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I'm not sure how I haven't fully appreciated how big Auger is u til tonight's game. I almost expect him to say nothing but "Hodor!".
 


When the teams took the ice for third the bad blood was boiling over and after trading shots, hits, and penalties the officials eventually lost control and a line brawl broke out between the teams and it took the officials everything they had to keep the teams goalies from attacking each other with Matt Hackett at center ice fighting to get loose to exchange punches with Reign goaltender Michael Houser.
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After the game, Brian McGrattan said the game winning goal meant a lot to him, especially against a team he said he “can’t stand.†“I don’t really like anybody on their team, starting from their coach all the way down, not one person on that team.
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Can't wait for the playoffs!
 
Amadio comes to town...hope he gets in playoff games.

Jon Rosen ‏@lakingsinsider 5h5 hours ago San Francisco, CA
Am told Mike Amadio has traveled west and should join the @ontarioreign on the ice at practice tomorrow.
 


Very impressive to see Ontario and San Diego among the top drawing teams in home attendance. Hope it keep up and hockey in SoCal continues to grow as a result of their success.
 
The Reign have always drawn well in Ontario, and with a much better product over ECHL hockey, the AHL version of the team was only poised for success at the gate. San Diego is more of surprise, as there's lots more to do in SD than in the IE in terms of the more cosmopolitan type and urban, as well as outdoor, activities that middle class people typically engage. The original and subsequent incarnations of the Gulls [Correction - thanks HansH] did so well that after their third incarnation that they took 9 years off from even fielding a team. Kudos to the Ducks for promoting the team well.

Games at the Sports Arena are a blast! The ice isn't small though [Also corrected- thanks HanH], even if the facility was built in 1966, and sight lines are great, even from the back wall. The crowd is rather stupid when it comes to hockey, even less knowledgeable than the crowd at Ducks home games, but pleasant enough. Parking price is crummy, at $15, when the base level ticket is $18.

Reign are baby Kings and play as such, very system oriented, and not terribly exciting, but are fun if you are a Kings fan, and/or like structure to your hockey. Gulls are very much Ducks, and play to win by out talent-ing the other team and they sometimes do - Ducks have an excellent prospect pool. They are fun to watch as you never know when a d-man is going to try and go coast to coast or a forward try and dangle 3 guys at the top of the offensive zone. Plus, they have many older former NHL thug types that attempt to throw big hits and to start scraps.

I really hope the Reign and Gulls meet in the playoffs, as they play only 10 min from home in SD. Uber ride to the game, $2 Bud Light, two good teams, two different styles of play, and two cool arenas in which to watch them battle!
 
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Hutch said:
The original and subsequent incarnations of the Gulls never did all that well until now.
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That's revisionist history. The WCHL Gulls were a mid-minors attendance juggernaut for the first several seasons, and the WHL Gulls lasted 8 years before being displaced by the WHA.

The rink is older than (m)any, built in 1966, and sports a small, Boston Garden sized ice sheet (it was once the home of the Bruins affiliate).
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Also wrong. The ice at the VVCC has been regulation 200'x85' for at least 20 years, if not longer.
 
Bummer...I guess Amadio and Watson don't get to play. Not sure if this includes Schmaltz. He already got in a few games.

>>Lindsay Czarnecki ‎@ReignInsider
Stothers says Paul Bissonnette will play Friday. "New" rookies won't travel, will stay back and work with development staff<<<
 
Peter James Bond II said:
Bummer...I guess Amadio and Watson don't get to play. Not sure if this includes Schmaltz. He already got in a few games.

>>Lindsay Czarnecki ‎@ReignInsider
Stothers says Paul Bissonnette will play Friday. "New" rookies won't travel, will stay back and work with development staff<<<
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The “newer†rookies, with the exception of goalie Jack Flinn, will not travel to San Jose when the team leaves tomorrow morning. That means forwards Michael Amadio, Spencer Watson, Sam Herr, Matt Schmalz and defenseman Damir Sharipzyanov will stay behind and work with the Kings’ development staff"

http://lakingsinsider.com/2016/04/19/april-19-practice-notes/
 
Part 3 of a Player's Tribune article by former Manchester Monarch Stefan Legein:



For the non-athlete readers out there, give us some slack. The reality of professional hockey isn’t millions of dollars flying around on private planes eating steak and sushi at 30,000 feet. For the very lucky that is the experience, but the reality of pro hockey is long bus rides, cold, run-down arenas, low budgets, low paychecks and a life that could make any man insane.

Yes, we love the game and when you love your job you never work. I love hockey, but some days I hate my job just like you. Just because we are doing what most wish they could it doesn’t mean it’s all a dream. Every athlete from the $30-million men to the $400-a-week man has battles he is fighting – even though our lives look so peachy from the outside, sports is a dangerous, dangerous industry and going through what I have gone through has pushed this to the forefront.
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Holy cow, thanks for sharing.

Legein was a very interesting story to me and a guy with a lot of skill, glad we got to hear all of that from his mouth and mind. THN hasn't been great lately but this was a fantastic read.
 
For those of you who haven't noticed, Saturday could be a busy day for the SAP Center. Should the Kings survive Game Five Friday night, Game Six is scheduled at the SAP Center for Saturday (game time TBA)... And Game Two of the Reign/Barracuda series is also scheduled for the same date and venue (currently a 730pm scheduled start).
 
HansH said:
For those of you who haven't noticed, Saturday could be a busy day for the SAP Center. Should the Kings survive Game Five Friday night, Game Six is scheduled at the SAP Center for Saturday (game time TBA)... And Game Two of the Reign/Barracuda series is also scheduled for the same date and venue (currently a 730pm scheduled start).
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I'm pretty sure if it goes to game 6 that it would be on Sunday not Saturday. If it was on Saturday then it would be a back to back as game 5 is tomorrow.
 
kingsboy11 said:
I'm pretty sure if it goes to game 6 that it would be on Sunday not Saturday. If it was on Saturday then it would be a back to back as game 5 is tomorrow.
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I was going to the NHL site to confirm, then I figured out what had given me that impression. On the mobile NHL app, Game Six is listed as a 9pm PDT start on 4/23 -- which translates to midnight Eastern on 4/24. And the game time is "TBA" on the main website. Some coder for the NHL mobile app didn't handle the null time properly, and represented it as "00:00" eastern time, leading to incorrect start DATE displays for anyone NOT in Eastern Time.

So, I was all ready to be berating the NHL for the back-to-back games with travel... cause it would be ridiculous. But now I see what happened. It's just a coding error.
 
Ziggy Stardust said:
Gravel has been promoted to Ontario.
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Yup. It's true.
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