Happy Friday, Insiders!

Consider this your LA Kings Insider Bulletin Newsletter, with three “announcements” to make regarding the site.

Not as serious as it sounds haha but here we go!

LA Kings Insider Suite Night, Part 2!
First things first, wanted to confirm the date for LA Kings Insider Suite Night, Part 2!

Thursday, April 2 vs. Nashville – Anze Kopitar Legacy Night.

I thought this night would work best for a couple of reasons.

First things first is obviously the pre-game ceremony for Kopitar! The King of Kings will be honored before the game as he enters the final regular-season month of his NHL career. The game includes an Anze Kopitar-themed giveaway item for those in attendance and will include a pre-game ceremony honoring the captain, including his recent milestone of 1,300 career points in the NHL, with two more milestones to come, as he approaches both game number 1,500 of his NHL career as well as the all-time franchise record for most points as a member of the Los Angeles Kings organization.

A cool night to be a part of! I was actually a little bit surprised there were still suites available but I was able to get one on hold. Should be a cool night for sure.

The second reasoning is that the inventory for us was better on that night. Working on a couple of potential add-ons that would not have been possible otherwise and the size suite we are looking to secure also would not have been available for one of the weekend dates that I was looking at around that time. Those games were also higher in price, so the 4/2 game was the best option in my opinion.

I do not have exact pricing at this time, because it depends in some ways on numbers, but looking at $100 a ticket maximum, likely will be slightly less than that. For those interested, please email me at zdooley@lakings.com with your interest and number of guests and I will hold your spot! For those who have attended in the past, you should have received an email this afternoon and you can reply to me there.

Excited to see everyone for another night in April!

Insider Q&A – Video Edition!
Secondly, I would like to use this post to source questions for an upcoming episode of the LA Kings Insider Show, a Q&A edition.

As you may have seen, Jared Shafran has launched the LAKI-specific video show this season, bringing on national insiders from around the NHL to provide an external, unbiased perspective on the Kings, for a wider lens. Think there’s been some good content there, most recently our interview with Kevin Weekes who offered a lot of good insight.

Taking a different approach for this episode – Looking to take your questions heading into the final 26 games of the regular season, whether those be deadline focused, team focused, summer focused or longer-term focused.

We will be recording the show on Sunday and would like to take as many questions as possible. Not every submission will be able to be used for timing purposes, but we’re hoping to showcase screenshots of your questions on the video, so that we can post the questions with full transparency and create an Insider standings page for most and best questions used :).

So, please use the comments here to send us your questions and we will answer them in a video format for a release on Tuesday.

Recent Site Activity
Thirdly, and finally, an announcement regarding what has felt to me – and certainly many others – some issues here on the site over the last little while.

There’s been a lot of hostility this season. I think a lot of that probably comes from disappointing team performance to date, which is understandable, but a lot of that discontent is being taken out, Insider on Insider. A lot of those interactions have resulted in more website bans than I’ve had to dish out in recent memory. I take no pride in that, but also need to do my best to make the site an enjoyable place for everyone on here. Sometimes, that results in these kinds of situations.

For several users who have received bans of varying lengths, I’ve spoken with you via email, but consider today a fresh start. Further violations of site rules will result in longer-term or even lifetime bans. We have to keep the website in line with the site rules that are in place and when several users are sending in the same user’s posts, over and over, there becomes a pattern that can’t be ignored.

My email is open for any thoughts here, as needed, but hoping for a little bit Kumbaya here down the stretch among the comments. Have spoken with a number of you who are hopeful for the same thing. Here’s to hoping, I suppose!

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Please post your questions in the comments here for us to answer on the video show. Hoping to get that up next week, before the Kings/Golden Knights game on Wednesday, so no games in the way to change anything that was asked. Hope to see many of you at Crypto.com Arena for the upcoming Suite Night as well, back in the regular suite for this game.