The 2026-27 NHL season is still in its early stages, but several established players have struggled to find their footing. While some teams have gotten off to impressive starts, others are already searching for answers.
The Los Angeles Kings lost one of their top forwards during Tuesday night’s win over the Washington Capitals. Center Quinton Byfield exited the contest after just four shifts and 2:44 in ice time. Head coach Peter Laviolette told Dooley that the team plans to evaluate Byfield’s injury more at Wednesday’s practice.
The NHL's sole winless team entering Tuesday's action, the Los Angeles Kings broke out offensively, authoring a 5-2 win over the Washington Capitals to improve to 1-6-2, though they lost center Quinton Byfield in the first period to an upper-body injury.
How many of the 22 players in NHL history with at least 600 career goals can you name in five minutes?
The Los Angeles Kings are in the midst of a nightmarish start to their 2026-27 season, and they got dealt another blue during their game on Tuesday night.
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.
Quinton Byfield understood the expectations this season. With Anze Kopitar retiring, whether Byfield was ready or not, the task was placed on him to ascend into the number-one center role with the Kings.
The LA Kings hit the ice today for practice at Toyota Sports Performance Center, in advance of an afternoon flight to Vegas. For starters, a few updates from what we saw yesterday, plus a couple of new ones.
Let’s quickly bring everybody up to speed for those not following along closely. Following an optional day of practice on Wednesday, where most skaters
On Saturday in San Jose, the Kings were led from the top. Let’s start with the stats. The line of Artemi Panairn, Quinton Byfield and Adrian Kempe led the way early and often, all the way through the end of the night.
Quinton Byfield is a chiselled 6-foot-5 and 230 pounds. He’s an imposing presence any time he walks into a room. Yet he blends in with the crowd just fine in Los Angeles.
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.
Often times, when you look at a franchise’s golden years, there’s a series of occurrences that result in its ending. Both the Edmonton Oilers, and General Manager Stan Bowman, have seen this happen to them.
With training camp just around the corner, we are previewing each player on the LA Kings roster. Up first: Quinton Byfield! Birthdate: August 19, 2022
Every young player reaches a point in their career when the pressure is on, and for the Los Angeles Kings entering the 2026–27 season, that player is Quinton Byfield.
The Los Angeles Kings are the first team in the Western Conference to be knocked out of the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs after a four-game sweep at the hands of the President’s Trophy-winning Colorado Avalanche.
As occurs each year, after teams are eliminated from the postseason, players start to disclose the injuries they were managing during the final stretch of the regular season and the playoffs.
Quinton Byfield tallied twice as the Los Angeles Kings clinched a Western Conference playoff berth with a 5-3 victory against the host Seattle Kraken on Monday night.
Quinton Byfield scored his second goal of the game at 2:33 of overtime Saturday night and the Los Angeles Kings defeated the visiting Toronto Maple Leafs 7-6.
The Los Angeles Kings were without yet another top forward in Monday night’s game against the Colorado Avalanche. Quinton Byfield sat out of the match with an upper-body injury per a team release.
The Stanley Cup playoffs field is set, and it's time to look at the next crop of potential playoff heroes. Seemingly no tournament in sports offers as much opportunity for an unlikely hero to shine as the NHL's postseason.
Nurse was issued a major penalty and a game misconduct for cross-checking Quinton Byfield in Monday’s game between the Oilers and Los Angeles Kings.
Los Angeles Kings forward Quinton Byfield turned heads on Monday night with an absolutely sensational goal, scoring what many are already calling a “Goal of the Year” candidate.
After a pleasant return home from a challenging pre-Christmas road trip, the Los Angeles Kings will search for consecutive victories for the first time in nearly three weeks when they host the Philadelphia Flyers on Sunday.
It’s understandable why there is frustration surrounding Quinton Byfield and his production levels throughout the first quarter of the season. He was a
Quinton Byfield stole the spotlight as the Los Angeles Kings secured a 4-1 preseason victory over the Boston Bruins on Thursday night at the Videotron Centre in Quebec City.
He had a breakout campaign this past season. The young forward scored 20 goals and 55 points in 80 games while primarily playing next to Anze Kopitar and Adrian Kempe.
The 2024 NHL offseason has slowed substantially in recent days, but that doesn’t mean the Philadelphia Flyers should relent in their endless pursuit of a long-term No.
Quinton Byfield’s breakout season couldn’t have come at a better time, not only for concerned LA Kings fans but for the player due for a pay raise this summer.
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