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| Bernier giving Kings hope, but it's a guarded hope:
LONDON -- Defenseman Tom Preissing picked up the puck as the horn marked the end of the Los Angeles Kings' 4-1 victory over the defending Stanley Cup champions from Anaheim and handed it to rookie netminder Jonathan Bernier. Surrounded by happy teammates, it was a special moment for a 19-year-old whose career has been on a rainbow arc these past months. And who knows? Perhaps this moment, that winning puck, will mark the start of something special for a franchise whose history of drafting and developing goaltenders has been miserable. Just how long has it been since the team had a homegrown franchise netminder? "Try 40 years," offered GM Dean Lombardi. - Ouch. There was Mario Lessard, selected 154th overall by the Kings in 1974. "He had one good year and then I don't know what happened," Lombardi said. Or Jamie Storr, the seventh overall pick in the 1994 draft. Storr played in 219 NHL games, but just five in the playoffs. Hardly the stuff of legend. Not to suggest that after one NHL game -- albeit a fine 26-save performance in the NHL's first regular-season game in Europe -- Bernier is destined for greatness or the Kings are on a bust-to-boom track. |
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