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With a wealth of speed, LA Kings forward Austin Wagner is looking to become a legitimate threat on the team’s bottom-six forwards.
While they were definitely one of the bigger teams in the NHL, the LA Kings were also a tad notorious for being one of the slowest teams in the early- to mid-part of the 2010s. However, when they drafted Austin Wagner in 2015 (4th round, 99th overall), the LA Kings sent a message that, while they wouldn’t turn into the fastest team overnight, choosing a speedster like Wagner would nonetheless begin to turn the tide, so to speak.