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Dima Khristich is widely considered by those who played with him to be a prick. It's not often your leading scorer gets jumped and the rest of the team declines to come to his aid. With Khristich it happened when he was attacked by a teammate in practice. Let's rule him out...

I have to strongly promote Dan Bylsma. No other player in my active memory of the game has done so much with so little. Desire, determination, committment to hard work, these were the only things that kept Dan from falling out of the NHL.

He's also a great guy community wise, and if you've never seen the books he and his dad wrote, you should check them out. They are about what it takes to get to the NHL from a players POV and from the POV of a parent of a player.

I suppose if the blog wants to run with a joke, there are better choices, but if we want to go with a true underdog, Dan is the man.

Nice idea Rich. I voted for Krusher, but why the Khristich add? Wasn't he somewhat reviled by his teammates for being an arrogant poo-poo head?

Deadmarsh a #15 seed - wtf?

I like Gilles Marotte as a dark horse...

I wonder how Blake will feel when he gets ousted by Daryl Evans in the first round. That will teach him to not waive his no trade clause and to go up against the guy who scroed the most memorable goal in KIngs' history.

I wonder how Blake will feel when he gets ousted by Daryl Evans in the first round. That will teach him to not waive his no trade clause and to go up against the guy who scored the most memorable goal in KIngs' history.

Who can ever forget (if they saw it), Krush's lying flat on the ice, rainbow shot just over Vernon's outstretched glove as he was lying on his back...What a goal to defeat the Flames in the playoffs!

No Peter Ahola?

good old warren rychel, the poor bastard never could win a fight.

Pat Conacher!!!

Kristich supposedly made Avery look like a saint in the locker room and at practice so I doubt you will be seeing to many votes for him.

Pat Conacher +1! Loved watching Pat when he was here. Always appreciated what he did on the ice.

I'm partial to Glenn Goldup myself. If I'm not mistaken we traded at least a first round pick for him back in the Bad Old -- sorry, Worse Old Days of George Maguire.

What... no Doug Zmolek?

No Avery or Fukafuji or Clouts? Doesn't seem very fair to me :(
If anyone thinks I'm not joking, you need to laugh more!

Dan Bonar.

Sorry couldn't resist.

Where is John Druce?

Loved Tomas Sandstrom. He kind of looked like Lurch from the Adams Family.... He had a nice shot as well.

The BIG question is will anyone vote for Marty "Illegal stick that cost us the cup" McSorley??

And what about Gary Shuchuk and his GWG against Vancouver in '93??

Wow.. lots of memories here...

I remember when Zmolek first joined the Kings, he went down butterfly goalie style and took a slapper off the chest. Kudos for that.

And wasn't it ex Anaheim Bullfrog Barry Potomski who beat the crap outta Kristich in practice?

We can't forget Shuchuk!

And Patty C, is one of my all time favorites!

The seedings are all wrong. They force too many early-round decisions between the most popular Kings, which will give the impression that some lesser-popular players making it to later rounds (by beating other lesser-popular players) are more popular with fans than other more popular players. (I sound like that confused coach on the NHL Network commercials, don't I?) They should re-seed; Matty v. Deader, Gretz v. Tiger and Blakey v. Darryl Evans shouldn't be round 1. And how did Duchesne get a 5 seed? He didn't exactly leave on good terms...

Wheres my man Jere Karalhati...

or that beast Miko Eloranta

Jaroslav Bednar

or how about Radek Bonk's long and meaningful tenure as a king!

My favorite is Pat Conacher. But, if he was on the list, I would vote for Mikko Eloranta!

How about Jim Fox's linemate, J.P. Kelly #17?

I couldn't help myself, I had to fill in all the brackets with my picks! If you don't wanna read them just move to the next comment.

Purple Division
Taylor over Sawchuk
Murphy over Flett (sorry, I'm not that old)
Lubo over Lonnsberry
Gretzky over Tiger
Bylsma over Kozak (again, I don't know who Kozak is)
Simmer over Harper
Matty over Deadmarsh (this isn't a fair one because Deadmarsh would have gone farther if he had gotten to play more games with the Kings. The seedings are based on ho many games they played in LA, by the way)

Gold Division
Dionne over Allison
Ziggy over Cammy
Schneider over Modry (us Jews gotta stick together!)
Marty over Krush
Kelly over Ruskowski
Lappy over The Cat
Fro over Nevin
Anze over Murphy

Black Division
Blake over Evans
Sanstrom over Marotte
Murdoch over Cohan (I honestly don't know who either of those people are, I based that decision on the website's descriptions. I have "only" been a fan since 1990)
Rychel over Widing
Rogie over Lewis
Foxy over Maloney
Brownie over Stumpy (sorry, Stumpy, I still ove you, man!)
Hardy over Lacroix (how exactly did Eric Lacroix make this list? Where's Mike Donnelly??)

Silver Division
Lucky over Coffey
Lessard over Joval
Duchesne over White
Berry over Backstrom
Granato over Wall
Wells over Khristich
Kurri over Carson
Goring over Pulford

Round 2
Taylor over Murphy
Gretzky over Lubo
Nichols over Bylsma (the only 70-goal season in Kings history has to count for something)
Matty over Simmer

Ziggy over Dione (I love Ziggy, what can I say?)
Marty over Schneider
Hrudey over Lappy (the man led the team to the Finals after all!)
the single hardest choice out of all of them: Kopi over Fro

Sandstrom over Blake
Rychel over Murdoch
Jim Fox over Rogie
Brownie over Hardy

Lucky over Lessard
Duchesne over Berry
Granato over Wells
Kurri over Goring

3rd round
Gretzky over Taylor
Nicholls over Matty

Ziggy over Marty
Anze over Hrudey (I think Anze's leading us to many more future cups than Kelly did in the past!)

Sandstrom over Rychel
Jim Fox over Dustin Brown (I love them both but Dustin has to keep it up a few more years)

Granato over Kurri (another tough choice, but while the team may have sent Tony G packing when he had his brain injury I'm giving him props!)
Lucky over Duchesne

Choosing the Final 4
Wayne Gretzky defeats Bernie Nicholls
Anze Kopitar topples Zigmund Palffy
Tomas Sandstrom upends Jim Fox
Luc Robitaille beats Tony Granato

The Semis
Anze Kopitar bumps off Tomas Sandstrom
and Luc Robitaille prevails over the Great One

And in the end, I choose Lucky Luc Robitaille as my all-time favorite King in a resounding victory over Anze Kopitar!!

Oh yeah, Jeep was a great one. He checked Gordie Howe into the penalty box one night.

I remember listening to the games on the radio, and whenever there was a big crash the next words out of Bob's mouth would be "another hard hit by JP Kelly".

Dustin Brown may be the only King who has ever hit guys as hard as Kelly did.

Garrett is right, how can they leave off Mike Donnelly??

And what about Rob "Blueline" Stauber??

Had to do it...Glen Goldup

I'm a little disappointed to see that Chris Kontos, Kyosti Karjalainen and Petr Prajsler were omitted.

Eric Lacroix FTW!!!

P.S. - How in the hell did Slava Modry get seeded above the likes of Kelly Hrudey and Alex Frolov???

Madness, indeed.

If you please to include:

Sheldon Kannegiesser

Don Kozak

Whitey Whiting

Frenchy Lemieux

How about an honorary mention for Warren Wiebe?

Hey how about our Stanley Cup Final Goaltender, Kelly Hrudey, he worked his a$$ off for the Kings.