Quotes from LA locker room after big New Year's Eve win

It may have taken 20 years, but the Kings have finally exercised the demons of their only other home game played on New Year's Eve.

On that fateful night back at the Forum in 1991, then-goalie Daniel Berthiaume gave up five unanswered goals to the Vancouver Canucks in the third period - resulting in a 5-3 loss. This time around, the Kings flipped the script. They gave up the first goal of the game and then followed with markers of their own by Brad Richardson, Matt Greene, Anze Kopitar and Justin Williams.

The Kings are now 4-0-2 under coach Darryl Sutter and after things were over, here's what he and a few stars of the night had to say...

Sutter on the overall game - "We’ve been playing pretty good. If you get a chance like the Chicago game or the Winnipeg game there are a lot of steps that we’ve tried to make and tonight there was contribution from different guys which was really good."

Sutter on Kopitar - "He scored a big goal and that makes him feel good again. He’s been struggling with scoring but he’s getting a lot of shots and that’s what we’ve been trying to re-enforce, keep shooting. We had two or three of those plays. Mike Richards had that same type of play. I thought [Jarret] Stoll’s line had a lot of those opportunities, too, and the kid’s, [Andrei] Loktionov’s line. They’re all good."

Greene on the overall game - "We’ve been having success on all four lines. That’s what we did. We got a big goal out of our third line tonight and that’s what it takes sometimes…They score and then we get one right away. That’s a confidence boost knowing that they’re not going to push us back and we’re going to keep going."

Halloween 2011 with the Los Angeles Kings players

Last week, Alec Martinez shared some early Halloween thoughts here on MayorsManor, revealing that teammate Justin Williams made a mean DJ Pauly D at the team's annual costume party. Apparently, Simon Gagne's clown get up was quite popular as well.

Until some of those pictures start to surface, check this video out...

Here's Jonathan Quick, Jarret Stoll, Mike Richards, Matt Greene and Kyle Clifford with their take on the classic Rick James tune Super Freak.

If you were ever thinking of inviting Stoll or Greene to one of your parties - you've now been warned, they steal the show.

On Labor Day weekend, we had Dustin Brown, Dustin Penner, Drew Doughty and Jack Johnson singing the American classic 'Take me out to the ballgame.' If you missed that video, check it out here.

Happy Halloween everybody!

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