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| Bruins buy out last year of Glen Murray's contract |
NHL Hockey |
07/26/2008 |
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| free agent. Murray, 35, scored 17 goals and tallied 13 assists in 63 games for the Bruins last season. Overall he has scored 337 goals and added 314 assists in his 16- season NHL career. Murray has played 1,009 regular season games with the Bruins, Los Angeles Kings and the Pittsburgh Penguins. This was Murray's second stint with the Bruins. Selected 18th overall in the 1991 draft by the club, he entered the league with the Bruins in the 1991-92 season. Murray spent four seasons with Boston initially, and retur |
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| Dallas Stars |
NHL Hockey Transaction |
07/22/2008 |
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| Acquired forward Lauri Tukonen from the Los Angeles Kings in exchange for forward Richard Clune. |
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| Kings ink D Harrold |
NHL Hockey |
07/21/2008 |
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| Los Angeles, CA (Best E Casino) - The Los Angeles Kings re-signed defenseman Peter Harrold to a three-year contract Monday. Per club policy, terms of the deal were not disclosed. Harrold, who was a restricted free agent, recorded five points (2G, 3A) in 25 games for the Kings last season. He also picked up a pair of assists in 12 games in 2006-07 for Los Angeles. The 25-year-old signed with the franchise as a free agent in April, 2006 following a successful four-year stint with Boston College. One of his teamm |
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| NHL back on schedule again |
NHL Hockey |
07/18/2008 |
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| ll about hometown star Alex Ovechkin, and even his rival Sidney Crosby of the Pittsburgh Penguins, but that same fan didn't have as much incentive to familiarize themselves with young Western Conference superstars like Dion Phaneuf of Calgary or the Los Angeles Kings' Anze Kopitar. This all officially changed with the release of the NHL's 2008-09 schedule, which features six games against divisional opponents, four against each non- divisional team within the conference, and at least one contest against each of |
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| Kings name Murray new head coach |
NHL Hockey |
07/17/2008 |
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| Los Angeles, CA (Best E Casino) - The Los Angeles Kings named Terry Murray as the club's new head coach on Thursday. In a press conference on Thursday, the team introduced Murray as the 22nd head coach in franchise history. "I am very excited about this opportunity," said the 57-year-old Murray, who was an assistant coach with the Philadelphia Flyers last season. "This will be my biggest challenge as a coach. There is a lot of work ahead and it will take a collective effort to execute the plan we have in place |
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| Kings re-sign four |
NHL Hockey |
07/16/2008 |
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| Los Angeles, CA (Best E Casino) - The Los Angeles Kings re-signed forward Matt Moulson, goaltender Erik Ersberg and defenseman Joe Piskula to one-year contracts while inking forward Gabe Gauthier to a two-year deal on Wednesday. Per club policy, financial terms of the agreements were not disclosed. The 24-year-old Moulson tallied five goals and four assists in making his NHL debut for the Kings last season over 22 games, having split time with the Manchester Monarchs of the American Hockey League. Ersberg, 26, |
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| Philadelphia Flyers |
NHL Hockey Transaction |
07/02/2008 |
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| Acquired defenseman Patrik Hersley and forward Ned Lukacevic from the Los Angeles Kings in exchange for defenseman Denis Gauthier and a second-round pick in the 2010 draft; signed forward Glen Metropolit to a two-year contract; signed forward Nate Raduns to a one-year contract; signed defenseman Ossi Vaananen to a one-year contract; signed defenseman Sean Curry to a two-year contract. |
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| Oilers acquire Visnovsky from Kings |
NHL Hockey |
06/30/2008 |
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| Edmonton, AB (Best E Casino) - The Edmonton Oilers acquired defenseman Lubomir Visnovsky from the Los Angeles Kings Sunday in exchange for defenseman Matt Greene and forward Jarret Stoll. The 31-year-old Visnovsky, drafted in the fourth round by the Kings in 2000, had eight goals and 33 assists while playing in all 82 games last season. He's played in 499 games over seven seasons, all with the Kings and has 70 goals and 209 assists. Visnovsky is the only defenseman to ever lead the Kings in scoring for a seaso |
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| Edmonton Oilers |
NHL Hockey Transaction |
06/30/2008 |
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| Acquired defenseman Lubomir Visnovsky from the Los Angeles Kings for center Jarret Stoll and defenseman Matt Greene. |
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| Rangers' Straka returning to the Czech Republic |
NHL Hockey |
06/26/2008 |
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| HC Lasselsberger Plzen as both a player and sports director. A former first-round draft pick by Pittsburgh in 1992, the 35-year-old Straka has amassed 257 goals and had 460 assists in 954 NHL games with the Penguins, Ottawa Senators, New York Islanders, Florida Panthers, Los Angeles Kings and Rangers. He totaled 14 goals and had 27 assists in 65 games with the Rangers last year. Straka played for HC Lasselsberger Plzen before he arrived in the NHL, and also toiled for the club during the NHL lockout in 2004-05. |
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