2006–07 Los Angeles Kings season
2006–07 Los Angeles Kings | |
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Division | 4th Pacific |
Conference | 14th Western |
2006–07 record | 27–41–14 |
Home record | 16–16–9 |
Road record | 11–25–5 |
Goals for | 227 |
Goals against | 283 |
Team information | |
General manager | Dean Lombardi |
Coach | Marc Crawford |
Captain | Mattias Norstrom (Oct-Feb) Vacant (Feb-Apr) |
Alternate captains | Rob Blake Craig Conroy (Oct-Jan) Aaron Miller Scott Thornton |
Arena | Staples Center |
Average attendance | 16,859 (91.1%) |
Team leaders | |
Goals | Alexander Frolov (35) |
Assists | Michael Cammalleri (46) |
Points | Michael Cammalleri (80) |
Penalty minutes | Raitis Ivanans (140) |
Plus/minus | Derek Armstrong (+13) |
Wins | Mathieu Garon (13) |
Goals against average | Mathieu Garon (2.66) |
The 2006–07 Los Angeles Kings season was the 40th season (39th season of play) for the National Hockey League franchise. This season marked the beginning of a rebuilding phase, as the team hired Marc Crawford as their new head coach, the former general manager of the San Jose Sharks, Dean Lombardi, as their new GM, former NHL goaltenders Ron Hextall as assistant GM (and GM of their AHL affiliate Manchester Monarchs), and Bill Ranford as goaltending coach. Their first big move came when they acquired rookie prospect Patrick O'Sullivan, along with a 2006 first-round draft pick (Trevor Lewis), from the Minnesota Wild for forward Pavol Demitra on June 24, 2006.[1]
But the biggest move of the off-season for the Kings was acquiring goaltender Dan Cloutier from the Vancouver Canucks in exchange for a 2007 second-round draft pick and a 2009 conditional draft pick on July 5, 2006.[2] He was then named the team's starting goaltender ahead of Mathieu Garon, whom many fans expected to be their number-one goaltender. Before the season got underway, he was signed to a two-year contract, expecting a great performance from the former Canuck. However, at the end of December, Dan Cloutier was last in save percentage and goals against average (GAA) amongst NHL goaltenders who have played at least 12 games.
Injuries to both Garon and Cloutier in January prompted the Kings to recall Yutaka Fukufuji as an emergency goaltender, who made his NHL debut on January 13 against the St. Louis Blues, becoming the first Japanese-born player in NHL history.[3] On January 18, prior to a home game against St. Louis, the Kings claimed goaltender Sean Burke off of waivers from the Tampa Bay Lightning. Burke would be the fifth goaltender to play for the Kings during the season (after Cloutier, Garon, Barry Brust and Fukufuji). This marked the first time the Kings have had at least five goaltenders appear during one season since the 2000–01 season (Jamie Storr, Felix Potvin, Steve Passmore, Stephane Fiset and Travis Scott).
On January 20, 2007, prior to a night-game against the Phoenix Coyotes, the Los Angeles Kings officially retired Luc Robitaille's number 20 sweater. This makes him the fifth player to have his number retired by the Los Angeles Kings, along with Rogie Vachon, Marcel Dionne, Dave Taylor and Wayne Gretzky.
The Kings missed the playoffs for the fourth consecutive season.[4]
Regular season
[edit]The Kings struggled on the penalty kill, finishing the regular season 30th overall in penalty-kill percentage, at 77.86%.[5]
Season standings
[edit]No. | CR | GP | W | L | OTL | GF | GA | Pts | |
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1 | 2 | Anaheim Ducks | 82 | 48 | 20 | 14 | 258 | 208 | 110 |
2 | 5 | San Jose Sharks | 82 | 51 | 26 | 5 | 258 | 199 | 107 |
3 | 6 | Dallas Stars | 82 | 50 | 25 | 7 | 226 | 197 | 107 |
4 | 14 | Los Angeles Kings | 82 | 27 | 41 | 14 | 227 | 283 | 68 |
5 | 15 | Phoenix Coyotes | 82 | 31 | 46 | 5 | 216 | 284 | 67 |
Note: CR = Conference rank; GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; OTL = Overtime/shootout loss; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; PIM = Penalties in minutes; Pts = Points
Bolded teams qualified for the playoffs.
