Bob Murdoch first signed with the Montreal Canadiens in 1970, and though he was traded to Minnesota, he was reclaimed by the Habs in the 1971 Intra-League Draft, the deep defensive corps that Montreal had, prevented Murdoch from being a potential star for that team.  As Murdoch was expendable, Montreal traded him to Los Angeles, where he had his chance to shine.

Murdoch was a King for five-and-a-half years, where he grinded and playmaked better than any other Defenseman for Los Angeles in the 1970s.  He would have his best run in hockey with L.A., where as a King, he had three straight 30-plus Point years.  Murdoch’s best season was in 1974-75, where he was named an All-Star with a career-high 42 Points with a third-place finish in Defensive Point Shares.  Two years later, Murdoch was ninth in Defensive Point Shares.

Murdoch left Los Angeles in early 1979 when he was traded to the struggling Atlanta Flames.  He might not have been a star in the NHL or even in Los Angeles, but Murdoch was an underappreciated player in the Kings canon, who had 171 Points with Los Angeles.

“Mr. Game 7”.

If you are not going to be a Hall of Fame player, there is no better nickname to have than that.

The man with that moniker, Justin Williams, earned that reputation, participating in nine final playoff contests, winning eight, with 15 Points, an all-time record.  Williams, who won a Stanley Cup with Carolina in 2006, was traded to L.A. in 2009, and it was with the Kings where his playoff heroics continued.

Williams stayed with Los Angeles until 2015, scoring 266 Points in 427 Games.  Those are respectable numbers, but when the pressure was on the tightest, the Right Wing responded accordingly.  Williams played a large part in Los Angeles' first Stanley Cup win in 2012, scoring 15 Points in the playoffs.  Two years later, L.A. won it all again, with Williams scoring 25 Points with a post-season leading Plus/Minus of +13.  For his efforts, Williams won the Conn Smythe Trophy as the playoff MVP.

From Slovakia, Lubomir Visnovsky is one of the most successful players to come out of that country, and the Los Angeles Kings were the first North American beneficiary of his services.

Visnovsky, a Fourth Round Pick in 2000, made the Kings roster the following year, where the Defenseman was fourth in Calder voting on the strength of a 39-Point Season.  Visnovsky did not break 30 Points in the next three years, and his rookie year looked to be a bit of a fluke, but in 2005-06, Visnovsky scored 67 Points, with a career-high 50 Assists. Visnovsky was tenth for the Norris, and the Slovakian had truly arrived.

Visnovsky had two more years with the Kings, and both were good with 58 and 41 Points, respectively.  Los Angeles was a struggling squad, and they traded him to Edmonton after the 2007-08 campaign.  With the Kings, Visnovsky totaled 279 Points.

Ziggy Palffy played the first six years of his career with the New York Islanders, where he had a three-year run of at least 87 Points.  The Isles dealt Palffy to the Kings in a large transaction in the summer of 2000, and Palffy achieved approximately the same level of success in LaLa Land.

The Right Wing had three straight 30-plus Goal years for Los Angeles (2000-01 to 2002-03), his best year being 2000-01 with 89 Points and a fifth-place finish for the Lady Byng.  Twice an All-Star as a King, Palffy scored 340 Points in his five seasons in Los Angeles, nine more than he had with the Islanders.  He also had a Plus/Minus of +85 in L.A.