There’s something that Alex Laferriere said a few games back that’s stuck with me. It came right after the Kings shuffled the deck up front, with Laferriere moving back to center, on a line with Artemi Panarin and Adrian Kempe.
The LA Kings lost their sixth consecutive game to begin the 2026-27 season, falling by a 4-1 final score against the Boston Bruins on Saturday evening at Crypto.com Arena.
Thursday’s practice at Toyota Sports Performance Center brought a slightly reshuffled Kings lineup. After five games and plenty of blunt self-assessment from inside the room, coach Peter Laviolette shifted the top-six a bit.
The LA Kings came up a goal short in their home opener, as they dropped a 2-1 decision against the Florida Panthers on Tuesday evening at Crypto.com Arena.
People love a good mid-round draft pick that pans out, and in the NHL you used to see those fairly often, but that’s obviously partially luck. If the Red Wings thought Nicklas Lidstrom was going to become a top-five defenseman in history, they wouldn’t have waited until the 53rd pick to take him.
Offensive struggles and inconsistencies on special teams on the power play largely defined this past regular season for the Los Angeles Kings. The Kings ranked in the bottom five in the NHL this past season in goals per game and power-play percentage.
Alex Laferriere has been among the most consistent players on the Kings over the last two seasons. He’s a great draft success story as a third-round pick and he’s improved his game each season, becoming a reliable player in the middle six for the Kings.
The LA Kings improved to 3-1-0 on their current roadtrip as they skated to a 3-2 overtime victory over the Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday afternoon at Xfinity Mobile Arena.
People will talk about the “Mount Rushmore” for a franchise, which is to say the four people, usually four players, that most define the franchise. Not always the four-best players, but the four that evoke the essence of the franchise.
Early in the first period of last night’s game against the Anaheim Ducks, Alex Laferriere worked his way into the low slot. Defenseman Drew Doughty moved the puck behind the net in the offensive zone to Anze Kopitar, who was stationed in Gretzky’s office behind the net, with some time to make a play.
Alex Laferriere notched his first career hat trick for the Los Angeles Kings in a 6-1 win against the visiting Anaheim Ducks on Saturday night. Quinton
The New Jersey Devils will have to wait a little while longer to see winger Stefan Noesen in action. Head coach Sheldon Keefe relayed that Noesen is continuing to progress in his return from a groin injury, but will need the entire preseason before he’s back to full health, to James Nichols of New Jersey Hockey Now.
For a fourth consecutive season, the Los Angeles Kings returned to the playoffs, but were eliminated by the Edmonton Oilers for a fourth straight time.
Welcome back to another summer edition of Around the NHL. The free-agent market has dried up considerably on the unrestricted side, however, there’s plenty of restricted free agents, who remain unsigned.
The Los Angeles Kings signed forward Alex Laferriere to a three-year, $12.3 million contract extension through the 2027-28 season, the team announced on Saturday.
The Los Angeles Kings are in an enviable spot this summer, with over $21 million in cap space and only a couple of significant pending free agents. The only restricted one on the roster is forward Alex Laferriere — and general manager Ken Holland provided a positive update on the former 42-point scorer on Wednesday.
The offseason has arrived for all but two teams now with the playoffs nearing an end. Accordingly, it’s time to examine what they will need to accomplish over the coming weeks with free agency fast approaching.
In the past, I’ve highlighted one player per offseason that the Detroit Red Wings should pursue in a trade. Matt Roy was the target in 2023 and Yegor Sharangovich was the focus last year.
Connor Brown scored once in a three-point game and the Edmonton Oilers advanced to the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs, again at the expense of the Los Angeles Kings, thanks to a 6-4 home-ice victory in Game 6 on Thursday.
The Los Angeles Kings will be without Alex Laferriere for the immediate future as the right winger is dealing with an upper-body ailment, per team reporter Zach Dooley.
In the eyes of most, if not all LA Kings fans, Alex Laferriere, has been the surprise of the 2024-25 season so far. Laferriere will be a Restricted Free Agent on July 1st, 2025, so let’s discuss what his next deal could look like.
If there is one thing that’s clear about the Los Angeles Kings, it’s that they love playing their in-state rival Anaheim Ducks. The Kings have dominated
With the NHL just about a month into the season, many players are well on their way to a career year. Let's take a look at which players are having the biggest breakout seasons so far.
Goaltending played a huge role in the Canucks’ series win over the Nashville Predators. But in true Canucks fashion, it didn’t go the way anybody expected.