R | Div | GP | W | L | OTL | GF | GA | Pts | |
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1 | z-Detroit Red Wings | CE | 82 | 50 | 19 | 13 | 254 | 199 | 113 |
2 | y-Anaheim Ducks | PA | 82 | 48 | 20 | 14 | 258 | 208 | 110 |
3 | y-Vancouver Canucks | NW | 82 | 49 | 26 | 7 | 222 | 201 | 105 |
4 | Nashville Predators | CE | 82 | 51 | 23 | 8 | 272 | 212 | 110 |
5 | San Jose Sharks | PA | 82 | 51 | 26 | 5 | 258 | 199 | 107 |
6 | Dallas Stars | PA | 82 | 50 | 25 | 7 | 226 | 197 | 107 |
7 | Minnesota Wild | NW | 82 | 48 | 26 | 8 | 235 | 191 | 104 |
8 | Calgary Flames | NW | 82 | 43 | 29 | 10 | 258 | 226 | 96 |
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9 | Colorado Avalanche | NW | 82 | 44 | 31 | 7 | 272 | 251 | 95 |
10 | St. Louis Blues | CE | 82 | 34 | 35 | 13 | 214 | 254 | 81 |
11 | Columbus Blue Jackets | CE | 82 | 33 | 42 | 7 | 201 | 249 | 73 |
12 | Edmonton Oilers | NW | 82 | 32 | 43 | 7 | 195 | 248 | 71 |
13 | Chicago Blackhawks | CE | 82 | 31 | 42 | 9 | 201 | 258 | 71 |
14 | Los Angeles Kings | PA | 82 | 27 | 41 | 14 | 227 | 283 | 68 |
15 | Phoenix Coyotes | PA | 82 | 31 | 46 | 5 | 216 | 284 | 67 |
bold - qualified for playoffs, y - division title, z - best conference record
CE - Central Division, NW - Northwest Division, PA - Pacific Division
Schedule and results
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October: 4–8–2 (home: 3–3–2; road: 1–5–0)
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November: 5–6–2 (home: 4–2–2; road: 1–4–0)
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December: 5–8–1 (home: 2–4–1; road: 3–4–0)
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January: 3–8–1 (home: 2–3–1; road: 1–5–0)
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February: 4–2–4 (home: 1–1–2; road: 3–1–2)
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March: 5–6–4 (home: 3–3–1; road: 2–3–3)
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April: 1–3–0 (home: 1–0–0; road: 0–3–0) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Legend:
Win (2 points) Loss (0 points) Overtime/shootout loss (1 point) |
Player statistics
[edit]Scoring
[edit]- Position abbreviations: C = Center; D = Defense; G = Goaltender; LW = Left wing; RW = Right wing
- † = Joined team via a transaction (e.g., trade, waivers, signing) during the season. Stats reflect time with the Kings only.
- ‡ = Left team via a transaction (e.g., trade, waivers, release) during the season. Stats reflect time with the Kings only.
No. | Player | Pos | Regular season | |||||
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GP | G | A | Pts | +/- | PIM | |||
13 | Michael Cammalleri | C | 81 | 34 | 46 | 80 | 5 | 48 |
24 | Alexander Frolov | LW | 82 | 35 | 36 | 71 | −8 | 34 |
11 | Anze Kopitar | C | 72 | 20 | 41 | 61 | −12 | 24 |
17 | Lubomir Visnovsky | D | 69 | 18 | 40 | 58 | 1 | 26 |
23 | Dustin Brown | LW | 81 | 17 | 29 | 46 | −21 | 54 |
7 | Derek Armstrong | C | 67 | 11 | 33 | 44 | 13 | 62 |
4 | Rob Blake | D | 72 | 14 | 20 | 34 | −26 | 82 |
19 | Sean Avery‡ | C | 55 | 10 | 18 | 28 | −10 | 116 |
5 | Brent Sopel‡ | D | 44 | 4 | 19 | 23 | 2 | 14 |
29 | Tom Kostopoulos | RW | 76 | 7 | 15 | 22 | −2 | 73 |
21 | Brian Willsie | RW | 81 | 11 | 10 | 21 | −20 | 49 |
12 | Patrick O'Sullivan | C | 44 | 5 | 14 | 19 | −6 | 14 |
22 | Craig Conroy‡ | C | 52 | 5 | 11 | 16 | −13 | 38 |
27 | Scott Thornton | LW | 58 | 7 | 6 | 13 | −15 | 85 |
38 | Kevin Dallman | D | 53 | 1 | 9 | 10 | −13 | 12 |
15 | Jamie Lundmark† | C | 29 | 7 | 2 | 9 | −8 | 25 |
8 | Mike Weaver | D | 39 | 3 | 6 | 9 | −4 | 16 |
14 | Mattias Norstrom‡ | D | 62 | 2 | 7 | 9 | −20 | 40 |
41 | Raitis Ivanans | LW | 66 | 4 | 4 | 8 | −12 | 140 |
6 | Jamie Heward† | D | 19 | 2 | 6 | 8 | −2 | 20 |
3 | Aaron Miller | D | 82 | 0 | 8 | 8 | −14 | 60 |
44 | Jaroslav Modry† | D | 19 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 22 |
9 | Konstantin Pushkarev‡ | RW | 16 | 2 | 2 | 4 | −2 | 8 |
28 | Oleg Tverdovsky | D | 26 | 0 | 4 | 4 | −10 | 10 |
73 | John Zeiler† | RW | 23 | 1 | 2 | 3 | −2 | 22 |
