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About This Page: This is a discussion on LA Kings Talk within the LetsGoKings.com forums, at Los Angeles Kings Hockey Fan Forum. To the Los Angeles Kings management,
I want to communicate to you how shocked and disappointed I am in AEG and the KINGS for failing to acknowledge Officer Randy Simmons'
I want to communicate to you how shocked and disappointed I am in AEG and the KINGS for failing to acknowledge Officer Randy Simmons's sacrifice at tonight's Calgary vs. Los Angeles Kings hockey game.
Friday, February 15th 2008 is a day where the entire city of Los Angeles stopped to salute and honor one of her Finest Sons. I am curious as to why the KINGS Organization did not acknowledge a true hero of the city they claim they "play" for?
Why wasn't there a moment of silence? Was it a lack of awareness? A lack of respect? Please do not tell me that it was an oversight. This season the Kings have done a good job of recognizing members of the various armed services, but when it came to honoring a Public Servant who made the ultimate sacrifice for the citizen's of Los Angeles the Kings and AEG failed.
After the Brush Fires this past fall, where several fire fighters were lost, the Kings held several fund raising events for those fire fighters and their families. I am really disheartened to see that on the day when the entire city honored a true hero, the KINGS organization did not have the respect, insight and heart to do the right thing and take a few moments to recognize Officer Simmons' sacrifice. There were LAPD officers who probably just came from the funeral working tonight’s game! What message did the Kings send to them?
The loyal fans and season ticket holders in my section were appalled. I spoke to a representative of the Kings that was near my section during the first period and he did not have a response other than to say he was sorry but I could see in his eyes that he realized the Kings messed up.
AEG and the Kings you should be ashamed of yourselves for your lack of vision. There were fans from Calgary who were on road trips that were commenting on how sad it was to hear about Officer Simmons death and they wondered why nothing was said at tonight's game.
It is truly sad that the only King who showed support for Officer Simmons is the Burger KING that donated all of the proceeds from an entire day to the Police Memorial fund.
I am curious to hear a response from the organization.
Am I off base here? Was anyone else wondering why there was no moment of silence? If so please post your comments and also share them with the Kings Organization.
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Are you a police officer? Did you know him personally? If so, I'd like to offer an honest advice - don't put the blame on yourself or any other person (or organization) because of the death. I had to bury my grandma couple of weeks ago and I realized that every person at the funeral was blaming himself, herself or maybe even someone else for something. It's the worst you can do, because even if you'd have done everything you are blaming yourself for, you would still find something else. Funerals and deaths are all about regrets, I realized.
If you are not closely connected to the officer, I will say, that you are probably overreacting. But that's only my opinion. Respect to the guy, life goes on, people die. I don't think that Kings organization deserves the post you wrote. It's a classy organization.
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I think you're taking things a little far I'm not agitated like yourself about it but I've never been one to dwell on things such as this. He was a great man who was selfless and it truly is unfortunate and saddening what happened to him, but Los Angeles' finest do their jobs for reasons that don't include announcing their names at hockey games...he is after all not the first or last officer to lose his life on the job, and to expect the Kings to honor him would mean honoring all the rest...I'm sure the Kings didn't honor Landon Dorris who was KIA (killed in action not the car) in 2006. It just seems a bit pretentious to me to be so affected by the man's death to be so distraught over it (guarantee you 95 percent of us didn't know him) and to be so disgusted with Kings management over it is just silly. If honoring him is so important...do it for yourself and in your own heart cause that's what matters...not 10 seconds of forced awkward silence in a hockey arena where most of the crowd would spend that time to examine their shoes or listen closely for anyone coughing in their vicinity.
That said, my condolences go out to Officer Simmons's family.
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Last edited by Westbound65; February 16th, 2008 at 03:08 AM.
I must admit too that I was disappointed by lack of acknowledgement by the Kings to the tragic death of Ofcr. Randy Simmons. I woke up on Fri morning at 10:00 AM to watch the service (I would have went but I'm getting over a cold and my coughing during the service would have been rude IMO) and 7 hours later I was totally drained. As many people know, I have been a police officer for 13 years, 6 with Pasadena PD and the last 7 with Anaheim PD. I have been to way too many funerals in the past 13 years than I care to remember. This funeral, as with the others, was very sad and I was emotionally spent afterwards. Whenever I watch another brother officer get buired I tend to reflect on my own mortality and just think that, that could be me one day.
The wife and I went to last nights game and I was hoping that would cheer me up a bit. While driving to the game, even though I was trying to forget the funeral, I hoped there would be some sort of moment of silence for Ofcr. Simmons at the game. After the national anthems played I hoped for the moment of silence but there was none. It would seem fitting as we are the "Los Angeles" Kings and the city had just laid to rest one of its heros earlier that day.
I would say though the city felt that Ofcr. Simmons was a special person enough to have a police officer funeral the size that has not been seen since Chief Parker died many years ago. This was probably the largest police officer funeral that I have ever seen at close to 10,000 attendees. There were officers from around the country and even around the world such as Canada and Israel. I'm not saying that the Kings needed or need to honor every fallen LAPD officer but maybe just this once it would have been nice. I don't do my job to be recognized or loved by the people, in fact I know that a number of people despise what I do. But if you watched the funeral procession today you saw that a lot of people were able to put their feelings aside to honor not only a great officer but a great human being as well. I would like to think it was an oversight by the organization but whatever the case it was a terrible shame that Ofcr. Simmons was not honored. Am I mad at the organization, no, just a little disapointed.
But watching our boys win sure did cheer me up a little though.
Last edited by SloMo26; February 16th, 2008 at 04:03 AM.
I honestly didn't know an officer died either. My question is... did the Ducks do it? If the Ducks had a moment of silence for the fallen officer tonight, and the Kings didn't... then yeah, complain away. Otherwise, it felt a little bit over the top there. That's just my opinion anyway.
but Los Angeles' finest do their jobs for reasons that don't include announcing their names at hockey games...he is after all not the first or last officer to lose his life on the job, and to expect the Kings to honor him would mean honoring all the rest...I'm sure the Kings didn't honor Landon Dorris who was KIA (killed in action not the car) in 2006.
You are correct that we do not do this job to be recognized at a hockey game. But neither do the many men and women in the US armed forces. There have been thousands killed over in Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. But the organization still honors them by having a representative of the armed forces at the opening of every game this season.
Like I have already said, I'm not mad just disapointed.
N0 Moment of silence for Slain LAPD officer? 
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