Videos: End-of-year press conferences; McLellan in LA

A fine Monday morning to you, Kings fans. Hockey news outside of the playoffs didn’t spark fire over the weekend, but late last night, John Shannon shared this detail:

Expect more news of the sort this week.

I’ll finish up what remains of last week’s media day; there’s more from Adrian Kempe and Alex Iafallo, and I want to circle back to re-listen to some of Dustin Brown and Drew Doughty to wrap that up. But if you’ve been in-and-out of the team’s comings-and-goings, or are looking for some context and want to remain caught up, here are the Rob Blake, Anze Kopitar, Brown and Doughty videos:

— Lead photo via Adam Pantozzi/NHLI

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