LA Kings – Page 4

The captain of my beloved Los Angeles Kings, Dustin Brown, is one of the best players in the NHL. Unfortunately, he hurt his hamstring at the start of training camp and is only just now coming back from it. This means he missed a lot of camp and so he is “rusty,” according the Darryl Sutter, the head coach.

As a result, Brownie isn’t on the first line in the Kings’ season opener. He’s got a place on the third. I’m 100% certain he’ll move back up. He just needs a few games under his belt. They’ve all just come off three months of no hockey. They were all rusty coming into camp, but everyone but Brownie rid themselves of the rust during camp and during those pre-season games.

And you know what? Brown would be the first person to tell you, that’s the way it is and that’s the way it should be. In professional hockey, you earn your place on the line.

Man, I love this sport.

Over the past few months, I’ve been casually informing John Hoven of MayorsManor.com, an LA Kings blog, when I saw typos in his articles. As you know, I love the Kings, and I often turn to Hoven’s site for great interviews and such.

Hoven has been grateful for my help in proofreading. As any writer knows, it’s difficult to proof your own writing, and I’ve been doing it because I would want someone to do the same thing if I had typos on my website.

Anyway, a couple of days ago, he tweeted jokingly,

Need you to just start transcribing quotes after the game and I’ll really be dialed in!!!

I asked him if he was serious and he was. So, last night, I transcribed two interviews he conducted, one with Colin Fraser and the other with Jeff Schultz. It was more time consuming than I’d anticipated! Sometimes the players don’t speak clearly and I had to rewind four, sometimes five times. But it was still fun.

I’m hoping that in return, since I’ve volunteered to do this free of charge, that someday in the future, he’ll see fit to introduce me to some of the guys on the team and/or give me a little tour of the player areas. That would be SO AWESOME for my research.

But I’m just keeping my head down right now, doing the job and getting him all beholden and stuff. Heh heh.

Would you work for free in order to meet someone famous? Who would it be?

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