billybudd
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Willie Mitchell, Rob Scuderi, Robyn Regehr, Matt Greene are just some of the defensive defensemen the Kings Cup winning teams have used. In fact Dean Lombardi is on record as saying he prefers pairings where astay-at-homer is paired up with a puck-mover. So the narrative that they're moving away from that is a bit wrong. Nor is speed and skill exactly the term I'd use to describe the Kings, especially not their 2012 team.
Yeah, that's what stood out to me. "4 lines of skill" doesn't apply to Los Angeles. It's revisionism to say that's how they won those cups.
It's also a bit rich that they name drop Scuderi as a relic, despite playing a pretty significant role in a championship for one of their "forward-thinking" teams. Not that Scuderi's effective at this point, but don't muddy your own narrative if you don't have to.