Langkow’s Trick Burns LaBarbera’s Birthday (Carla Muller)

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The Kings’ defense has a funny way of wishing their netminder a happy birthday. Los Angeles now leads the league in goaltender changes within a game at nine. Before anyone tries to throw LaBarbera under a bus, caution. This loss isn’t on him. Rather, this one falls on the shoulders of the team’s defense whom aren’t named Visnovsky or Stuart. Seriously.

At the end of 20, the Kings were beating themselves and down by two goals. Preissing missed a basic tape to tape pass from Modry. Score Flames. Next, Johnson misses a pass from Blake. Score Flames Again. Ouch!!

Here was Crawford’ take on the ugly first:

The Kings turnovers in their own end were due to a “couple of costly give-aways because the players don’t want the puck. We don’t want the puck in all three zones.”