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Defending Champion Los Angeles Kings Release Shortened 2013 Schedule

Hockey is back in Southern California as the NHL lockout has come to an end and players have officially reported back to training camp.

The defending champion Los Angeles Kings have released their shortened 2013 schedule, with their first game to be played Saturday against the Chicago Blackhawks at Noon.

You can catch all the live action of the Kings here on AM 1220 KHTS.

JANUARY 2013

Date

Visitor

Home

Score

Dec

Time (PT)

TV Network/Results

Sat Jan 19, 2013

Blackhawks

Kings

 

 

12:00 PM

NBC

Tue Jan 22, 2013

Kings

Avalanche

 

 

6:00 PM

 

Thu Jan 24, 2013

Kings

Oilers

 

 

6:30 PM

TSN

Sat Jan 26, 2013

Kings

Coyotes

 

 

5:00 PM

 

Mon Jan 28, 2013

Canucks

Kings

 

 

7:30 PM

TSN

Thu Jan 31, 2013

Predators

Kings

 

 

7:30 PM

 

 

Los Angeles Kings full 2013 schedule.

 

By IRA PODELL

NBCLosAngeles.com

NHL hockey is finally back, and this time it’s official.

Nearly one week after a tentative labor deal was agreed to by the league and its players, the sides agreed to a required memorandum of understanding (MOU) on Saturday night that truly makes the lockout a thing of the past.

Training camps will open on Sunday, and a 48-game regular season will begin next Saturday. The signing of the MOU also paved the way for the NHL to release the long-awaited revised schedule.

Twenty-six of the 30 teams will play on opening day, Jan. 19. All games during the season will be played within the two respective conferences.

The defending champions, the Los Angeles Kings, will face off with the Chicago Blackhawks at noon PT at StaplesCenter. The Anaheim Ducks will travel to Vancouver to play the Canucks on opening day at 7 p.m. PT.

In all, 720 games will be played over a 99-day regular season. There will be at least one game on each day of the season, that will end on April 27. Again, 26 of 30 teams will be in action that day.

The playoffs will begin on April 30. The latest the Stanley Cup finals will end is June 28.

Teams will play 18 games within their division: four games (two home and two away) against two of the teams in the division, five games (three home and two away) against another team in the division, and five games (two home and three away) against the remaining divisional opponent.

To complete the 720-game schedule, clubs will play three games against each of the 10 remaining non-divisional opponents in their conference.

Outside the division, a team will face five clubs twice at home and once away, and play once at home and twice on the road against the other five teams.

It took another lengthy negotiation to end the four-month lockout. The sides worked on the MOU all week, after a tentative deal was reached last Sunday morning — the 113th day of the lockout — and needed all day Saturday to finish it.

The announcement that the deal was signed came several hours after the union easily ratified the tentative agreement that was reached after an all-night, 16-hour bargaining session last weekend.

The more than 700 union members had a 36-hour window from Thursday night until Saturday morning to vote electronically. The NHL board of governors unanimously approved the deal on Wednesday.

The NHL hoped to open camps on Sunday, and that prospect seemed in jeopardy Saturday until the document was signed at 10 p.m. EST.

The new deal is for 10 years, but either side can opt out of it after eight. The previous agreement was in effect for seven seasons.

While this negotiation was long, the sides were able to rescue at least part of the season. The NHL also played a 48-game campaign following a lockout in the 1994-95 season.

The 2004-05 was completely canceled because of a lockout. This one forced the cancellation of 510 regular-season games, the Winter Classic and the All-Star game.

No preseason games will be played in the seven days before the regular season gets under way.

Defending Champion Los Angeles Kings Release Shortened 2013 Schedule

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About Andrew Delgado

Santa Clarita born and raised, Andrew graduated from Canyon High School in 2007. After high school, Andrew moved on to further his education at California State University, Northridge. Andrew finished his degree in Northern California at California State University, Chico. Graduating in 2012 with a Bachelor's Degree in journalism and minor in cinema studies, Andrew joined the KHTS AM 1220 family in June of 2012, where he manages the award winning website, hometownstation.com.