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title: "Dancing in the Reign: Texas Toast-ed; Kings exposed in 4-1 loss"
url: https://kingscast.net/dancing-in-the-reign-texas-toast-ed-kings-exposed-in-4-1-loss/
description: "With tonight’s loss to the Dallas Stars , the Kings have now fallen to the 7th seed in the Western Conference . With 90 points, the Kings are one point ahead of the 8th."
published: 2026-08-19
updated: 2026-08-19
---

# Dancing in the Reign: Texas Toast-ed; Kings exposed in 4-1 loss

Published 2026-08-19

## NEWS

27 March 2010 · by Alex

With tonight’s loss to the **Dallas Stars**, the Kings have now fallen to the 7th seed in the **Western Conference**. With 90 points, the Kings are one point ahead of the 8th place **Colorado Avalanche** and one point behind of the 6th place **Detroit Red Wings**. There isn’t a whole lot of pressure coming from the 9th seed **Calgary Flames**, as the Kings are simply fighting for playoff stature. But what came from tonight’s loss? Nothing positive. A reassurance of LA’s cold offense and their struggling defense. Goals have been hard to come by lately for the Kings, and struggles in the net have begun to show. Do I dare blame **Terry Murray**? Yes. He’s absolutely butchered any of Ersberg’s confidence, and has over-played **Jonathan Quick**. Folks, it’s starting to show, and I knew it all along. If **Erik Ersberg** doesn’t get the call a couple of times before the post-season, it’s going to be a short playoff-outing for the Kings. How many times do I have to say it? A backup goalie in the playoffs is a huge factor. **Terry Murray** has killed any chance of this being a helper to the Kings come the playoffs. Enough with this, I could go on forever, and get quite angry. **Here are my notes on tonight’s game.**

**Notes on the game:**
 – Let’s start this out on a positive note. As for the Kings only goal tonight, how many times have we seen this sequence? **Drew Doughty** to **Anze Kopitar** on the sideboards, a hard wrister on net for a **Michal Handzus** rebound goal? Music to my ears, eye candy. Beautiful goal, an unfortunate high-point to tonight’s game.
 – The Stars came out with a vengeance in the 2nd period. Dallas was able to capitalize on 3 of their 9 shots in the period, setting their tone to the game. The carousel that was the Stars power-play began to run in full-force. With three second period power-play goals, and four overall, the Stars keyed in on a struggling Kings penalty-kill.
 – Former King **Brandon Segal** had a couple of solid scoring chances tonight.
 – The **Dallas Stars** earned their first victory in tonight’s **Pacific Division** season-series finale.
 – Every goal was recorded on the power-play. Tough outing for the Kings, as they only capitalized on 1 of 7 power-play opportunites, and allowed 4 goals when a man-down.

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