25 | Noah Clarke | LW | 13 | 2 | 0 | 2 | −6 | 4 |
15 | Jeff Cowan‡ | LW | 21 | 0 | 2 | 2 | −1 | 32 |
49 | Peter Harrold | D | 12 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
26 | Marty Murray† | C | 19 | 0 | 2 | 2 | −5 | 4 |
10 | Alyn McCauley | C | 10 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
1 | Sean Burke† | G | 23 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
39 | Dan Cloutier | G | 24 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 21 | |
31 | Mathieu Garon | G | 32 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |
22 | Jason Ward†‡ | RW | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 4 |
32 | Barry Brust | G | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
33 | Yutaka Fukufuji | G | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
37 | Gabe Gauthier | LW | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 |
43 | Tim Jackman | RW | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 10 |
33 | Jack Johnson | D | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −5 | 18 |
22 | Joe Piskula† | D | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 6 |
22 | Shay Stephenson | LW | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
34[a] | Lauri Tukonen | RW | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 |
Goaltending
[edit]- † = Joined team via a transaction (e.g., trade, waivers, signing) during the season. Stats reflect time with the Kings only.
No. | Player | Regular season | |||||||||
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GP | W | L | OT | SA | GA | GAA | SV% | SO | TOI | ||
31 | Mathieu Garon | 32 | 13 | 10 | 6 | 849 | 79 | 2.66 | .907 | 2 | 1779 |
1 | Sean Burke† | 23 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 687 | 68 | 3.12 | .901 | 1 | 1310 |
39 | Dan Cloutier | 24 | 6 | 14 | 2 | 608 | 85 | 3.98 | .860 | 0 | 1281 |
32 | Barry Brust | 11 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 245 | 30 | 3.70 | .878 | 0 | 486 |
33 | Yutaka Fukufuji | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 43 | 7 | 4.37 | .837 | 0 | 96 |
Awards and records
[edit]Awards
[edit]Type | Award/honor | Recipient | Ref |
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League (in-season) |
NHL All-Star Game selection | Lubomir Visnovsky | [8] |
NHL First Star of the Week | Alexander Frolov (November 19) | [9] | |
NHL Second Star of the Week | Alexander Frolov (December 31) | [9] | |
NHL YoungStars Game selection | Anze Kopitar | [10] | |
Team | Ace Bailey Memorial Award | Tom Kostopoulos | [11] |
Bill Libby Memorial Award | Michael Cammalleri | [11] | |
Defensive Player | Derek Armstrong | [11] | |
Jim Fox Community Service | Derek Armstrong | [11] | |
Leading Scorer | Michael Cammalleri | [11] | |
Mark Bavis Memorial Award | Anze Kopitar | [11] | |
Most Popular Player | Anze Kopitar | [11] | |
Outstanding Defenseman | Lubomir Visnovsky | [11] | |
Unsung Hero | Tom Kostopoulos | [11] |
Milestones
[edit]Milestone | Player | Date | Ref |
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1,000th game played | Rob Blake | November 4, 2006 | [12] |
Transactions
[edit]The Kings were involved in the following transactions during the 2006–07 season.[13]
Trades
[edit]Free agent signings
[edit]July 1, 2006 | From San Jose Sharks Scott Thornton (2 years, $3 million) |
July 1, 2006 | From Colorado Avalanche Rob Blake (2 years, $12 million) |
July 2, 2006 | From San Jose Sharks Alyn McCauley (3 years, $6 million) |
July 4, 2006 | From Washington Capitals Brian Willsie (2 years, $1.7 million) |
July 10, 2006 | From St. Louis Blues Brendan Buckley (2 years, terms undisclosed) |
July 10, 2006 | From St. Louis Blues Kevin Dallman (2 years, terms undisclosed) |
July 13, 2006 | From Montreal Canadiens Raitis Ivanāns (1 year, $450,000) |
September 1, 2006 | From Pittsburgh Penguins Matt Moulson (3 years, entry-level contract) |
February 17, 2007 | From Manchester Monarchs (AHL) John Zeiler (1 year, terms undisclosed) |
