While the 2017-18 season ended with more of a whimper than Kings fans hoped for, we still learned a lot about the team, its players, and the direction for the future. Over the course of the next month, we’ll dive into the Kings’ roster and take a look at what worked, what didn’t work, and what things might look like in the coming season. The next installment in our Year in Review series looks at two defensive stalwarts.
Muzzin and Martinez. Martinez and Muzzin. It’s always flowed right off the tongue, hasn’t it?
As recently as last summer, it was easy to think of the Los Angeles Kings’ #2 and #3 defensemen as one two-headed, modestly-compensated, minute-chomping monster on the back end.