Kings Gameday: My Favorite Thing About Mike Richards

by RudyKelly on Jan 19, 2012 9:18 AM PST

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Thursday, Jan 19, 2012, 7:30 PM PST
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You know what my favorite thing about having Mike Richards on the Kings is?

It's not the fact that he's really good and he's smart and he seems to try really hard.

It's not that he does that thing great players do where he seems to get a 3-step jump on people because he's noticed where the puck is going before anyone else.

It's not that he's actually not as much of an asshole as I thought he'd be or that he jumped in after Brenden Morrow destroyed Kopitar last week.

It's not that he's pretty much what you'd get if you turned Canada into a hockey player.

It's that he is all of those things... and Anze Kopitar is pretty clearly better than him. It's not even all that close!

Anze rules.

This might come as a shock to some of you but Drew Doughty is still pretty much a kid. Also he's annoying:

Prediction: Kings win, 3-2. Goals by Anze (x2) and Richards.

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Boy I’ll bet Doughty and Couture are a lot of fun when they hang out together.

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by Megalodon on Jan 19, 2012 9:43 AM PST reply actions

“Doughty Couture” sounds like a trendy clothing line for fat people.

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by RudyKelly on Jan 19, 2012 9:53 AM PST up reply actions 7 recs

Mike Richards is the man.

by ScottyKnows on Jan 19, 2012 10:23 AM PST reply actions

whatthe hell is is he doing to voynov??

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by Quisp on Jan 19, 2012 10:52 AM PST reply actions

As if the culture gap isn’t large enough. Boy, I can only imagine the conversations Voynov and Loktionov have in Russian.

by klink3115 on Jan 19, 2012 12:10 PM PST up reply actions

God that laugh. I wanted to throttle him half way through the video.

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by kk_gizmo on Jan 19, 2012 11:03 AM PST reply actions

almost as bad as spezza’s…

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by sleza on Jan 19, 2012 11:29 AM PST up reply actions

Bernie Nicholls!

by meetyourmako on Jan 19, 2012 11:07 AM PST reply actions

Has anyone ever seen bernie nicholls and nocholas cage in the same place at the same time?

by MIK3Ysfv on Jan 19, 2012 6:13 PM PST via mobile up reply actions 1 recs

It’s uncanny, really.

by meetyourmako on Jan 20, 2012 12:41 AM PST up reply actions

I’m always surprised when I really think about it and realize that some of these hockey players are the same age as I am. I think of hockey players being “old”, and then I realize that Kyle Clifford was born only a month before me…

by klink3115 on Jan 19, 2012 12:06 PM PST reply actions

In this week's edition of "Hahaha, Darryl Sutter Owns..."

Back to Sutter, he’s no stranger to major head injuries. During the 1983-84 season, he was hit by a slap shot from teammate Doug Wilson. Sutter fractured his left cheekbone and had damage to his eye, but missed only 18 games.

SUTTER: "I got a football (face mask) from Mike Ditka, from the Bears. That was before all this new Plexiglass and all this stuff. I either had to get Joe Girardi’s catching mask or something from the Bears. It was either the Cubs or the Bears. That’s what I got. That was hard.

"You had a handful of guys that didn’t wear helmets on your team, so anything you did that (required) face protection, you were improvising, because you didn’t have it. You didn’t have access to it. Very seldom did anybody ever put a… I can’t remember if there was ever, there might have been a European player coming over that had a shield, but if somebody was hurt, usually they wore a screen or a football (grill).’’

It was suggested to Sutter that playing with the oversized face grill must have made it difficult to play the puck.

SUTTER: "Guys like me, it was just hard anyways. I probably would have been better blindfolded.’’

The West Coast is the Best Coast.

by RudyKelly on Jan 19, 2012 1:08 PM PST reply actions 1 recs

Sutter is awesome. When he was leaning over with his arms around doughty and johnson explaining stuff. It’s those types of coaches that players respect the most imo.

by ScottyKnows on Jan 19, 2012 1:53 PM PST up reply actions

Earthbound is the greatest game ever.

by Red Rodent on Jan 19, 2012 2:24 PM PST reply actions

It really is.

The West Coast is the Best Coast.

by RudyKelly on Jan 19, 2012 2:44 PM PST up reply actions

Rudy, dunno if you wanna update your Taylor Hall equation to include Two Face or whatever but the new result is this

If you imagine a salt shaker in your hand, tilt your head back
and act like you're shaking salt into your mouth; you will taste salt if you concentrate hard enough.

by brokenyard on Jan 19, 2012 2:35 PM PST reply actions

He’s going to look really cool in a few months if that scars up.

The West Coast is the Best Coast.

by RudyKelly on Jan 19, 2012 2:44 PM PST up reply actions

probably just get a bunch of harry potter jokes the rest of his life.

by meetyourmako on Jan 20, 2012 12:45 AM PST up reply actions

This is a true post

Richards is great and Anze is a beast. How cool is that for us? :-)

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by TracyM on Jan 19, 2012 4:06 PM PST reply actions

trade for a goal scorer

scoring goals is important.. asdfasdfaf

by duckyou on Jan 19, 2012 10:19 PM PST reply actions

Oh great. My least favorite kind of Ducks fan. :)

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by Earl Sleek on Jan 19, 2012 11:45 PM PST up reply actions

That game was boring as shit. Nice to see Penner still sucking it up. Sweet moves by Loki

by ScottyKnows on Jan 20, 2012 8:47 AM PST reply actions

I wonder what the chances of the Ducks landing Gill I’d love to see him in a Ducks’ uni.

by ScottyKnows on Jan 20, 2012 11:00 AM PST reply actions

Do you miss Andy Sutton that much?

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by RudyKelly on Jan 20, 2012 11:04 AM PST up reply actions

That’s a poor comparison. I’d say he’s a better Matt Greene. Sound positionally, doesn’t take stupid penalties, and uses his reach well.

by ScottyKnows on Jan 20, 2012 11:57 AM PST up reply actions

hahaha

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by Nut on Jan 20, 2012 4:45 PM PST up reply actions

Key word, BETTER!

by ScottyKnows on Jan 20, 2012 5:01 PM PST up reply actions

I think your NHL knowledge comes through radio, or maybe braille. Oh yeah, and Cam Fowler sucks.

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by Nut on Jan 20, 2012 5:09 PM PST up reply actions

Hal Gill is awesome and he’d make a great addition to our team. If he can hang in the speedy Eastern Conference, he’d do great with the Ducks on the WEst coast. Get off my nuts.

by ScottyKnows on Jan 20, 2012 5:21 PM PST up reply actions

Right, he’s a better Andy Sutton

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by Nut on Jan 20, 2012 6:14 PM PST up reply actions

Oh yeah, and Cam Fowler sucks.

I was pretty bad at 20, too.

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by Earl Sleek on Jan 20, 2012 6:45 PM PST up reply actions

Player issues aside, I have no idea why the Ducks would be buyers this year.

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