Yes, we know that this is taking a while!

As many of you know, we at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the top 50 of each major North American sports team. That being said, we have existing Top 50 lists and consistently look to update them when necessary and based on necessity. As such, we are delighted to present our post-2023-24 revision of our top 50 Los Angeles Kings.

As for all of our top 50 players in hockey, we look at the following:

1.  Advanced Statistics.

2.  Traditional statistics and how they finished in the National Hockey League.

3.  Playoff accomplishments.

4.  Their overall impact on the team and other intangibles that are not reflected in a stat sheet.

Last year, the Kings made it to the playoffs but were dispatched early by the Edmonton Oilers.  There were no changes to the top five, though two of them are still active with the team.  There were no new entrants and two elevations.

As always, we present our top five, which saw no changes:

1. Marcel Dionne
2. Drew Doughty
3. Anze Kopitar
4. Luc Robitaille
5. Wayne Gretzky

You can find the entire list here.

Drew Doughty, a former Norris Trophy winner, remains at #2, though he was close to overtaking Dionne for the top spot.

Like Doughty, Anze Kopitar could not overtake Dionne nor Doughty, though he can eclipse them both when this is revised in twelve months.

Adrian Kempe advanced a dozen spots to #26.

Defenseman Matt Roy went from #50 to #46.

We thank you for your continued support of our lists on Notinhalloffame.com.

Yes, we know that this is taking a while!

As many of you know, we here at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the 50 of each major North American sports team.  That being said, we have existing Top 50 lists out and we always consistently look to update them when we can and based on necessity.  As such, we are very happy to present our post 2022/23 revision of our top 50 Los Angeles Kings.

As for all of our top 50 players in hockey we look at the following:

1.  Advanced Statistics.

2.  Traditional statistics and how they finished in the National Hockey League.

3.  Playoff accomplishments.

4.  Their overall impact on the team and other intangibles not reflected in a stat sheet.

Last year, the Kings made it into the playoffs, but were defeated in the first round by Edmonton.  Based on last season, there were changes into the top five, other elevations and one new entry.

As always, we present our top five:

1. Marcel Dionne

2. Drew Doughty

3. Anze Kopitar

4. Luc Robitaille

5. Wayne Gretzky

You can find the entire list here.

Doughty climbed to # 2 from $4 and Kopitar advances from #5 to #3, and he could become the franchise scoring leader in the future.  Both are primed to overtake Dionne in the next year or so.

Goalie, Jonathan Quick, who is now with the New York Rangers, went to #6 from #7.

Adrian Kempe shot to #38 from #48.

The lone new entry is Defenseman, Matt Roy, who debuts at #50.

We welcome your input and comments and as always, we thank you for your support.

A solid player at Michigan Tech, Matt Roy was drafted by the Los Angeles Kings in the Seventh Round in 2015, and would join the organization to years later.  After another two years, Roy was called up to the parent club and has provided solid defense ever since.

Roy is a traditional stay-at-home blueliner who rarely makes mistakes.  Offensively, he is able to contribute, and has produced at least 20 Points the last three years, but he is at his best when he stays in his own end.  Roy will never be a superstar, but every team needs a player like him.

Dustin Brown played his entire professional career with the Los Angeles Kings, debuting for the squad in 2003 and playing in SoCal until 2022.

A natural leader, the native of Ithaca, New York, was L.A.'s 12^th Overall Pick in 2003, making the team quickly and was consistently one of the team's leaders in Hits, though he was not a stalwart in the Penalty Box.  Brown led by example, selflessly acting in the best interest of his team, and though he was not the most gifted scorer, he tallied 712 Points over his career.

Ascending to the captaincy of Los Angles, Brown led his team to Stanley Cup Titles in 2012 and 2014 while individually winning the 2014 Mark Messier Leadership Award.

While representing the United States, Brown participated in two Olympics (2012 & 2014), capturing Silver in the former Olympiad.  

Yes, we know that this is taking a while!

