The Kings are enjoying in Edmonton this weekend with an opportunity to comb the Oilers and win their first playoff collection since their Stanley Cup championship run in 2014.
Hopefully the Kings didn’t overlook any of the necessities whereas packing for such an enormous journey.
“Pack your harmonicas,” the Kings’ X account posted following the staff’s 6-2 win over the Oilers on Wednesday night time at Crypto.com Area. “We’re taking this show on the road.”
That’s proper, harmonicas. Simply two video games into the 2025 playoffs, the free-reed musical instrument has turn into the Kings’ unofficial postseason good luck attraction — because of some memorable pregame performances of “The Star-Spangled Banner” performed by a gaggle representing the Koreatown Senior and Neighborhood Heart.
Positioned about 2½ miles west of the Kings’ residence enviornment, the middle presents 47 packages attended by roughly 1,500 individuals every week, in line with public relations supervisor Gloria Y. Kim. A harmonica class was launched seven years in the past, and the group began working towards the U.S. nationwide anthem in 2021.
On June 7, 2023, a number of class members performed the anthem to start out a Los Angeles Metropolis Council assembly at Metropolis Corridor.
In January, Kim mentioned, the middle was contacted by the Kings, who have been planning for his or her Okay-City Evening to be held March 23 when the staff hosted the Boston Bruins. Kwanil Park, the middle’s government director, instructed that the harmonica group reprise its efficiency of “The Star-Spangled Banner” earlier than the sport.
The Kings favored the concept, Kim mentioned. So 13 ladies and one man from the harmonica class, wearing conventional Korean hanbok, appeared on the recreation and performed the anthem “to an overwhelmingly positive response.”
The harmonica class was invited again for Recreation 1 towards the Oilers on Monday, Kim mentioned. This time the group was composed totally of girls, once more dressed of their conventional garb.
Members of the Koreatown Senior & Neighborhood Heart’s weekly harmonica class carry out the nationwide anthem earlier than the Kings’ playoff recreation towards the Edmonton Oilers on Monday at Crypto.com Area.
(Koreatown Senior and Neighborhood Heart)
“It was a truly moving moment when the crowd sang the national anthem along with our harmonica performance,” Kim mentioned.
After the Kings’ wild 6-5 win that night time, the staff’s X account posted a gaggle of pictures from the sport with the caption, “The power of the harmonicas.”
That led to Wednesday’s anthem efficiency by the harmonica group, this time sporting Kings jerseys. After the win, the staff’s X account declared, “The HarmoniKings are 2-0.”
The collection strikes to Edmonton for Recreation 3 on Friday and Recreation 4 on Sunday, however the Kings can be again residence in some unspecified time in the future this postseason — both for potential Video games 5 and seven towards the Oilers or within the subsequent spherical and presumably past. Does that imply that native hockey followers haven’t seen the final of the Koreatown senior heart gamers as a part of the pregame festivities?
“We are currently discussing it with the LA Kings,” Kim mentioned.
