Los Angeles is a busy sports city these days. With the Clippers, Lakers and Kings still in contention for their respective championships, there's a lot to cover. And with two basketball teams to one hockey team, you can understand why basketball might still be dominating the conversation.

But this embarrassing screengrab from NBC4 News in Los Angeles -- again, that's in Los Angeles -- is beyond the pale:

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See, this is why the L.A. Kings' Twitter account has to work so hard.

This is the second time something like this has happened, as a Miami news station in Florida got the Florida Panthers' logo mixed up with the Florida International University Panthers back in the first round. But this is worse. This is the local NBC affiliate mixing up a team in the Western Conference finals.

Hey now, NBC4, you might want to focus up and investigate the difference between basketball's Sacramento Kings and the hockey's Los Angeles Kings. Because one of them is in the playoffs in your city, and the other is neither in the playoffs nor in your city.

A helpful tip: look for the word "SACRAMENTO" on the Kings' logo. If it's there, it's a team from Sacramento.

That's the funniest part. The second funniest part is the notion that the Sacramento Kings would still be in the playoffs. I was already questioning NBC4's hockey knowledge; now I question its basketball knowledge.

s/t to Awful Announcing and Scott Whalen.

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Since it opened in October of 1999, the Staples Center in Los Angeles has had a good problem: It's home to three teams -- basketball's Lakers and Clippers, and hockey's Kings -- but only the Lakers are ever really all that competitive. In the last 13 years, the Kings have made the playoffs seven times, and the Clippers only twice; prior to this season, the two clubs had played past the first round just once each.

Springtime at the Staples Center tends to be a Laker-centric affair.

This year, however, things are different. For the first time in the history of the building, all three teams made the playoffs, and what's more, all three have advanced to the second round. (The Kings are in Round 3.)

And here's where things get especially tricky: Due to what Staples Center Senior Vice President and General Manager Lee Zeidman is describing as a perfect storm of scheduling, each of the three teams will be playing two playoff games in the building between May 17 and May 20.

The Staples Center staff will be facilitating six arena changeovers in four days.

"It's unprecedented in the history I believe of any arena," said Zeidman, "And I don't think it will ever be duplicated anywhere else but here."

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The No. 3 seed Phoenix Coyotes and the No. 8 seed Los Angeles Kings will clash in the Western Conference Final beginning Sunday night in Phoenix. It will be the largest clash of coyotes and kings since Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad. Here are 10 items for your consideration about this matchup.

10. The Kings are killing Division champions

The Phoenix Coyotes enter this series the reigning Pacific Division champions, and if the Kings' recent history is any indication, this could prove problematic. LA made short work of the Northwest Division champion Vancouver Canucks, knocking them off in 5 games. They followed that act by sweeping the Central Division champion St. Louis Blues. They eat Division champions for breakfast right now.

9. The Kings are money shorthanded

LA has a +1 goal differential when shorthanded, having allowed three power play goals and scored four shorthanded goals in the postseason thus far. There's simply no margin for error against their forecheck on the penalty kill. They cause neutral zone turnovers, disrupt zone entries, and make it Hell for the oppponent to set up. That frustration tends to lead to sloppiness, and that sloppiness tends to lead to shorthanded opportunities. It's an endless cycle.

Both the Blues and the Canucks fell victim to the Kings' fabulous penalty-killing. Will the Coyotes do the same?

144262069Oh my god the contrast in their facial expressions...

No. 1 Star: Brad Richards, New York Rangers

Richards scored the first goal in Game 7 versus the Washington Capitals just 1:32 after the opening puck drop, a one-timer from the right circle on a feed from Carl Hagelin.

It was the game's lone goal until the 10-minute mark of the third period, when the two teams traded goals in a span of 38 seconds. Richards added 4 shots, and won 14 faceoffs in the Rangers' 2-1 win.

No. 1 Star: Henrik Lundqvist, New York Rangers

Lundqvist was nigh unbeatable in his second Game 7 at Madison Square Garden in two weeks, stopping 22 of 23 shots he faced and staking the Rangers to a victory and a date with the New Jersey Devils in the Eastern Conference finals.

No. 3 Star: Michael Del Zotto, New York Rangers

Del Zotto picked up the second assist on the Brad Richards' goal, then he scored the second Ranger goal himself, knocking Alex Ovechkin off the puck at the New York blueline and tracking the play down to the other end for the insurance goal.

Two weeks ago, Vancouver Canucks' winger David Booth tweeted a photo of a black bear that he had killed during a hunting expedition in Alberta. He didn't give any insight into what weapon he used to take down the bear, but we suspected that it was a bow, Booth's noted weapon of choice.

Now we know. On Saturday, Booth tweeted a video of the kill, which is set to air on an upcoming episode of "The Edge", a program on Canadian hunting and fishing network, Wild TV. It features Booth loading his bow and firing an arrow into the bear's side.

