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1983-84 Los Angeles Kings Roster and Statistics

Record: 23-44-13 (59 points), Finished 5th in NHL Smythe Division (Schedule and Results)

Coach: Don Perry (14-27-9), Rogie Vachon (1-0-1), Roger Neilson (8-17-3)

Primary Arena: The Forum

Goals For: 309 (11th of 21), Goals Against: 376 (19th of 21)
SRS: -0.76 (18th of 21), SOS: 0.08 (6th of 21)

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Recent Game Results

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Team Statistics

Team Statistics Table
Team	GP	W	L	T	PTS	PTS%	GF	GA	SRS	SOS	GF/G	GA/G	PP	PPO	PP%	PPA	PPOA	PK%	SH	SHA	S	S%	SA	SV%	PDO	SO
Los Angeles Kings	80	23	44	13	59	.369	309	376	-0.76	0.08	3.86	4.70	75	360	20.83	82	294	72.11	10	17	2471	12.5	2535	.852		1
League Average	80	36	36	8	80	.500	316	316					74	336	21.98	74	336	78.02	11	11	2448	12.9	2448	.871		2

Team Analytics (at 5-on-5)

Team Analytics (at 5-on-5) Table
Team	S%	SV%	PDO	CF	CA	CF%	xGF	xGA	aGF	aGA	axDiff	SCF	SCA	SCF%	HDF	HDA	HDF%	HDGF	HDC%	HDGA	HDCO%
Los Angeles Kings
League Average

Roster

Age is on February 1 of given season

Roster Table
No.	Player	Birth	Pos	Age	Ht	Wt	S/C	Exp	Birth Date
4	Russ Anderson	us US	D	28	6-3	210	L/-	7	February 12, 1955
31	Marco Baron	ca CA	G	24	5-11	180	-/L	4	April 8, 1959
28	Fred Barrett	ca CA	D	34	5-11	195	L/-	12	January 26, 1950
30	Mike Blake	ca CA	G	27	6-0	185	-/L	2	April 6, 1956
25	Dan Brennan	ca CA	LW	21	6-3	210	L/-	R	October 1, 1962
3	Marc Chorney	ca CA	D	24	6-0	200	L/-	3	November 8, 1959
12	Steve Christoff	us US	RW	26	6-1	180	R/-	4	January 23, 1958
16	Marcel Dionne	ca CA	C	32	5-9	190	R/-	12	August 3, 1951
5	Brian Engblom	ca CA	D	29	6-2	200	L/-	6	January 27, 1955
15	Daryl Evans	ca CA	LW	23	5-9	185	L/-	2	January 12, 1961
19	Jim Fox	ca CA	RW	23	5-8	185	R/-	3	May 18, 1960
21	Anders Håkansson	se SE	LW	27	6-2	190	L/-	2	April 27, 1956
20	Mark Hardy	ch CH	D	24	5-11	195	L/-	4	February 1, 1959
15	Billy Harris	ca CA	RW	32	6-2	195	L/-	11	January 29, 1952
28	Mike Heidt	ca CA	D	20	6-1	190	L/-	R	November 4, 1963
22	Warren Holmes	ca CA	C	26	6-1	195	L/-	2	February 18, 1957
25	Ken Houston	ca CA	RW	30	6-2	210	R/-	8	September 15, 1953
26	Wes Jarvis	ca CA	C	25	5-11	185	L/-	4	May 30, 1958
22	Dean Jenkins	us US	RW	24	6-0	190	R/-	R	November 21, 1959
17	John Paul Kelly	ca CA	LW	24	6-1	215	L/-	4	November 15, 1959
6	Dean Kennedy	ca CA	D	21	6-2	208	R/-	1	January 18, 1963
10	Bob LaForest	ca CA	RW	20	5-10	195	R/-	R	May 19, 1963
29	Gary Laskoski	ca CA	G	24	6-1	175	-/L	1	June 6, 1959
14	Kevin LaVallee	ca CA	LW	22	5-8	180	L/-	3	September 16, 1961
1	Mario Lessard	ca CA	G	29	5-9	190	-/L	5	June 25, 1954
27	Brian MacLellan	ca CA	LW	25	6-3	220	L/-	1	October 27, 1958
30	Markus Mattsson	fi FI	G	26	6-0	180	-/R	3	July 30, 1957
2	Mike McEwen	ca CA	D	27	6-1	185	L/-	7	August 10, 1956
5	Larry Murphy	ca CA	D	22	6-2	210	R/-	3	March 8, 1961
9	Bernie Nicholls	ca CA	C	22	6-0	185	R/-	2	June 24, 1961
10	Bill O'Dwyer	us US	C	24	6-0	190	L/-	R	January 25, 1960
8	Terry Ruskowski (C)	ca CA	C	29	5-10	178	L/-	4	December 31, 1954
11	Charlie Simmer	ca CA	LW	29	6-3	210	L/-	9	March 20, 1954
23	Doug Smith	ca CA	C	20	5-11	186	R/-	2	May 17, 1963
14	Phil Sykes	ca CA	LW	24	6-0	175	L/-	1	March 18, 1959
18	Dave Taylor	ca CA	RW	28	6-0	190	R/-	6	December 4, 1955
24	Jay Wells	ca CA	D	24	6-1	210	L/-	4	May 18, 1959

