Los Angeles Kings 2024-25 Stanley Cup Betting
The Los Angeles Kings are coming off their third consecutive playoff season. In like manner, they are coming off their third consecutive first round playoff exit. Los Angeles is stuck between being good enough to make the postseason and incapable of making a serious run while in the playoffs. The Kings were reluctantly forced to fire head coach Todd McLellan after stalling with a 23-15-10 record. Assistant Jim Hiller was elevated to get the Kings into the playoffs, where they went out meekly against the eventual Western Conference champion Edmonton Oilers. There is not much future market optimism for the Kings.
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Los Angeles Kings Team Overview
In the 2023-24 season, the Los Angeles Kings were 44-27-11 straight up and 30-49-3 over/under the total. Also, Los Angeles was 7th in the Western Conference playoff standings. Los Angeles was 14 points behind the Dallas Stars in the Western Conference playoff race.
Los Angeles had NHL rankings of 16th for goals scored and 12th for power play efficiency. In comparison, on defense, the Kings had NHL rankings of 3rd for goals against and 2nd for penalty killing.
The Kings were eliminated by the Edmonton Oilers in the first round of the Western Conference playoffs 4-1.
Los Angeles Kings Key Players
C Anze Kopitar is a mainstay of the team. Kopitar is one of the best two-way forwards in NHL history. Kopitar is a five-time All-Star. He eclipsed the career 400-goal mark this season. Kopitar scored 28 goals with 47 assists last year.
Like Kopitar, D Drew Doughty was a key member of the Kings 2012 and 2014 Stanley Cup championships. Doughty is a five-time NHL All-Star and was the 2016 Norris Trophy winner as the NHL’s top defenseman. Doughty had 15 goals with 35 assists last year.
Los Angeles Kings Goaltenders
Number one goaltender Darcy Kuemper is best known as the goaltender for the 2021 Stanley Cup champion Colorado Avalanche. He arrives after two seasons with the Washington Capitals. His save perception was .890 last year.
Los Angeles Kings Coach
Jim Hiller took over the Kings midway through the 2023-24 season and led the team to a record of 21-12-1 to gain the playoffs. He was a Kings assistant coach before the promotion.
Season-by-Season Record (Last 6)
| SEASON |
GAMES |
WINS |
LOSSES |
FINISH |
PLAYOFFS |
| 2023–24 |
82 |
44 |
27 |
3rd, Pacific |
Lost in First Round, 1–4 (Oilers) |
| 2022–23 |
82 |
47 |
25 |
3rd, Pacific |
Lost in First Round, 2–4 (Oilers) |
| 2021–22 |
82 |
44 |
27 |
3rd, Pacific |
Lost in First Round, 3–4 (Oilers) |
| 2020–21 |
56 |
21 |
28 |
6th, West |
Did not qualify |
| 2019–20 |
70 |
29 |
35 |
7th, Pacific |
Did not qualify |
| 2018–19 |
82 |
31 |
42 |
8th, Pacific |
Did not qualify |
Los Angeles Kings History
Founded in the NHL “Great Expansion” of 1967 that doubled the league’s size from 6 to 12 teams, the Los Angeles Kings have had a rich history in both good times and bad. The early years were headlined by Real “Frenchy” Lemieux and Eddie “The Jet” Joyal. Original owner Jack Kent Cooke built the “Fabulous Forum” for his Kings. But mediocre hockey was the rule rather than the exception for most of the Kings' first 20 years of existence. Thus, the team was largely ignored. But everything changed with Wayne Gretzky’s arrival in 1988. The Great One made both the Kings and the NHL mainstream. The Kings went from being ignored to the most popular team in LA. A new generation of Kings won the Stanley Cup in 2012 and 2014.
Gretzky is the biggest name ever to play the sport, let alone for the Kings. But others such as Luc Robitaille, Marcel Dionne, and Rogie Vachon are revered hockey names in Southern California and Kings lore.
The dream of a Stanley Cup seemed impossible for many longtime Kings fans. But Los Angeles built up its roster with several good drafts. By the time the 2012 Stanley Cup Playoffs began, the Kings were perhaps the best 8-seed team in history. And that was proven by how Los Angeles steamrolled through the postseason to win their first Stanley Cup.
LA overcame an 0-3 deficit against the San Jose Sharks two years later to win the series 4-3. That was the springboard to a second Stanley Cup title run.
The Kings have always played second fiddle to the Lakers in Los Angeles. But the hockey club has always had die-hard, passionate loyalists who pack the arena for every game.
The end of the 2021-22 season marked the retirement of longtime King stalwart and former captain Dustin Brown. Brown was the captain of both of LA’s Stanley Cup championship teams. He goes down as one of the greatest Kings of all time.
NHL Teams
Eastern Conference - Atlantic
Eastern Conference - Metropolitan
Western Conference - Central
Western Conference - Pacific
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