As many of you know, we here at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the 50 of each major North American sports team.  That being said, we have existing Top 50 lists out and we always consistently look to update them when we can and based on necessity.  As such, we are very happy to present our post 2021/22 revision of our top Los Angeles Kings.

As for all of our top 50 players in hockey we look at the following: 

1.  Advanced Statistics.

2.  Traditional statistics and how they finished in the National Hockey League. 

3.  Playoff accomplishments.

4.  Their overall impact on the team and other intangibles not reflected in a stat sheet.

Last year, the Kings made the playoffs but were bounced in the first round.  There were multiple active Kings on the list, but there were minimal movement with them.  There was also one new entry.

As always, we present our top five:

1. Marcell Dionne

2. Luc Robitaille

3. Wayne Gretzky

4. Drew Doughty

5. Anze Kopitar

You can find the entire list here.

Doughty and Kopitar are still active but did not do enough last season to advance their ranks.  The same goes for Goalie, Jonathan Quick, who remains at #6.

The new addition to the list is Forward, Adrian Kempe, who debuts at #48.

We welcome your input and comments and as always, we thank you for your support.

As of this writing, Kempe is entering his ninth season in North American hockey, and the Swedish Wing is really coming into his own.

A late First Round Pick in 2014, Kempe debuted for the Kings during the 2016-17 Season and he found a place on a lower line.  In 2021-22, Kempe took his game to a higher level, bringing his Points to 54,  and it earned him a place as Los Angeles’s All-Star representative.  Kempe has continued to grow his point output with a 41 Goal-67 Assist year in 2022-23 and highs in Assists (47) and Points (75) last season.

Kempe could easily take another step, and has the potential for a three-digit point output..

Yes, we know that this is taking a while!

As many of you know, we here at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the 50 of each major North American sports team.  We have a new one to unveil today, that of the Los Angeles Kings. 

The Los Angeles Kings were part of the first wave of NHL expansion in 1967, but despite being in the second-largest market in the United States, Hockey took decades to gain traction in the area.

The Kings did have stars, such as Marcel Dionne, but the trade for Wayne Gretzky made the Kings the must-watch team of the late 80s and early 90s.  The Kings made the 1993 Stanley Cup Finals, losing to Montreal, but the sport was cemented in Southern California.

In the early 2010s, the Kings were a far more complete team, and they would win it all in 2012 and 2014, with squads full of future Hall of Famers and role players.

Our Top 50 lists in hockey look at the following:

1.  Advanced Statistics.

2.  Traditional statistics and how they finished in the National Hockey League.

3.  Playoff accomplishments.

4.  Their overall impact on the team and other intangibles not reflected in a stat sheet.

Remember, this is ONLY based on what a player does on that particular team and not what he accomplished elsewhere and also note that we have placed an increased importance on the first two categories.

This list is updated up until the end of the 2020/2021 Season.

The complete list can be found here, but as always, we announce our top five in this article.  They are:

1. Marcell Dionne

2. Luc Robitaille

3. Wayne Gretzky

4. Drew Doughty

5. Anze Kopitar

We will continue our adjustments on our existing lists and will continue developing our new lists.  

Look for our more material coming soon!

As always, we thank you for your support.

A Los Angeles King for the first five-and-a-half years of his NHL career, Neil Komadoski was a defensive stalwart for the team throughout the 1970s.

Komadoski was not an offensive star, only scoring 67 Points with Los Angeles, but he had a Plus/Minus of +18, a good number considering where the Kings were at the time.  He was traded to St. Louis midway through the 1977/78 campaign.

Matt Greene was a member of the Edmonton Oilers before being traded to the Los Angeles Kings in the 2008 off-season.  In L.A., he finished his career, but it wasn't brief, as he played there for nine seasons.

Greene was a traditional stay-at-home Defenseman who didn't score much, but didn't have to.  He only accumulated 67 Points in a Kings uniform but had a Plus/Minus of +21 and was a crucial part of their 2012 and 2014 Stanley Cup wins.

