches saw room for improvement after Tuesday night's 2-0 win over the San Jose Sharks. Mike Richards, who scored midway through the second period, did not like the way...

Based on the line rushes and defense pairs in the Kings’ game-day skate Tuesday at Staples Center, their lineup for Game 1 of their second-round playoff series against the San Jose Sharks on Monday night looks to be the same as it was for their...

Defenseman Robyn Regehr’s face is a road map of the Kings’ playoff series against the St. Louis Blues. His nose, broken in Game 1 when he was hit in the face twice by David Backes’ skate boot, was again swollen on Friday because he...

There was a good deal of playoff chatter around the Kings training facility Sunday morning. After an abbreviated skate, with the team still waiting to hear about its second-round matchup, players imagined the excitement of a freeway series against the...

Left wing Kyle Clifford was missing from the Kings’ morning skate in advance of their potential series-clincher against the St. Louis Blues Friday night at Staples Center. His place on the fourth line was taken by Jordan Nolan, creating a trio...

ST. LOUIS -- The Kings tied their playoff series against the St. Louis Blues at two games each after Kings Coach Darryl Sutter switched from using six defensemen and 12 forwards to a seven-defenseman, 11-forward lineup that brought Alec Martinez into...

addCustomPlayer('1pa1wyvorp5ui15bbnkmaphgbl', '', '', 600, 418, 'perf1pa1wyvorp5ui15bbnkmaphgbl', 'eplayer15'); When the pressure reached its nail-biting peak, when the St. Louis Blues twice took leads over the Kings on Monday and could have seized...