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3 weeks ago | 
lakingsinsider.com | Zach Dooley
Diving now into the season that was for defenseman Mikey Anderson, who many felt took a step forward, especially during the regular season. Anderson was tasked with more, with Drew Doughty out of the lineup, and was a rock for the Kings as they navigated obstacles early in the season.
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3 weeks ago | 
lakingsinsider.com | Zach Dooley
Moving back to the right side, we take a look here at Jordan Spence’s second full season in the NHL.
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3 weeks ago | 
lakingsinsider.com | Zach Dooley
The Boston Bruins announced this morning that Marco Sturm has been named as the team’s newest Head Coach, concluding his time with the Kings organization. Sturm has been the Head Coach of the Ontario Reign since 2022 and was with the Kings as an assistant coach from 2018-22. As the leader of the Reign, the team posted a 119-80-11-6 record, including a trip to the third round of the Calder Cup Playoffs in 2024.
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3 weeks ago | 
lakingsinsider.com | Zach Dooley
Rolling on with the seasons in review series, as we shift the focus from the right side of the team’s most consistent defensive pairing to the left, with a look at Joel Edmundson’s 2024-25 season, his first with the Kings organization.
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3 weeks ago | 
lakingsinsider.com | Zach Dooley
The LA Kings have signed forward Martin Chromiak to a contract extension. The deal for Chromiak is a one-year contract, carrying an AAV of $775,000. Chromiak was set to become a restricted free agent this summer and now extends his deal with the organization for another season. Last month, when taking an overall assessment of the team’s free agents, both restricted and unrestricted, I wrote that Chromiak felt like one of two players I could confidently say would re-sign with the organization.
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3 weeks ago | 
lakingsinsider.com | Zach Dooley
The LA Kings have signed defenseman Kirill Kirsanov to a two-year, entry-level contract, running through the 2026-27 season. Instant AnalysisKirsanov has always been an interesting prospect to me. For two reasons, I’ve kept him on my radar, despite not playing within the Kings system until, presumably, the 2025-26 season. First, when the Kings selected Kirsanov in the 2021 NHL Draft, The Athletic’s Corey Pronman had him as his 16th ranked prospect in the entire draft class.
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3 weeks ago | 
lakingsinsider.com | Zach Dooley
Continuing through the defensemen with a look at Brandt Clarke’s first NHL season. More ups than downs, certainly, for a player who brings a skillset no one else within the Kings organization possesses. More on the young blueliner below.
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4 weeks ago | 
lakingsinsider.com | Zach Dooley
Working into the defensemen, we’ll start the seasons in review series with a look at defenseman Vladislav Gavrikov, who is coming off the first 82-game season of his NHL career.
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1 month ago | 
lakingsinsider.com | Zach Dooley
Starting individual season evaluations in net with goaltender Darcy Kuemper. Off all the potential question marks entering the season, Kuemper was perhaps the biggest answer given. Kuemper had a huge rebound season in goal, posting one of the finest seasons of his NHL career after he returned to the Kings organization over the summer via trade from Washington. A terrific season, start to finish, for number 35.
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1 month ago | 
lakingsinsider.com | Zach Dooley
Continuing the seasons in review series with a look at seven players who each spent the entire season with the NHL club but did not play on an everyday basis. Lots of different reasons behind it, player-to-player. Some were in and out of the lineup as depth players, others played a smaller role by nature and there were also injuries that impacted multiple Kings players on this list.
