Anze Kopitar became the Los Angeles Kings' all-time leader in video games played when he skated 22:59 of a 4-2 loss to the Boston Bruins on Saturday. The 36-year-old center from Slovenia played his 1,297 th NHL video game, all for Los Angeles, to pass Dustin Brown as the most-tenured participant of the Kings and further cement himself amongst the greatest to tie up their skates for L. A. But is Kopitar the most effective to play for Los Angeles in its abundant history?We asked 8 NHL. com authors for their option as the biggest to bet the Kings. Right here, in alphabetical order, are their answers. Dustin BrownBrown was a heart-and-soul gamer for 18 NHL periods, all with the Kings. I valued his style of play because not just was he a respected point-producer, yet he was courageous in the edges and unrelenting on the puck. He became the 2nd United States-born gamer to captain a team to the Stanley Mug in 2012 and 2014 and joined Luc Robitaille and Wayne Gretzky as the only previous Kings to have statues outside Crypto. com Arena. Brown, linked with Anze Kopitar as the Los Angeles leader in games played, places seventh on the Kings' all-time scoring list 712 factors. He's also third in NHL history with 3,632 hits, the most by an U. S. gamer since the fact was added in 2005-06. He retired after the 2021-22 period and the Kings retired his No. 23 on Feb. 11. -- Mike G. Morreale, team writerMarcel DionneAs respected an objective marker as there ever before has remained in the NHL, Dionne was the face of the Kings for 12 seasons and one of their initial superstars. Dionne's Hall of Popularity career saw him total 1,771 factors in 1,348 games with the Detroit Red Wings, Kings and New York Rangers, placing him sixth on the League all-time racking up checklist Jean Ratelle Jersey. The citizen of Drummondville, Quebec, was a six-time 50-goal marker, all with Los Angeles, and got to the 100-point plateau 8 times, 7 with the Kings. He won the Art Ross Prize as the NHL's leading marker in 1979-80 with 137 points defeating a young Gretzky by racking up two even more objectives that season. A two-time Lester B. Pearson Honor Victor as many exceptional gamer voted by the NHL Players' Organization and two-time Girl Byng Prize victor for sportsmanship and gentlemanly play, Dionne holds the Kings' all-time scoring document with 1,307 factors in 921 video games. It's an overall not likely to ever be gone beyond. -- Derek Van Diest, Team writerDrew DoughtyNow in his 16th period with Los Angeles, having actually played 1,099 video games, I would certainly argue Doughty is the best defenseman in Kings background. And I assume you can take that argument up a notch and say for Doughty as Los Angeles' all-time ideal player. He has 621 points, 127 points greater than the next closest defenseman and 9th amongst all players in Kings history. He won the Norris Trophy, elected as the NHL's best defenseman, in 2015-16 and finished second two times. He helped lead the group to the Stanley Cup two times, nearly winning the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP in 2014 in the process, because he plays the greatest when the games are the most significant. Still simply 33 years old, Doughty has balanced even more than 26 mins per video game throughout a career that has lots of time to position him ever before greater amongst the NHL's greats. -- Amalie Benjamin, NHL. com staff writerWayne GretzkyNo one has been greater in L. A. than The Great One was from 1988-96, also though others put together greater overalls and won champions, although Gretzky had his ideal seasons and won many of his hardware with the Edmonton Oilers previously. Gretzky won the Hart Trophy, elected as NHL most useful player in 1988-89 and Art Ross Trophy as scoring champ in 1989-90, 1990-91 and 1993-94. Nobody else has won the Hart with the Kings. Another player has won the Art Ross-- Dionne in 1979-80 Kevin Shattenkirk Jersey. Gretzky is Los Angeles' all-time leader in factors per game in the normal season and Stanley Mug Championship amongst those with greater than three games played. He considers his greatest video game his hat trick in a 5-4 win versus