The Kings, winners of 10 of their last 14 games, leave Monday for a four-game East Coast road trip.
CHIP SHOTS BETSY KING, the winner here in 1990 and 1991, shot a 78, her second-worst round in the 12 years she has played the event.... CHERYL ANDERSON and CANDY HANNEMANN, the two players in the tournament on a sponsors' exemption, shot 76 and 77.
The Kings' Conn Smythe Trophy winner allowed just 10 goals in the six-game first round against St . Louisbefore frustrating the Sharks, whose superior speed and passing produced nothing.
In Sydney, Federer was not yet the king of Wimbledon, winner of 16 Grand Slams, or in the conversation as one of the best players of alltime.
A low diamond would have carried the right suit preference message for clubs, but would have allowed South to play low and preserve the king as a winner.
And someone, possibly king of comedy winner Jack Whitehall, said: "I won't thank the public – I hate the public", but by that time the effects of toasting the winners were beginning to overwhelm Monkey.
It was none other than former Vuelta and multiple classics winner, king of the Tour green jersey and several times world champion, Ireland's Sean Kelly – the strongman of 1980s cycling.
She selected Andrew Sullivan's T-rex (tyrant lizard king) as the winner, but it must have been a close call with many fine paintings in that style, including works by Tony Lloyd, Richard Baxter, Julia Ciccarone, Melissa Egan, Matthew Quick, Neil Moore, Michael Peck, Darren Wardle and Heidi Yardley.
The Kings' 2012 Conn Smythe winner, Jonathan Quick, remains sidelined indefinitely because of a groin injury, a misfortune the Kings are still scrambling to overcome while they battle to get into a playoff position.