Scoring Regular Season

Players on this team's active roster in bold

Scoring Regular Season Table
					Scoring					Goals				Assists					Ice Time		Point Shares
Rk	Player	Age	Pos	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	EV	PP	SH	GW	EV	PP	SH	S	S%	TOI	ATOI	OPS	DPS	PS
1	Bernie Nicholls	22	C	78	41	54	95	-22	83	29	8	4	2	32	21	1	255	16.1			6.3	0.5	6.7
2	Charlie Simmer	29	LW	79	44	48	92	7	78	30	13	1	4	33	15	0	188	23.4			6.2	1.2	7.4
3	Marcel Dionne*	32	C	66	39	53	92	7	28	26	13	0	2	34	19	0	282	13.8			6.4	1.1	7.4
4	Jim Fox	23	RW	80	30	42	72	-11	26	20	10	0	5	34	8	0	153	19.6			3.8	0.8	4.6
5	Dave Taylor	28	RW	63	20	49	69	-3	91	14	6	0	2	37	12	0	150	13.3			3.6	0.8	4.4
6	Brian MacLellan	25	LW	72	25	29	54	-19	45	21	3	1	1	18	9	2	106	23.6			2.6	0.5	3.1
7	Mark Hardy	24	D	79	8	41	49	-30	122	3	5	0	1	17	22	2	175	4.6			2.3	2.2	4.5
8	Doug Smith	20	C	72	16	20	36	-32	28	10	6	0	0	16	3	1	146	11.0			0.8	0.1	0.9
9	Mike McEwen	27	D	47	10	24	34	-12	14	3	7	0	0	14	10	0	133	7.5			2.0	1.6	3.6
10	Anders Håkansson	27	LW	80	15	17	32	-7	41	14	0	1	3	12	1	4	117	12.8			0.1	0.9	1.0
11	Terry Ruskowski	29	C	77	7	25	32	-26	89	5	0	2	1	22	2	1	51	13.7			-0.3	0.4	0.0
12	Brian Engblom	29	D	74	2	27	29	-9	59	0	2	0	0	18	8	1	126	1.6			0.6	3.0	3.6
13	Wes Jarvis	25	C	61	9	13	22	-8	36	7	1	1	0	13	0	0	63	14.3			-0.3	0.6	0.3
14	John Paul Kelly	24	LW	72	7	14	21	-34	73	7	0	0	0	14	0	0	87	8.0			-0.9	0.1	-0.8
15	Jay Wells	24	D	69	3	18	21	-10	141	3	0	0	0	16	1	1	96	3.1			0.2	2.7	3.0
16	Russ Anderson	28	D	70	5	12	17	-30	126	5	0	0	1	11	1	0	47	10.6			0.1	1.8	1.8
17	Ken Houston	30	RW	33	8	8	16	-3	11	8	0	0	0	8	0	0	35	22.9			0.4	0.4	0.7
18	Steve Christoff	26	RW	58	8	7	15	-19	13	8	0	0	1	6	1	0	74	10.8			-0.7	0.3	-0.4
19	Marc Chorney	24	D	71	3	9	12	-25	58	3	0	0	0	6	2	1	57	5.3			-0.4	2.1	1.6
20	Kevin LaVallee	22	LW	19	3	3	6	-5	2	3	0	0	0	3	0	0	41	7.3			-0.1	0.1	0.0
21	Billy Harris	32	RW	21	2	4	6	-3	6	2	0	0	0	4	0	0	19	10.5			-0.3	0.2	-0.1
22	Dean Kennedy	21	D	37	1	5	6	-4	50	1	0	0	0	5	0	0	22	4.5			-0.3	1.5	1.3
23	Larry Murphy*	22	D	6	0	3	3	-5	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	11	0.0			0.1	0.0	0.1
