Kopitar and Los Angeles begin their last postseason march together in Game 1 against the Avalanche at Ball Arena in Denver on Sunday (3 p.m. ET; HBO MAX, FDSNSC, truTV, TNT, ALT, SNP, SNW, SNO, TVAS).<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to send \u2018Kopi\u2019 off with a playoff run, and we owe him that much, the organization owes him that much, so we\u2019re happy we could do it,\u201d forward Trevor Moore<\/a> said after a 5-3 win at the Seattle\u00a0Kraken on Monday clinched a postseason berth.<\/p>\n Kopitar has done it all in 20 seasons with the Kings. He has 1,316 points (452 goals, 864 points) in 1,521 games and became Los Angeles’ all-time scoring leader on March 14, when he passed Marcel Dionne (1,307 points; 550 goals, 757 assists in 921 games).\u00a0<\/p>\n Kopitar is a two-time winner of the Selke Trophy<\/a> (2017, 2018), voted as the NHL’s top defensive forward, a three-time winner of the Lady Byng Trophy<\/a> (2016, 2023, 2025), voted for sportsmanship and gentlemanly conduct.<\/p>\n He’s also a two-time Stanley Cup champion with the Kings in 2012 and 2014; Kopitar tied for the postseason scoring lead in 2012 (20 points; eight goals, 12 assists) and led all playoff scorers in 2014 (26 points; five goals, 21 assists).<\/p>\n Those accolades, fueled by the quality and commitment of his game at both ends of the ice, have earned Kopitar immense respect around the sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kopitar and Los Angeles begin their last postseason march together in Game 1 against the Avalanche at Ball…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-610311","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610311","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=610311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}