Charlie Simmer began his career with the California Seals, and after a brief period with the Cleveland Barons, he found himself with Los Angeles.  After playing most of the 1977-78 Season in the Minors, Simmer split the following year with Springfield (AHL) and L.A., but the Left Wing established himself with 48 Points in 37 Games, and he was never demoted again.

Simmer was now on a line with Marcel Dionne and Dave Taylor, the famed "Triple Crown Line."  In 1979-80, Simmer led the NHL in Goals with 56 and Power Play Goals (21).  He was named a First Team All-Star and was so again in the year after when he repeated his light-lamping output with 56.  

Simmer could not reproduce the magic of those two years, though he did have an 80 Point campaign in 1982-83 with a 92 Point follow-up in 1983-84.  The Kings traded Simmer to the Bruins very early in the 1984-85 Season, and Simmer left the L.A. with 466 Points in 384 Games.

Kelly Hrudey already had his share of playoff heroics before he became a Los Angeles King.  He recorded 73 Saves in the quadruple overtime win over Washington in Game 7 of the 1987 Patrick Division Semi-Finals.  He earned a chance to go deeper into the post-season when he was traded to L.A. in 1989.

Hrudey was a King for eight years, and for a few of them, he could be classified as one of the better Goalies in the NHL.  In 1990-91, he had a sub-three GAA and was fourth in Vezina voting.  Hrudey followed that with another top-ten finish in Vezina voting, but the year after, he backstopped L.A. to the Cup Finals.  The Kings did not win, but Hrudey had an excellent post-season, but not good enough to defeat Patrick Roy of the Montreal Canadiens.

Hrudey remained with the Kings until he joined San Jose as a Free Agent and would have a record of 145-135-55 with a 3.47 GAA.

The Los Angeles Kings was the third team of Jeff Carter’s career, the first being Philadelphia where he was an All-Star in 2009.  The second was Columbus, a team he didn’t play for long, as they traded him at the 2012 deadline to Los Angeles.  Arguably, it was the trade that took the Kings to their first Stanley Cup.

While it can be stated that Carter's best individual seasons were as a Flyer, it was as a King where he had his greatest success.  A natural leader, Carter gave Los Angeles scoring depth and was the leading goal-scorer (8) in the 2012 playoffs.  Carter led the NHL in Game-Winning Goals the following year (8), and again he was a potent force in Los Angeles' 2014 Stanley Cup win.

Following that title, Carter put forth three consecutive 60-Point campaigns, culminating with an All-Star appearance in 2017.  Carter slowed down after that and was dealt to Pittsburgh late in the 2020-21 season.

As a King, Carter scored 383 Points.

Bernie Nicholls might be one of the most potent scorers you forgot entirely about.

There is ample reason for it.  First off, Nicholls was overshadowed by Marcel Dionne and later Wayne Gretzky.  As many Points as the Center scored for L.A. (758), he did most of this on the second line, an impressive feat.  Nicholls was with the Kings throughout the 1990s, scoring over 75 Points seven years in a row (1983-84 to 1989-90), with three of those years seeing Nicholls exceed 100 Points.  

Nicholls had a special year for Los Angeles in 1988/89, where he joined the rare 70 Goal, 150 Point club, which again was incredible for a second line player.  He was fifth in Assists and fourth in Points this year, and his 70 Goals remain the highest amount ever by a King in a season.

Nicholls, who was named to his third All-Star Game appearance in 1990, was traded the day before the contest to the New York Rangers, as Kings ownership felt Nicholls might have been a little soft, and they thought it best to change the makeup of the team.  Nicholls scored 658 Points for Los Angeles with a 1.25 PPG.