Los Angeles Kings

D · Los Angeles Kings

A fourth-round pick who quietly plays the hardest defensive minutes on the team and produces almost nothing, on purpose.

RW · Los Angeles Kings

A big Finnish winger who kills penalties, disappears for a month at a time, and then scores three goals in a week.

RW · Los Angeles Kings

Six-five, 230 pounds, and skates like a winger half his size — the question has always been what he does with it.

D · Los Angeles Kings

Nine hundred and fifty games of steady, unloved, entirely necessary defensive minutes.

D · Los Angeles Kings

A 22-year-old right-shot defenceman who already runs a power play and is still learning where to stand without the puck.

D · Los Angeles Kings

Eighteen years, two Cups and 1,279 games in one sweater, still playing the most minutes on the team.

D · Los Angeles Kings

A two-time Cup winner whose entire job is to make sure nothing happens, and who is very good at it.

D · Los Angeles Kings

Six-five, mean about it, and last season the man asked to make a 22-year-old's mistakes disappear.

LW · Los Angeles Kings

The most naturally skilled forward on the roster, and the one whose season you can never predict in October.

G · Los Angeles Kings

A journeyman backup who quietly outplayed the starter last season.

C · Los Angeles Kings

A small, quick forward on his third organisation, with 41 NHL games to make an argument with.

LW · Los Angeles Kings

A thirteen-year veteran who takes the faceoffs and the defensive-zone starts, brought in to steady the middle of the lineup.

C · Los Angeles Kings

Six-foot-six, plays eight minutes, and is on the roster because of what he is rather than what he has done.

RW · Los Angeles Kings

The rare winger who is his team's leading scorer and its best defensive forward at the same time.

G · Los Angeles Kings

A Stanley Cup starter having a mediocre season on a team that gave up too much of the wrong kind of chance.

RW · Los Angeles Kings

A third-round pick who has turned into a genuine top-six winger by doing the unglamorous parts properly.

C · Los Angeles Kings

A checking centre with a first-round pedigree who long ago made peace with what he is.

LW · Los Angeles Kings

An undrafted winger who out-works his way into a top-six role and has never once looked comfortable there or out of place.

LW · Los Angeles Kings

An undrafted Russian who became one of the great playmakers of his era, still producing at a rate that makes the defensive arguments academic.

RW · Los Angeles Kings

Forty-one years old, 1,464 games, and still standing exactly where he has always stood: in the goaltender's eyes.

D · Los Angeles Kings

A gifted small puck-mover who has spent five professional seasons unable to stay healthy or hold a spot.

C · Los Angeles Kings

The fifth pick in 2019, six years on, still trying to prove he belongs in an NHL lineup.

RW · Los Angeles Kings

An undrafted winger who reached the NHL at twenty-seven and spent last season proving he can hold a fourth-line job.

RW · Los Angeles Kings

A rookie sixth-round pick with 23 games, no goals, and an entirely open question in front of him.

C · Los Angeles Kings

Five-eight, thirty-nine years old, and still the best passer in most buildings he walks into.