24	Fred Barrett	34	D	15	2	0	2	-4	8	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	50.0			0.0	0.5	0.5
25	Marco Baron	24	G	21	0	2	2	0	10				0	2			0		1206	57:25	0.0	0.0	2.8
26	Bob LaForest	20	RW	5	1	0	1	-4	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	15	6.7			-0.1	0.0	-0.1
27	Mike Blake	27	G	29	0	1	1	0	6				0	1			0		1631	56:14	0.0	0.0	4.4
28	Daryl Evans	23	LW	4	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	6	0.0			-0.1	0.1	0.0
29	Mike Heidt	20	D	6	0	1	1	-1	7	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0.0			-0.1	0.2	0.2
30	Dan Brennan	21	LW	2	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0			-0.1	0.0	-0.1
31	Warren Holmes	26	C	3	0	0	0	-3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0.0			-0.1	0.0	-0.2
32	Dean Jenkins	24	RW	5	0	0	0	-1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0.0			-0.2	0.0	-0.2
33	Gary Laskoski	24	G	13	0	0	0	0	0				0	0			0		663	50:59	0.0	0.0	0.7
34	Mario Lessard	29	G	6	0	0	0	0	0				0	0			0		265	44:11	0.0	0.0	0.4
35	Markus Mattsson	26	G	19	0	0	0	0	0				0	0			0		1096	57:43	0.0	0.0	2.0
36	Bill O'Dwyer	24	C	5	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.0			-0.2	0.1	-0.1
37	Phil Sykes	24	LW	3	0	0	0	-1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.0			-0.1	0.0	-0.1
	Team Total			80	309	530	839	-316	1257	224	75	10	23	379	137	14	2471	12.5			31.2	23.7	65.1

Goalies Regular Season

Players on this team's active roster in bold

Goalies Regular Season Table
			Goalie Stats
Rk	Player	Age	GP	GS	W	L	T/O	GA	SA	SV	SV%	GAA	SO	MIN	QS	QS%	RBS	GA%-	GSAA	adjGAA	GPS
1	Mike Blake	27	29		9	11	5	118	890	772	.867	4.34	0	1631				105	-5.2	3.42	4.4
2	Markus Mattsson	26	19		7	8	2	79	529	450	.851	4.32	1	1096				118	-11.9	3.39	2.0
3	Gary Laskoski	24	13		4	7	1	55	319	264	.828	4.98	0	663						3.89	0.7
4	Marco Baron	24	21		3	14	4	87	628	541	.861	4.33	0	1206				109	-7.4	3.38	2.8
5	Mario Lessard	29	6		0	4	1	26	158	132	.835	5.88	0	265						4.53	0.4
	Team Total				23	44	13	365	2524	2159	.855	4.51	1	4861				114	-45.0	3.53	10.3