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Top 50 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.

This list is up to the end of the 2022/23 season.

Note: Hockey lists are based on an amalgamation of tenure, traditional statistics, advanced statistics, playoff statistics, and post-season accolades.

41. Juha Widing

41. Juha Widing
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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…
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42. Jimmy Carson

42. Jimmy Carson
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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…
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43. Garry Galley

43. Garry Galley
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Garry Galley had two stints with the Los Angeles Kings, the first coming after he was the 100th 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…
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44. Sean O'Donnell

44. Sean O'Donnell
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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…
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45. Tom Williams

45. Tom Williams
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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…
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46. Mike Cammalleri

46. Mike Cammalleri
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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…
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47. Matt Greene

47. Matt Greene
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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…
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48. Neil Komadoski

48. Neil Komadoski
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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…
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49. Jarret Stoll

49. Jarret Stoll
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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…
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50. Matt Roy

50. Matt Roy
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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…
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