Matt Greene to Los Angeles in 2008, and the two of them would become significant components in the Kings' success of the first half of the 2010s.

Stoll showed his prowess as a two-way Center, earning Frank J. Selke votes (albeit not many) in three of his L.A. years.  Stoll had three straight 40-Point campaigns for the Kings (2008-09 to 2010-11 and was later a part of their Stanley Cup wins in 2012 and 2014.

Stoll joined the Rangers as a Free Agent in 2015, leaving behind 506 Games and 214 Points as a King.

Tom Williams played 25 Games with the New York Rangers before being traded to Los Angeles, where he had his greatest success in Hockey.

The Left Wing played with the Kings until 1979, doing well on tertiary lines, but having one very good year in 1976/77 where he lit the lamp 35 times with 74 overall Points.  He was traded to the Kings in the '79 offseason but never made their team and retired shortly after.

Williams scored 249 Points in 372 Games for Los Angeles.

Sean O’Donnell was traded to the Los Angeles Kings before he made it to the NHL with the team that drafted him, the Buffalo Sabres, and it was with the Kings where he first proved his merits.

O'Donnell played his first five NHL seasons with the Kings, using his grit and fists to protect his end and display traditional stay-at-home defensive acumen.  The blueliner had triple-digits in PIM in year two to year five of his run with L.A., and his toughness may not have yielded goals but did prevent them.

Left unprotected in the Expansion Draft, O'Donnell departed Los Angeles for Minnesota in 2000, but he returned as a Stanley Cup Champion in 2008 when the Anaheim Ducks sent him back to Los Angeles.  He served the Kings for two more years before leaving as a Free Agent to Philadelphia.

Overall, O'Donnell played 541 of his 1,224 Games with the Kings, with 98 Points and 940 Penalty Minutes. 

Garry Galley had two stints with the Los Angeles Kings, the first coming after he was the 100^th Overall Pick in the 1983 Draft, while he was playing collegiately at Bowling Green.  Galley turned pro the following year and made the Kings roster immediately, logging significant ice time on the Kings second pairing and scoring 38 Points as a rookie.

Galley was not as good as a sophomore, though he still had a respectable 22 Points in 49 Games.  Midway through the 1986-87 campaign, he was traded to Washington, but ten years later, the Kings signed him to be a veteran presence of their defensive corps.  In Galley's second run in Los Angeles, he played there three years, hitting the 30-Point mark in two of those years.  

Leaving for the Islanders in 2000, Galley amassed 159 Points in 361 Games as a King.

Born in Finland and raided in Sweden, Juha Widing moved to Canada as a teenager, playing in the WHL and working his way to the NHL, making the New York Rangers in 1970, and late in the year, he was traded to Los Angeles.  It was with the Kings where the Center would become a trailblazer for Scandinavian-born hockey players in North America.

Widing exploded in the 1970-71 Season with 65 Points, a then-record tally for a player who developed his skills in either Sweden or Finland.  Over the next four years, Widing never had less than 55 Points, producing solid stats in the first half of the 70s.

He was traded during the 1976-77 Season, and his pro hockey skills quickly declined around that time.  Wilding was out of North American hockey by 1978 but left the Kings with 342 Points, a solid amount for a player of his era.

As the 70s bled into the 80s, stay-at-home Defensemen were not in vogue but were (and are) a necessary part of Hockey.  This made Los Angeles' 1979 First Round selection of Jay Wells unsexy, but his toughness was required, and proved to be a large part of who the Kings were in the 1980s.

Wells did not have a single Point in his rookie season (43 Games), but he was a needed punisher who protects his side of the ice.  Wells would late generate offense, peaking with a 42-Point year in 1985-86, followed by a 35-Point year.  Wells ever had a year with Los Angeles where he had less than 100 Penalty Minutes, and he would sit in the box as a King for a total of 1,446 Minutes.

