The smile from right wing Devin Setoguchi adequately answered the question on Saturday morning. The Kings had their final preseason game Saturday night, facing Colorado, and Kopitar played his one and only exhibition contest.
Kopitar, fresh from captaining Team Europe in the World Cup of Hockey, centered a line of Setoguchi and left wing Dustin Brown against the Avalanche at T-Mobile Arena. Setoguchi, who is in training camp on a professional tryout, called this preseason finale “a do-or-die situation.”
“You can’t get any better situation, so there’s really no excuses for me not to be effective out there,” Setoguchi said Saturday morning.