Los Angeles Kings' Dustin Brown as hit maker - and hit taker NEWARK, N.J. - Surely, the hitter must have been the hittee at some point, right? There has been constant and well-deserved talk about Dustin Brown's calling card during the Kings' long and winding playoff run, starting with his game-changing hit on Canucks star Henrik Sedin in the first round. That would be all those months, well, weeks ago. The Kings captain didn't even hesitate for a moment when asked who had delivered the biggest hit on him in his NHL career. It was Ethan Moreau, in 2009, when the Kings were playing the Edmonton Oilers, and Brown retold the incident in vivid detail. We were at home. I cut to the middle and shot and I knew he was coming," Brown said here at the morning skate, a few hours before Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final against the New Jersey Devils. Ethan is a big dude. I yard-saled. I did a whole flip, so we talked about it when he was here. I've had my licks on him. He always just brings that one at the end of the conversation. Moreau was briefly a Kings teammate and, yes, you can see how he could silence Brown by bringing that one up. Brown joked about the ease of discovering the hit on the Internet. "I'm sure you could find it on YouTube," he said, smiling. Ethan Moreau/Brown would probably be at the top of it. Brown had a lot to say about the art of hitting, because with two days between games in the Final, there has been little news to discuss. And the physical end is something that has appealed to him since his preteen days. "I remember going to peewee and being excited at the prospect of being able to hit people," Brown said. It's one of those you kind of learn as you go. I've said that before some of my biggest impact hits haven't been because I've been bigger or stronger than a guy. It's because of the timing. Timing is the hardest thing to get down. You can see it with certain players. Oshie is a good example," Brown said of theSt. Louis Blues player. He's smaller than I am and he hits harder. Iceman cometh NHL ice guru Dan Craig and his crew were on hand shortly after 5 a.m. Saturday to make sure all was well after the arena had played host to Radiohead concerts on two consecutive nights. "My patient is doing well," Craig said after the Kings' morning skate. The patient came in for a checkup. The crew did a great job. This time of year, that's what happens with Mother Nature. That's what she does. Kings left wing Brad Richardson said the ice surface was "one of the worst I've ever played on," in Game 1 but said it was equally bad for both teams. "It's kind of frustrating," said Richardson. On some of the passes you're making, you're not sure if the puck is going to roll on you or if it's going to roll when you receive it. Poor ice can make teams change their game, especially late in a period. "You want to maybe make things a little more simple, not try, if you're on a two-on-one, to make that little pass," Richardson said. It just makes you more tired slugging through all the snow.