October 11 - Lineup notes - Fiala, Kopitar, Kempe buddies - Clarke debut to wait
# October 11 - Lineup notes - Fiala, Kopitar, Kempe buddies - Clarke debut to wait
# Contributors
# Players
# Staff
# Summary
The Kings are 22-21-2 in their 54 season openers with nine ties, defeating Vegas 6-2 at home last year behind a hat trick and five points from Anze Kopitar, and a goal and three assists from Drew Doughty.
# Notes and Quotes
What’s happened this year is opening night’s come pretty quickly for us There are teams that don’t play ‘til Friday, or they have a whole week of practice ahead of them. Ours came right away – but that’s okay, we should be ready to play. – Todd McLellan
It’s obviously very exciting. He was a big acquisition for us this summer, and he’s had great numbers, especially last year, so we’re going to try to complement each other with Juice as much as we can and score as many goals [as we can]. – Anze Kopitar