All We Want For Christmas For The LA Kings/Ducks
- Updated: December 24, 2015
Emily Redenbach
All I want for Christmas … is for Jeff Carter and Drew Doughty to get their two front teeth back! A simple before and after shot will demonstrate why quite simply.
Drew Doughty Before:
Drew Doughty After: (without teeth)
Jeff Carter Before :
Jeff Carter After : (without teeth)
With teeth they’re hot. Arguably two of the hottest players on the team. (I’m happy to debate that with anyone. At length. With lots of photos as evidence. For any player really. I’m getting off topic…) But without their teeth they’re just two really good players. Which is awesome, and I hope they both stay Kings forever. But for Christmas, I gift them a tooth fairy to bring back the pretty. Should hockey players be pretty, you ask? It’s not necessary. But it doesn’t hurt. It doesn’t hurt at all.
What I also want for Christmas is for Drew Doughty to finally win the Norris Trophy!
Does anyone else remember in 2002 when Denzel Washington won the Oscar for Training Day and it was a little weird that that’s what he finally won for? Not to say that he’s not deserving of an Oscar. Just that perhaps that was an odd choice of role for it. That’s a little how I feel about Drew Doughty this year. In my humble opinion he’s always deserving of the Norris Trophy. He should have won it last year when he practically carried the entire defense on his shoulders (thank you Voynov.)
But this year when the Kings began their swing in the East and everyone on the Internet was saying this was his chance to impress the East Coast voters of said Trophy, he perhaps didn’t play up to his potential. Which is Norris Trophy worthy.
He can hit.
He can block.
He can goaltend.
He can pass.
He can score.
Okay I could watch these forever. In fact since the Internet has so many highlights and there’s this thing called a DVR it’s practically highway robbery that he’s never won. His time on the ice is currently 4th in the league, though the top two have played 3 more games than Doughty. His average shifts per game is 33.7, the highest in the league. His closest competitor Ryan Suter averages 31.3 shifts. His plus/minus is plus 8 this season, plus 46 in his career in the NHL.
The Kings system is primarily a defensive system, and when called to build his team around one defenseman, hockey genius Dean Lombardi chose to build his around Doughty. Lombardi who is currently the GM of Team USA. And who has won the LA Kings 2 Stanley Cups. On Doughty’s draft day, when he came up on stage to accept his first Kings jersey, Lombardi whispered into his ear “you’re going to win me a Stanley Cup.” He’s won two Olympic gold medals. What more to these people want? So for Christmas I’d like to see Doughty get the Norris he so richly deserves.
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