For a Defenseman who was not considered offensively capable in some circles, he did put forth 177 Points with Los Angeles, the team he would be traded from in the 1988 offseason.

Wells would later win a Stanley Cup with the Rangers in 1994.

Showing off solid offensive versatility in his career, Mike Cammalleri’s long career began in Los Angeles, debuting in 2002, but cementing himself as a starting NHL forward in 2005, where he had 55 Points in his first full season in hockey’s premier league.

Cammalleri followed this with one of his best seasons, netting 80 Points with a career-best 46 Assists.  He earned plenty of power play time over this era, and though Los Angeles was not a competitive team, Cammalleri was a significant component of the success that they did have.  

He was traded to Calgary in 2008 and returned as a Free Agent nine years later, albeit for a brief time before he was traded to Edmonton.  Cammalleri would tabulate 212 Points in 298 Games as a King.

Jimmy Carson was the Second Overall Pick in the 1986 Draft, and he would be an All-Rookie, scoring 79 Points and finishing third in Calder voting, an impressive output for an 18-year-old.

Carson was even better at 19, finishing third in Goals with 55 and scoring 107 overall.  This was one of the best years ever by a teenager in pro hockey and one of the best in Kings history, but as good as it was, it became of the most forgotten great seasons in Los Angeles.  Carson was traded to Edmonton as part of the deal that sent Wayne Gretzky in return, and Kings fans forgot all about Carson.

Carson could never do what he did at 19, and he slowly regressed over the following years.  He returned briefly to L.A. when he was traded back for their 1993 run to the Stanley Cup Finals, but he was not the same player he once was.  Los Angeles dealt him to Vancouver in January of 1994, and he would leave the Kings for good with 219 Points in 219 Games.

Glen Murray began and ended his career with the Boston Bruins, but in between that was a stint with Pittsburgh, and a six-year run with Los Angeles, that started late in the 1996-97 Season.

Murray received more ice time in L.A., and he was also beginning the prime of his hockey career.  The Right Wing put up 60 Points in his first full year in Los Angeles, and while he dropped to 31 in his second, he rebounded with 62 in his third (1999-00).  Murray continued his trend of bouncing up and down in his Kings stint, dropping back to 39 Points in year four, and at this point, the Kings might have thought they knew what they had with him.

Murray was traded to his original team, Boston, very early in the 2001/02 Season, and he was even better, going to two All-Star Games in the last half of his career.  With the Kings, Murray tabulated 211 Points in 304 Games.

Jozef Stumpel was coming into his own as a playmaker with the Boston Bruins, and after a 76-Point year, he was traded to Los Angeles, who needed his abilities.

In Stumpel’s first season as a King, he had a career-high 58 Assists, a number that was good enough to land him fifth in the league.  Injuries compiled on Stumpel over the next two years, as he was missing a handful of games in both years, but when he was healthy, he was playmaking as well as anyone in the NHL.

Early in the 2001/02 Season, Stumpel was traded back to Boston, but two years later, he was dealt back to L.A., playing one more year before signing with the Florida Panthers as a Free Agent.  As a King, Stumpel scored 267 Points in 334 Games.

Los Angeles Kings owner, Bruce McNall, felt that Bernie Nicholls could score, but they already had players who could put the puck in the net.  McNall wanted grit, and he got that when he engineered a trade with the New York Rangers that sent Tony Granato to the Kings.

Granato did not put up the same Points totals that Nicholls did, but he was a completely different player.  The Right Wing still had his best years in Los Angeles, posting three consecutive 60-plus years, peaking with a career-high 82 Points in 1992-93.  That year, Granato helped the Kings make the Stanley Cup Finals, and he led all skaters in Shots (77).

After the Finals, Granato’s hard-hitting style caught up to him, and he was frequently out of the lineup due to injury.  When his contract expired, he signed with the San Jose Sharks and would go to his first All-Star Game.  

With the Kings, Granato scored 305 Points in 380 Games.