2025 Kings Seasons In Review – Trevor Moore

Moving through the forwards, a look at Trevor Moore’s 2024-25 season, as he hit the 40-point mark for the third time in four seasons. Moore’s production came in spurts at times but when he was at full go, he was typically the same player he had been for his entire career to date. More on……Moore, below.

Trevor Moore
LAK Statline – 71 games played, 18 goals, 22 assists, +17 rating, 14 penalty minutes
LAK Playoff Statline – 6 games played, 2 goals, 2 assists, +3 rating, 0 penalty minutes
NHL Possession Metrics (Relative To Kings) – CF% – 54.6% (+1.9%), SCF% – 52.3% (-1.2%), HDCF% – 55.0% (-0.6%)

Trevor Moore’s season started and ended pretty much right where it’s always been. A small stretch in the middle was what seemed to be the outlier. Moore missed time during the middle of the season with an injury that cost him not only eight games in a row but seemed to impact him even at first when he returned to the lineup. All in all, rounded out to be right around his usual production rates, detailed with more depth below.

Trending Up – In Trevor Moore’s first 28 games of the season, he collected 18 points, which amounts to 0.64 points-per-game. In Game 28, he suffered an injury, which cost him some time. In his final 37 games of the season, from February 1 through the playoffs, Moore collected 24 points, which worked out to 0.65 points-per-game. In those extended stretches, when Moore was healthy, he produced at the equivalent of a 53-point player. From 2021-22 to 2023-24, Moore averaged 50 points per 82 games played. So, all of that to say, when he was fully healthy this season, Moore produced pretty much exactly the same way that he has since his breakout season.

During the 2025 postseason, Moore was on the ice for six goals for at even strength, compared to just three goals against. Looking specifically at even-strength situations, no Kings player had a better goal differential than Moore. In looking at expected goals at even strength, Moore was the only player on the Kings above 50 percent for the series. His most common matchups in the series were Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl and Moore was even (1-1) when on the ice against McDavid and positive (2-1) versus Draisaitl. In total, he added four points from six games played with both of his goals coming in tie games, putting the Kings ahead. Moore’s series was underrated as a whole and I think he was one of the better performers in a Kings jersey.

Adding in a section here that was on Phillip Danault’s review as well. On January 29, Moore was slotted in on a line with Danault and Warren Foegele. That line played 33 games together between that point and the end of the season. Of those 33 games, they finished negative as a line in just three games in that span. In total, that line was on the ice for 22 goals for, compared to eight against, while logging the most difficult matchup on most nights. A lot of that credit typically goes to the center, but Moore is an honest player who works hard and is defensively committed and responsible. He was a big part in raising his game over the last few months of the season, with his chemistry on that line a big part of why.

Trending Down – The trending down here is the part of Moore’s season that I did not mention in his first trending up. Moore missed just shy of a month due to injury and when he came back, it didn’t feel like he was fully back. Moore did not score in his first 12 games back from injury and had just two assists in that time. While he didn’t make an excuse of the injury, he just didn’t quite look like himself in January in most phases of his game. That was certainly reflected in the production. Once it clicked back in, Moore was fine, even if his season as a whole didn’t match last season’s goalscoring output. That stretch of games was probably the lowest point of Moore’s season, especially during a time when the Kings needed more from their scoring forwards as they struggled to put the puck in the net as a whole.

If I look at Moore’s season-over-season numbers, one area perhaps of concern was a drop-off in where his chances came from this season. In 2023-24 in particular, Moore scored a lot with his shot from those Grade-B areas of the ice. It was a big part of his first career 30-goal season, was straight up beating goaltenders with his shot. If you look at this past season, his total shot attempts were very similar, season-over-season, but if you look at scoring chances and high-danger chances, a lower percentage of Moore’s looks were from dangerous areas. Maybe part of just being that little bit off at times, where he wasn’t able to get into those dangerous positions as he did last season. It’s an area that I noticed as well with the eye test, especially early in the season, that dropped off. Overall, we saw a lot less of that this past season, both in attempts and goals and it’s an area I think everyone would like to see uptick again going forward.

2025-26 Status – Moore has three seasons remaining on his current contract, coming with an AAV of $4,200,000. I’ll again echo here what I wrote on Danault’s article. I don’t see there being any desire to trade Trevor Moore. He’s a terrific fit here and he’s proven to be an effective middle-six forward who jives with the way the Kings like to play. However, he does have one of the larger cap hits on the team among players without no-trade protection. So, if the Kings found themselves in need of space as they restructure their roster, Moore is a player who could potentially be moved out. Again, I don’t think there’s any desire simply to move Moore, but the business is the business on that front, for a team that has fallen short in the postseason.