March 16, 2007 | From Princeton University (ECAC) Kevin Westgarth (3 years, entry-level contract) |
March 21, 2007 | From University of Wisconsin-Madison (WCHA) Joe Piskula (3 years, entry-level contract) |
April 27, 2007 | From University of Maine (HE) Teddy Purcell (3 years, entry-level contract) |
Free agents lost
[edit]July 1, 2006 | To Ottawa Senators Joe Corvo (4 years, $10.5 million) |
July 1, 2006 | To Minnesota Wild Mark Parrish (5 years, $13.25 million) |
July 4, 2006 | To Phoenix Coyotes Jeremy Roenick (1 year, $1.2 million) |
July 9, 2006 | To Kölner Haie (DEL) Adam Hauser (1 year, terms undisclosed) |
August 4, 2006 | To Boston Bruins Nathan Dempsey (1 year, $500,000) |
August 9, 2006 | To Pittsburgh Penguins Connor James (2 years, terms undisclosed) |
August 16, 2006 | To SCL Tigers (NLA) Brad Fast (1 year, terms undisclosed) |
August 21, 2006 | To San Antonio Rampage (AHL) Ryan Flinn (1 year, terms undisclosed) |
Waivers
[edit]October 3, 2006 | To Colorado Avalanche George Parros |
November 11, 2006 | From Philadelphia Flyers Marty Murray |
December 30, 2006 | To Vancouver Canucks Jeff Cowan |
January 18, 2007 | From Tampa Bay Lightning Sean Burke |
Draft picks
[edit]Los Angeles's picks at the 2006 NHL Entry Draft in Vancouver, British Columbia.[14] The Kings had the 11th overall draft pick by lottery for the third consecutive year.
Round | # | Player | Nationality | NHL team | College/junior/club team (league) |
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1 | 11 | Jonathan Bernier (G) | Canada | Los Angeles Kings | Lewiston Maineiacs (QMJHL) |
1 | 17 | Trevor Lewis (C) | United States | Los Angeles Kings (from Edmonton, via Minnesota) | Des Moines Buccaneers (USHL) |
2 | 48 | Joey Ryan (D) | United States | Los Angeles Kings | Quebec Remparts (QMJHL) |
3 | 74 | Jeff Zatkoff (G) | United States | Los Angeles Kings | Miami University |
3 | 86 | Bud Holloway (C/RW) | Canada | Los Angeles Kings (from Nashville) | Seattle Thunderbirds (WHL) |
4 | 114 | Niclas Andersen (D) | Sweden | Los Angeles Kings (from NY Rangers) | Leksands IF (Allsvenskan) |
5 | 134 | David Meckler (C) | United States | Los Angeles Kings | Yale University (ECAC) |
5 | 144 | Martin Nolet (D) | Canada | Los Angeles Kings (from NY Rangers) | Champlain (QAAAJHL) |
6 | 164 | Constantin Braun (LW) | Denmark | Los Angeles Kings | Eisbaren Berlin (Germany) |
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ Tukonen wore number 44 in his first game.
References
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- ^ Kings get Patrick O'Sullivan nhl.com [permanent dead link] - accessed December 3, 2006.
- ^ Kings get Dan Cloutier nhl.com [permanent dead link] - accessed December 23, 2006.
- ^ Blues edge Kings in offensive contest tsn.ca Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine - accessed January 13, 2007.
- ^ ESPN.com - accessed January 21, 2007.
- ^ "2006-07 NHL Summary". Hockey-Reference.com. Archived from the original on May 19, 2011.
- ^ "NHL Hockey Standings". NHL.com. Retrieved July 22, 2024.
- ^ "2006-07 Los Angeles Kings Schedule". Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved July 21, 2024.
- ^ "NHL All-Star Game Historical Summaries - 2007". NHL.com. Archived from the original on April 17, 2023. Retrieved August 5, 2024.
- ^ a b "NHL Three Stars of the Week". Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved August 5, 2024.
- ^ "2006-07 NHL Young Stars Rosters". TSN.ca. Archived from the original on February 2, 2007. Retrieved August 5, 2024.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Los Angeles Kings 2014–15 Media Guide, p. 201–03
- ^ Foster, Chris (November 4, 2006). "Crawford wants to keep the Coyotes guessing". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 5, 2024.
Rob Blake will play his 1,000th regular-season game tonight.
- ^ "Hockey Transactions Search Results". Archived from the original on August 13, 2021. Retrieved August 13, 2021.
- ^ "2006 NHL Entry Draft Picks at hockeydb.com". www.hockeydb.com. Retrieved July 22, 2024.