Between Katniss in "The Hunger Games", Hawkeye in "The Avengers", and now David Booth killing this bear, I think I've seen more archery in the last two weeks than over the rest of my life combined.

I enjoyed watching the Under Armour logo come slowly into focus. Think this show has a sponsor?

Booth came under fire for tweeting the photo of the bear back on May 1, so there's no doubt that he'll likely see some flak for tweeting a video of the kill. With

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Both New York and Los Angeles host big Game 7s on Saturday night. On the West Coast, the NBA's LA Lakers and Denver Nuggets will go the distance at the Staples Center. On the East Coast, the New York Rangers and the Washington Capitals will face off for the right to play the New Jersey Devils in the Eastern Conference Final.

No doubt, with the Lakers involved, conventional wisdom says that that's the hottest Saturday ticket on the schedule. But, as it turns out, that's not actually the case. Judging from the online resale market, New York/Washington is far and away tomorrow's marquee event. From USA Today:

Tickets for Rangers-Caps are averaging $462 vs. $225 for Lakers-Nuggets, according to Joellen Ferrer of StubHub. The online ticket service is seeing 10 times the sales volume for Rangers-Caps as Lakers-Nuggets, she adds.

So what's making the Rangers/Capitals showdown the hotter ticket? Braden Holtby prom hopefuls? The rise of Jay Beagle? Maybe it's all that sexy, sexy shot-blocking?

Here are 5 things that might be giving the NHL's Game 7 the edge:

Here are your Puck Headlines: a glorious collection of news and views collected from the greatest blogosphere in sports and the few, the proud, the mainstream hockey media.

Deadspin

• Deadspin's drunk, sulking, Patrick Kane photoshop contest has produced the best photo gallery you'll see today. The image above is by Josh Zerkle. [Deadspin]

• Don Cherry has come to the defence of Ron MacLean for that unfortunate 9/11 analogy. Finally, the voice of reason. [Toronto Star]

• Eric Duhatschek thinks Ryan Suter will stay in Nashville. "If Suter is picking his destination on the basis of who is getting closer to cracking the championship code, well, probably that would be Nashville, which wins 40 games every team, perennially makes the playoffs, is solid defensively (if he stays), and is hungrier than ever. Moreover, if the Preds do get a chastened Alexander Radulov back for a full season, maybe they finally get that necessary game-breaker in the lineup, someone who (they hope) is more fully vested in team goals than he was this spring, when he broke that curfew and created an unnecessary distraction in a five-game, second-round loss to the Phoenix Coyotes." [The Globe & Mail]

• Columbus Blue Jackets' fans and season-ticket holders delivered a petition to the team with 1000 signatures calling for the immediate firings of both team president Mike Priest and GM Scott Howson. Is this the right way to go about it? [The Cannon]

• Answering the Minnesota Wild brand survey. Q: What is unique about the Minnesota Wild? "Well, they have the sweet green thirds that no one else has." [Hockey Wilderness]

• This hockey mom is suing an arena that banned her for reporting a sex offender at the rink. Weird story here. [Courthouse News]

• Martin Brodeur, one of the all-time greats, gets profiled by CNN. [CNN]

• The New Yorker wasn't so kind to Brodeur. "Martin Brodeur's accomplishments are many: he has won more games, and recorded more shutouts, than any other goalie in history. He owns four Vezina trophies, three Stanley Cup rings, and two Olympic gold medals. Yet he has not, as Devils fans know, been an exceptional playoff goalie, the kind who steals batches of games in which his team appears obviously overmatched. For all those Cups, he has not, for instance, been awarded the Conn Smythe trophy, which recognizes the postseason M.V.P., and which goalies win disproportionately." [The New Yorker]

• Enough about Brodeur. I know the guy you really want to read more about is Pierre McGuire. [New York Post]

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"You're the hardest team we've played all year," Dallas Eakins, the coach of the AHL's Toronto Marlies, told Abbotsford Heat head coach Troy Ward as the two men shook hands.

The Marlies had just scored the overtime winner in Game 5 of the second round playoff series between the two clubs, eliminating the Heat, 4-1. It was a disappointing end to what was, arguably, the best season in the Heat's 3-year history.

The Heat are the AHL affiliate of the Calgary Flames, who boast a prospect pool that was ranked 26th in the NHL by Hockey's Future just two days ago. But, while they may not be stacked with prospects, as long as Ward is behind the bench, they'll be well-coached.

The problem is, he may not be behind the bench for long. Eakins wasn't the only hockey mind to recognize how hard the Heat play; there are strong rumblings that Ward has done enough to make himself not just a candidate in the Calgary Flames' search for a new head coach, but the only publicly acknowledged candidate thus far.