LA Kings star calls five-game NHL road trip 'bad timing' as team leaves with wildfires causing devastation Los Angeles Kings longtime star and captain Anze Kopitar has called the team's upcoming five-game road trip 'bad timing' with the ongoing wildfires in southern California.
At least 10 people have died as a result of the wildfires with mass devastation across the area.
Kopitar has called the team's upcoming road trip 'bad timing' with the ongoing wildfires.
Los Angeles' road trip starts Friday against the Winnipeg Jets and continues with three more games in Canada through next Thursday before finishing the five-game swing in Seattle.
Not since Wayne Gretzky has a player better defined being a Los Angeles King than Kopitar, with him representing a larger community in his spotlight role.
