Well, the Kings didn’t win 3 in a row but they played a good game against the Oilers. The game was a low scoring, pre-lockout affair, tied 1-1 after regulation. The Kings goal was scored by Pushkarov, a 21 year old call up from Manchester. It was his first goal. He’s been on a line with Kopitar and Brown. Brown is the old man at 23 years old, with Kopi coming in at 19 years old. Anyway, the Kings lost in OT but Garon and the D looked good, the offense had many chances but just couldn’t find the back of the net, and Pushkarov looked good.
Tonight has a strange story with it. Annette and I decided to go to tonight’s game because it was College night and since we have IDs from our graduate work at Pepperdine, the tickets were only going to cost $10. To minimize our hassle, I decided to call our ticket rep so he could get the tickets for us and save me the effort to get my credit card authorize while standing at the box office. I wasn’t sure he could do this but I figured it was worth a try. Good thing I did. It turns out that college night, contrary to the Kings website and ads on Fox Sports Net, is next Thursday and continues for every Thursday for the rest of the season. Crap, I thought, no tickets for the game. Our rep could hear the disappointment in my voice, I guess, and he told me that he would see if you could find me some comp tickets for me. He wasn’t promising anything and that they would probably be upstairs. Upstairs was fine, especially if they were comp. Turns out he found us tickets downstairs, at about the same distance away from the ice as our normal seats. Sweet. My ticket rep rocks.