Kings Three Stars for Games 41-50

Here is my next selection of Kings Three Stars for the period covering Games 41 through 50. It's noticeable it was one of the worse runs by the team, as LA went 2-7-1 in these ten games.

*** Michael Cammalleri - Five goals and seven assists [though usually in losing causes] brings Cammy a No1 star honours. What is even more important, he has not been a minus point player in a single game in the entire period in question, regardless of the Kings slide. According to the TSN player page, if he continues scoring at this pace, he will end up at 30 goals and 41 assists for the season [would have been his first scoring 30]. There is talk among Kings faithful that Cammalleri's agent will ask for a considerably higher salary at the end of the year than the team is willing to pay. Will he get traded before the deadline?

** Anze Kopitar - even if he does not produce at his amazing pace [over 0.8 point per game], he continues to dazzle. The thing is - produce he did: 2 goals and 5 assists is nothing to be ashamed of. In periods like these, when he can't shoulder the offence on his own, you almost tend to forget that he's only 19...

* Tom Kostopoulos - two goals [against St. Louis and Atlanta, both on the road] and overall solid physical presence in time Dustin Brown did not seem to bring it to the rink every night, get Kosto the No3 star recognition. He's a paragon of a team player, leaving everything out on the ice and part of the energy/fourth line [with Ivanans and Conroy] that held the opponents honest.

Honorable mentions: Lubo Visnovsky (2g, 4a and the only All-Star on the Kings), Yutaka Fukufuji (for his debut in the NHL, even if he never starts another game in his life).