THE WEEK AHEAD

By Mike Bresnahan

Jan. 6, 2004 12 AM PT

KINGS: 3 GAMES

Wednesday, at Mighty Ducks, 7:30 p.m. PST, Fox Sports Net 2 -- The Kings finally play the other local team in the 40th game of the season. They better get used to it: Ducks-Kings play four more times before the end of February.

Thursday, Vancouver, 7:30 p.m. PST, Fox Sports Net -- The halfway point of the season for the Kings won’t be easy. The Canucks have the second-most points in the Western Conference and a couple of guys named Bertuzzi and Naslund.

Saturday, Columbus, 7:30 p.m., Fox Sports Net -- Road kill: The worst team in the Western Conference is averaging 1.95 goals a game and has won twice in 17 games away from home. The Kings, however, better not laugh too hard: Columbus was 4-0 against them last season.

-- Mike Bresnahan

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Mike Bresnahan

Mike Bresnahan previously covered the Lakers for the Los Angeles Times. He started the beat in 2004, a month after Shaquille O’Neal was traded, and covered several seasons of mediocrity before the Lakers won back-to-back championships in 2009 and 2010. Now they’re back to mediocrity. Bresnahan is from Los Angeles, started with The Times after graduating the University of Wisconsin in 1994, and has also covered the L.A. Kings, pro beach volleyball and numerous colleges and high schools. He left The Times in 2016.

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