The Kings skate into Carolina on Tuesday missing two of their top forwards, a situation coach John Stevens is calling more an opportunity than a problem.
Gone are right wing Dustin Brown and center Trevor Lewis, the first serving a one-game suspension for rough play and the second a victim of a rough play that will keep him sidelined indefinitely. And those absences, Stevens said, leave him with 35 minutes of ice time to fill against the Hurricanes.
"We're not going to take all these minutes and give them to one guy, but there is opportunity there for lots of different people that are, quite honestly, waiting for those opportunities," Stevens said after the team's brisk 50-minute practice Monday.