Most intriguing addition<\/p>\n
Perry isn’t putting up the points he did early in his career, but remains a valuable commodity. There’s no quit in the 40-year-old, who remains driven to win the Stanley Cup again (he won with the Anaheim Ducks in 2007). That means good things for the Kings. Perry will add to their power play, which was 27th in the NHL last season (17.9 percent) and will provide a strong net-front presence, be it 5-on-5 or special teams. Perry has been to the Stanley Cup Final in five of the past six seasons. He knows what it takes to get there and once he gets back from injury, he should be an asset for the Kings, especially in the postseason.<\/p>\n
Biggest potential surprise<\/p>\n
Liam Greentree<\/a> is going to be pushing for a roster spot out of training camp. The No. 26 pick by Los Angeles in the 2024 NHL Draft, Greentree had 119 points (49 goals, 70 assists) in 64 games with Windsor of the Ontario Hockey League last season. The Kings said they’re not going to rush the 19-year-old, and it’s going to be tough for Greentree to break through, considering the team signed some veteran forwards this offseason. However, if Greentree excels in camp, he’s going to give the coaching staff something to ponder.<\/p>\n Ready to contribute<\/p>\n Jeff Malott<\/a> definitely qualifies as a late bloomer. The 29-year-old played in one game with the Winnipeg Jets in 2021-22, then didn’t get a sniff in the NHL again until last season, when he played in 12 regular-season and six playoff games with the Kings. This is looking like the season the forward gets a bigger opportunity, as part of the fourth line, where his size (6-foot-5, 208 pounds) and physical play should be an asset.<\/p>\n Fantasy sleeper with EDGE stats<\/p>\n Andrei Kuzmenko<\/a>, F: The forward had 17 points (five goals, 12 assists) in 22 games last season after he was acquired by the Kings in a trade on March 7; the only other player moved before the 2025 NHL Trade Deadline who had more points with his new team than Kuzmenko was Mikko Rantanen<\/a> of the Dallas Stars (18 in 20 games). Kuzmenko, who played mostly on the top line and first power play with Kopitar and wing Adrian Kempe<\/a>, has bounce-back potential considering he scored 39 goals in his first NHL season with the Vancouver Canucks in 2022-23. Per NHL EDGE stats, Kuzmenko ranked highly among forwards in top shot speed (92.47 mph; 90th percentile) and offensive zone time percentage (45.8; 92nd percentile). — Troy Perlowitz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Most intriguing addition Perry isn’t putting up the points he did early in his career, but remains a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-174502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}