Jake Muzzin News

Slava Voynov of the Los Angeles Kings has locked up a six-year deal ensuring his talent to be available in LA until he is about age 30. As expected, the deal averages about $4 million a year, $25 million total, which were the numbers coming out of the Kings' Insiders over the weekend.

The 23-year-old Voynov contributed six goals and 13 points during the Kings' playoff run, which ended with a loss to Chicago in the Western Conference finals.

Defenseman Willie Mitchell of the Los Angeles Kings posted a video of himself getting a little stick time on the ice.

The Philadelphia Flyers don't have a lot of defensive options during free agency, but they will need to pursue a blueliner sometime in the offseason.

The Blackhawks' Andrew Shaw checks Kings defenseman Jake Muzzin into the boards during Chicago's double-overtime win on Saturday.

The low clouds hanging over the Kings' El Segundo training facility burned off well before noon and the palm trees swayed in the ocean breeze.

Goalie Jonathan Quick #32 of the Los Angeles Kings is consoled by his teammates as the Chicago Blackhawks celebrate after Patrick Kane #88 scored the game-winning goal in the second overtime to give the Blackhawks a 4-5 win during Game Five of the Western Conference Finals of the 2013 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs at United Center on June 8, 2013 in ... (more)

Dean Lombardi was awake until dawn after the Los Angeles Kings' Stanley Cup defense came to a crashing end in the Western Conference finals.

The Los Angeles Kings played the longest game in their history, and now their run as defending Stanley Cup champions is history.

Los Angeles Kings left wing Dustin Penner, left, scores past Chicago Blackhawks goalie Corey Crawford, right, and Blackhawks' Sheldon Brookbank during the second period in Game 4 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup playoffs Western Conference finals, in Los Angeles on Thursday, June 6, 2013.

Game 3: #1 Chicago Blackhawks at #5 Los Angeles Kings, 9 p.m. ET - Blackhawks lead series, 2-0 Up two-games-to-none and riding a five-game win streak since May 25, the Blackhawks will play their first game at Staples Center since Opening Day , when they spoiled the Kings' Stanley Cup banner-raising event with a 5-2 win.

Bryan Bickell and Michal Handzus scored on consecutive shots in the second period, and the Chicago Blackhawks chased goalie Jonathan Quick on their way to a 4-2 victory over the Los Angeles Kings on Sunday night in Game 2 of the Western Conference finals.

Bryan Bickell and Michal Handzus scored on consecutive shots in the second period, and the Chicago Blackhawks chased goalie Jonathan Quick on their way to a 4-2 victory over the Los Angeles Kings on Sunday night in Game 2 of the Western Conference finals.

Note to self/the Internet: Darryl Sutter calling some "fine" doesn't necessarily mean they're fit to play in a playoff hockey contest.

The Chicago Blackhawks and Los Angeles Kings don't have a big playoff rivalry, with just one series between the two franchises.

The Los Angeles Kings quest for a second straight Stanley Cup championship has been quite a bumpy ride at times, but it continues on.

May 28, 2013; Los Angeles, CA, USA; Los Angeles Kings defenseman Matt Greene battles for positioning with San Jose Sharks center James Sheppard in the first period of game seven of the second round of the 2013 Stanley Cup Playoffs at the Staples Center.

Center Jarret Stoll, who has been out of the Kings' lineup since he suffered a concussion in the opener of the team's second-round playoff series against San Jose, practiced for a while on a regular line Friday as the Kings prepared to open the Western Conference finals Saturday against the Chicago Blackhawks at the United Center.

It's difficult to win back-to-back Stanley Cups, for a variety of reasons, the best of which is that it's difficult to win the first one.

How does a team such as the Blackhawks, with only 7 regulation losses during the season and winner of the Presidents' Trophy with 77 points in a 48-game schedule, become an underdog in the conference finals? Last year, Quick won the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP after leading the Kings to the Stanley Cup as the eighth seed.