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LOS ANGELES — Last April, when Los Angeles Kings forward prospect Brian O’Neill was named as the 2014-15 recipient of the Les Cunningham Award as the American Hockey League’s Most Valuable Player, if you listened carefully enough, you may have heard people asking, “who?”
Indeed, it was not until this past season that O’Neill began to appear on the radar as a legitimate Kings prospect.
“A lot of that has to do with my age, being a late bloomer, going to college and not being drafted,” said O’Neill.