the Toronto Maple Leafs in Video Game 7 of the 1993 Campbell Conference Finals, which lugged the Kings to the Stanley Mug Final for the very first time. -- Nicholas J. Cotsonika, columnistAnze KopitarGretzky is possibly one of the most essential gamer in Kings background as a result of his effect on the marketplace throughout his 8 seasons there, and Dionne and Robitaille were excellent markers for Los Angeles. However Kopitar has actually been the very best and most full gamer throughout his 18 seasons here. With 1,146 factors, he's surrounding Robitaille for second because classification, and with 751 aids, he's 7 from passing Dionne for most in Kings history. He's additionally trustworthy defensively, winning the Selke Trophy as the Organization's top defensive ahead two times, and he won the Girl Byng Trophy for "sportsmanship and gentlemanly conduct incorporated with a high standard of playing capacity" two times. On top of that, Kopitar was a clutch contributor to Los Angeles winning the Cup two times, tying Brown for the NHL lead with 20 points in 20 Stanley Cup Championship game in 2012 and leading all scorers with 26 factors in 26 playoff games in 2014. -- Tom Gulitti, staff writerLuc RobitailleThe ninth-round pick of the 1984 NHL Draft.. does not seem like an introduction for one of the 100 greatest players in League background. Yet that's where Robitaille was picked and he made a remarkable effect on the NHL and, obviously, the Kings. Robitaille had 3 playing jobs with Los Angeles, completed with 1,154 factors in 1,077 games there. He totaled 1,394 points in 1,431 career NHL games with the Kings, Pittsburgh Penguins, Rangers and Red Wings and is the 2nd highest-scoring left wing in Organization background behind Alex Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals. Though Robitaille won the Stanley Cup with Detroit in 2002, he's synonymous with Los Angeles and is still making an influence off the ice as Kings president. -- Tracey Myers, team writerDave TaylorGretzky, Dionne, Robitaille and Rogie Vachon may have been faces of the franchise, yet Taylor was its backbone. A 15th-round choice from Clarkson College in the 1975 NHL Draft, he took place to rack up 1,069 factors in 1,111 regular-season games, all with Los Angeles. A member of the Triple Crown Line with Dionne and Charlie Simmer, Taylor scored a minimum of 20 objectives 12 times, at least 30 6 times and at the very least 40 3 gimes, consisting of an NHL career-high 47 in 1980-81. He ranks third in Kings history in objectives, 4th in factors, 3rd in power-play goals and 4th in profession playoff points. In 1991, he won the Masterton Trophy for exhibiting "the top qualities of perseverance, sportsmanship and devotion to hockey" and the King Clancy Prize for leadership qualities on and off the ice and for making a "significant contribution in his neighborhood. " Taylor retired a King following the 1993-94 period and became a Kingmaker as general manager from 1997-2006. Kopitar, Brown and Jonathan Quick were amongst those composed during his tenure. -- William Douglas, staff writerRogie VachonThe goalie was the initial genuine super star with the Kings, showing up in a profession with the Montreal Canadiens on Nov. 4, 1971 in a profession that sent out four players to Montreal. In seven periods with the Kings, a huge fan fave who was the group's best advertising device, the 2016 Hockey Hall of Famer compiled a record of 171-148-66 with a 2. 86 goals-against averge,. 901 save portion and 32 nothings Tuukka Rask Jersey. He stays second to Quick on the group's all-time goalies list for games played, wins and nothings, and was called NHL Gamer of the Year by The Hockey Information in 1974-75, when he was 27-14-13 with a 2. 24 GAA, 6 nothings and a League-leading. 927 save portion. Vachon's influence on the team was identified on Feb. 14, 1985 when his No. 30 ended up being the very first number retired by the Kings. He would go back to Los Angeles after his playing job to serve in myriad abilities, most notoriously the team's basic supervisor from 1984-92; the Kings' famous acquisition of Gretzky from the Oilers occurred on his watch.