{"id":541141,"date":"2026-03-15T02:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T02:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/541141\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T02:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T02:46:09","slug":"kopitar-draws-praise-from-dionne-after-breaking-kings-points-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/541141\/","title":{"rendered":"Kopitar draws praise from Dionne after breaking Kings&#8217; points record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kopitar&#8217;s trophy case is swollen full, too, with the 2012 and 2014 Stanley Cup; Frank J. Selke Trophy as best defensive forward in 2015-16 and 2017-18; Lady Byng for gentlemanly play in 2015-16, 2022-23 and 2024-25; and the Mark Messier NHL Leadership Award in 2021-22. Only Gretzky, with seven, has earned more individual NHL awards with the Kings than the six of Kopitar.<\/p>\n<p>Now, as he&#8217;s joined by Kopitar atop the franchise list he&#8217;s led for 45 years, Dionne considers the Kings&#8217; new No. 1 with respect for a player whose career is nearing its end.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Anze is not a pure goal-scorer,&#8221; he said, &#8220;but he&#8217;s an excellent, solid two-way player. He&#8217;s been a credit to his team for many years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I listen to podcasts and hear guys talking all the time about statistics and it&#8217;s never crossed my mind until recently that I&#8217;ve been No. 1 on the Kings points list all these years. Now Anze will be on top for a long time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, no one is giving close chase. Doughty, in his 18th season with the Kings and a Kopitar teammate for the 2012 and 2014 Stanley Cup wins, has 703 points through his 1,263 games. Forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/adrian-kempe-8477960\" title=\"Adrian Kempe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adrian Kempe<\/a>, the nearest active player to Doughty, trails the veteran defenseman by more than 200 points (459).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kopitar&#8217;s trophy case is swollen full, too, with the 2012 and 2014 Stanley Cup; Frank J. Selke Trophy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-541141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}