RickW

As a Kings fan, I can tell you Richards was monumental to their Stanley Cup run. All our young players were intimidated by the dominant teams in the division and Vancouver regularly ran us out of the building. Then we opened on the road in the first round against Vancouver that year and Richards was having none of it. Set the tone by dominating the game physically and Kings looked like a different team. They rolled from there. Is he going to put up big hits ever? No, Kings fans are plenty happy with him.

Wow. Seems a bit much for a guy who plays no defense, has never scored 40 goals in a season and has been a negative +/- player in every season but once since he has been in the NHL. Positive is he's only 26 so should still be effective at the end of the contract.