Thx Bud Podcast

Nearly halfway through the season, the LA Kings are 2nd in the West! Jonathan Quick has earned his 47th career shutout, there may finally be light at the end of this Jeff Carter-less tunnel, and most importantly: John Stevens wants the Kings to have fun. Celebrate, dammit! Plus, USA Hockey makes history with their Olympic roster.

They've battled through some awesome highs and inexplicable lows, but the Kings have made it through 2018! Chanelle and Diane celebrate milestones for Dustin Brown and Marian Gaborik while gazing cautiously into the unknown for the rest of the season. Also, what the heck is up with Kyle Clifford?! And can Jeff Carter send fans proof of life? Anything!

One month since our last recording... the Kings are back to winning! Anze Kopitar looks more and more confident, Dustin Brown is feeling free, and the return of Marian Gaborik and Kyle Clifford mean the team has also started tinkering with the roster. Chanelle and Diane get caught up on trades and that 8-game win streak. Outside of LA, the NHL starts bgeins down the long road toward putting a team...

Two losses in the same week... Is this what being average feels like?! The Kings have faced a little more adversity recently, but Chanelle Berlin and Diane Phan focus on the bright side. Oscar Fantanberg scored his first NHL, Dustin Brown is still tearing it up, and Jonathan Quick still hates Corey Perry deeply! All is right in the world.

While the Kings continue their best start in franchise history, their old buddy Dean Lombardi is back in the news, talking about his former team. LA's last general manager still has quite a few feelings, mostly about Mike Richards. Obviously Chanelle Berlin and Diane Phan couldn't resist diving into that.

The LA Kings are currently 3rd in the NHL, which DOESN'T MAKE SENSE, but Chanelle Berlin and Diane Phan love riding the wave. Adrian Kempe is the first rookie to score a hat trick, Kurtis MacDermid has scored his first NHL goal and Jonathan Quick earns a shutout in his 500th game! It's a beautiful time for Kings fans. We're so happy to not cheer for, let's say, the Arizona Coyotes, who finally ear...

The best 5-game start in Kings history! Week 2 of the season still has Chanelle Berlin and Diane Phan basking in that winning feeling. LA's sitting pretty at the top of the Pacific division thanks to hard work from Anze Kopitar, That 70s Line, and the resurgence of Dustin Brown. Kuemper also gets his first start while young guys are buzzing for their first goals. Around the league, things turn emo...

Season 5 is live! The LA Kings are back in action and off to a promising start under new head coach John Stevens. Jonathan Quick didn't get injured after game 1, Anze Kopitar has already scored multiple goals, and That '70s Line is here to dazzle us again. Chanelle Berlin and Diane Phan dive into what's changed, what's the same, and who has them the most excited as the NHL begins its new season wi...

It’s officially the end of an era. The LA Kings fired Dean Lombardi and Darryl Sutter right after saying #ThankYouBob over the weekend to celebrate Bob Miller’s retirement. It’s going to be an offseason of many changes, folks.

The LA Kings have officially been eliminated from the 2017 playoffs. Despite that, we look at some silver linings in the organization and a couple of in-game highlights worth smiling about. And at least the Kings didn't bungle this week as badly as Gary Bettman announcing the NHL won't participate in the 2018 Winter Olympics.

The Kings need to win a lot to make the playoffs. To help this, they are... losing. More. Great plan! Plus, we dive into USA Hockey vs. the women on the national team and look ahead to who we're supporting in the playoffs.

The LA Kings’ loss to the Blues put them in more playoff danger. At least Adrian Kempe scored his first goal to bring some light to the past week! Meanwhile, the Calgary Flames can’t stop winning and the New Jersey Devils can’t stop taking Ls. Plus, we get to contemplate a future where PK Subban is the most handsome NHL commissioner ever.

The trade deadline has passed! The Kings made some unexpected moves, though one of them we all should have predicted. Meanwhile, Jonathan Quick has returned and is already hilariously confusing the new guys on the team.

Right after we talked about Claude Julien being fired, he got hired! But another guy was fired. In the west, the LA Kings came back from time off stale. At least Adrian Kempe's ridiculous and charming shenanigans have made their NHL debut. Plus, Henrik Zetterberg is thinking a lot about retirement and horses.

The LA Kings may be on a break, but we still have plenty to say! From Paul LaDue’s debut to Dustin Brown’s involvement in You Can Play — there’s a lot going on. Somehow it all devolves into us deciding which players we’d like to mistake us for Uber/Lyft drivers.

Aaand we're back! After time away, we figure out what the heck has been up in hockey. We dig into highlights we missed, where the LA Kings are now, which teams are hot heading toward the trade deadline and which teams are surprisingly cold. Oh, and Chanelle makes amends with the Blue Jackets.

The LA Kings are still more of a rollercoaster than a joyride. Oh, and a quick update: we're checking out for a while.

To celebrate franchise history, the LA Kings decided to get shut out three times in a row. Luckily fans didn't have to stay in the gutter. American hero Trevor Lewis reignited the offense, and somehow one of our Twitter followers predicted the whole thing. On the bright side, the Kings also didn't get shut out 10-0 last week like the Canadiens. It could always be worse, guys.

Happy Halloween! More Kings players have sustained injuries and the team got shut out in back-to-back games. It's all tricks for Kings fans so far this year. Meanwhile, LA's locker room culture is changing, unlikely Canadian teams are doing far too well, and there's a player in the league writing stories for your kids.

Wow! Wins! For the third year in a row, the LA Kings took three games to warm up and then earned some Ws. Tanner Pearson’s on fire, and Dustin Brown ruined the Canucks again. The biggest question is still what to do about the goaltending. Names are already circulating, including one familiar face and French-Canadian accent...

Hockey is officially back, and the LA Kings are already making life difficult. (Yay! ...Wait.) Injuries to Jonathan Quick and Marian Gaborik coupled with poor performances in their first two games have fans getting nervous. Is a disastrous Greene-Forbort pairing really what people in LA have to look forward to this year? Don't worry. Everyone can all console themselves with Auston Matthews highlig...

Remember when the Kings were in the playoffs? It was a brief, not very inspiring run. Chanelle and Diane wrap up a season that started high and ends with bizarre lows. And yet! Somehow! The Kings are still in the news for getting award nominations. There's still plenty of playoff hockey elsewhere too, luckily. Find out which teams get Thx Bud's west coast allegiance and which team just inspires an...

Kings vs Sharks, Game 4: Well, well, the Sharks have once again put the Kings' backs against the wall. Being down 3-1 in a playoff series isn't as dire as 3-0, but there's real cause for worry.

Kings vs Sharks, Game 2: Kings win 2-1 to make the series 2-1! Hope in Los Angeles. Cling to it. Protect it. Thank Dustin Brown and Tanner Pearson for reminding us what it's like to feel alive.

Kings vs Sharks, Game 2: Well, that was uninspiring. The Kings dropping both games at home means everyone now has to worry about repeating 2014 with a less cool outcome. But, hey! At least they got Marian Gaborik back.