Hollywood Blvd. News – Los Angeles Kings Edition
- Updated: September 23, 2015
A lot has happened to the Los Angeles Kings this offseason and one of the biggest things was the eventual deportation of Slava Voynov to Russia.
Even if he were to come back to the US, there’s no guarantee that his Kings’ teammates would take him back. They won’t be taking a stand on this publicly though. Yahoo Sports reports the following:
“I don’t think so. I think most of the players want to stay away from that kind of stuff,” said Doughty. “The players don’t want to say the wrong thing to the media, or say the wrong thing any time. We’ll just let management deal with it.
The players have enough trust and faith in the team that they’ll do the right thing, what’s best for us,” said Anze Kopitar.
When asked if the team missed him Drew Doughty responded:
“Obviously, Slava was the one that was missing in the lineup that whole time, and missing him was huge because he’s such a good player, but a lot of guys stepped up to fill his role.”
In regards to the effect it had on the team’s chemistry he also said:
With all the off-ice things going on, we were still a tightknit group. If anything, it kind of made us closer, because inside [the room] there were a couple of things going on that we had to deal with. We weren’t going to go around talking about them to anyone else except to each other. But that’s not the reason why any of that happened.”
Kopitar also concurred on that notion.
“Honestly, I don’t think it did. It’s unfortunately was happened, obviously. It’s not good. But at the same time, when you come to the locker room, you work with what you got,” Kopitar said.
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