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The day after a wildfire destroyed his Yorba Linda home and left nothing standing but two brick pillars, Craig Milhouse reported for work as the Ducks' team doctor.
The Kings thought they deserved a better fate Saturday than a 3-1 loss to the Nashville Predators, but players on losing teams often say that even when it's not remotely close to the truth.
The Ducks' first game under their new general manager, Bob Murray, went much the same way as the last few they played before Brian Burke stepped aside.
On his first day as the Ducks' former general manager, Brian Burke traded his suit for jeans and sandals, perfectly suitable year-round in Anaheim but not the best choice for November in Toronto or wherever he spends the next hockey season.
For the Kings, still in the early stages of their latest but most promising rebuilding process, progress is usually measured in small increments.
The puck was fluttering, but Scott Niedermayer was prepared to do what he had done in a million similar situations: knock it down in front of him so he could cradle it on his stick and get it out of his defensive zone.
The Kings found a way to end a five-game winless streak:
This is Part 2 of The Times' interview with Tim Leiweke, Kings governor and AEG chief executive. He discusses, among other things, his relationship with General Manager Dean Lombardi, why he approved Lombardi's signing Anze Kopitar, Matt Greene and Dustin Brown to long-term deals, his take on Forbes' recent valuation of the franchise and the Kings' current financial state.
Tim Leiweke is chief executive of AEG, which owns the Kings and an array of sports and entertainment venues and companies around the world. He is the Kings governor and an avid fan, but his main focus now is overseeing the development of LA Live, the $2.5-billion sports-entertainment-residential complex downtown.
So that's what happens when a Kings goaltender smothers shots and doesn't leave rebounds that slither under his arm or slip between his pads and saddle his team with deficits it can't make up.