Starting off exit interviews this season with the captains – Anze Kopitar, Drew Doughty and Phillip Danault. Three players who remain critically important, three players in different stages of their career, but with the same mindset.
The Los Angeles Kings once again fell to the Edmonton Oilers in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. It’s the third year in a row that Los Angeles has seen this picture play out.
The Los Angeles Kings have lost to the Edmonton Oilers in the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs the last three years in a row, but their key players don’t sound interested in the team making significant changes.
“It’s always hard when you don’t meet the expectation, meet the goals, which certainly weren’t met this year.” Captain Anze Kopitar was the first of 14 players to speak on Exit Interview day in El Segundo, as the LA Kings players put public closure on their 2023-24 season.
The Edmonton Oilers are moving on in this season’s NHL playoffs and as is often the joke when a hockey team gets eliminated, the Los Angeles Kings will hit the golf course.
Fresh off a resilient victory that changed the course of their first-round Western Conference playoff series, the Los Angeles Kings return home for Game 3 on Friday against the Edmonton Oilers.
The Los Angeles Kings had their work cut out for them heading into the 2024 NHL Playoffs. They were the third team in the Pacific Division, meaning they avoided the Wild Card in the Western Conference.
The Los Angeles Kings needed a hero in Game 2 of their Western Conference first-round series against the Edmonton Oilers on Wednesday night — and it was the greatest Slovenian player of all time who came through.
The Kings' 36-year-old captain also had two assists.
Anze Kopitar scored in overtime to cap a three-point game and give the visiting Los Angeles Kings a 5-4 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Wednesday. Their best-of-seven Western Conference first-round playoff series is tied 1-1, with Game 3 set for Friday in Los Angeles.
On Wednesday night, the underdog Los Angeles Kings battled all night, allowing captain Anze Kopitar to net his third career overtime goal for a 5-4 victory over the heavily favored Edmonton Oilers at Rogers Place.
After a lot of home team success through the first bunch of games of the playoffs, the road teams had the last laugh for Wednesday’s action, including a couple of clutch performances from experienced captains.
Can the Los Angeles Kings finally figure out the Edmonton Oilers? Previewing their first-round series.
It’s Round 1, Part 3, between the Edmonton Oilers and the Los Angeles Kings. With the Vegas Golden Knights losing to the Anaheim Ducks on Thursday night
Anze Kopitar collected one goal and one assist to surpass 1,200 points in his career and goaltender David Rittich posted his career-high third shutout of the season as the host Los Angeles Kings claimed a 6-0 victory over the Minnesota Wild on Wednesday.
Anze Kopitar scored a pair of goals and added an assist, all in the second period, as the Los Angeles Kings cruised to a 6-2 victory over the visiting Chicago Blackhawks on Tuesday.
Anze Kopitar has provided stability and durability for the LA Kings for 17 seasons and doesn’t look to be slowing down. That quote in the tweet is summed up perfectly from Kings head coach Todd McLellan.
Los Angeles Kings forward Anze Kopitar scored his 400th career goal on an empty netter, sealing a 4-1 win over the Vegas Golden Knights on Wednesday night.
Ahead of the 2023-24 season, Kopitar is on the cusp of setting the Kings' franchise marks in several significant categories, some of which he'll likely reach before the end of the next campaign.
By spending $7M per year on two seasons of Kopitar in his late 30s, the Kings have placed a significant bet that one of their franchise’s greatest players will remain a great one even as he ages.
The Lady Byng Memorial Trophy goes to the player who best exemplifies attributes of sportsmanship and gentlemanly conduct on the ice. Kopitar first won the trophy in 2016.
Los Angeles Kings forward Anze Kopitar has been named the winner of the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy given to the player judged to have exhibited the best type of sportsmanship and gentlemanly conduct.
The Lady Byng Trophy is awarded annually to the “player adjudged to have exhibited the best type of sportsmanship and gentlemanly conduct combined with a high standard of playing ability.”
LA Kings Captain Anze Kopitar should be the front-runner for two NHL awards this summer. The Frank J Selke trophy is given to a forward who “best excels
Anze Kopitar became the second King to receive the award after Dustin Brown earned the honor in 2014.
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