Five years ago today, I opened up this little slice of internet to desperately thin fanfare. Nearly 3,000 posts, 10.5 million pageviews and 3,500 registered community members later, I'm quite proud of what's been created for Kings fans local and abroad.

I hate these long Oscar acceptance speech blog posts, but I would be remiss to thank all the loyal readers and especially my co-writers section214, Exhibit G, Aykis16, rbiegler and (from back in the day) louismg. I also couldn't do it daily without the great social and technical support of the SBNation team, especially Tyler Bleszinski.

But enough of that. As the great Donte Greene would say: Lehs go!