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In the same vein as New York Rangers forward Alexis Lafreniere, let’s talk about the path of LA Kings centre Quinton Byfield so far.
Article: https://thehockeynews.com/nhl/los-angeles-kings/news/los-angeles-kings-quinton-byfield-healthy-ready-for-breakout-season
Reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/losangeleskings/comments/17133z4/byfield_is_consistently_the_least_noticeable/
This video is taking place after the 2023 NHL Entry Draft, and after the 2023 Stanley Cup Playoffs.
The 2023 NHL Draft 1st Round went as follows:
1st) Chicago Blackhawks, Connor Bedard
2nd) Anaheim Ducks, Leo Carlsson
3rd) Columbus Blue Jackets, Adam Fantilli
4th) San Jose Sharks, Will Smith
5th) Montreal Canadiens, David Reinbacher
6th) Arizona Coyotes, Dmitri Simashev
7th) Philadelphia Flyers, Matvei Michkov
8th) Washington Capitals, Ryan Leonard
9th) Detroit Red Wings, Nate Danielson
10th) St. Louis Blues, Dalibor Dvorsky
11th) Vancouver Canucks, Tom Willander
12th) Arizona Coyotes (from Ottawa Senators), Daniil But
13th) Buffalo Sabres, Zach Benson
14th) Pittsburgh Penguins, Brayden Yager
15th) Nashville Predators, Matthew Wood
16th) Calgary Flames, Samuel Honzek
17th) Detroit Red Wings (from New York Islanders via Vancouver Canucks), Axel Sandin Pellikka
18th) Winnipeg Jets, Colby Barlow
19th) Chicago Blackhawks (from Tampa Bay Lightning), Oliver Moore
20th) Seattle Kraken, Eduard Sale
21st) Minnesota Wild, Charlie Stramel
22nd) Philadelphia Flyers (from Los Angeles Kings via Columbus Blue Jackets), Oliver Bonk
23rd) New York Rangers, Gabe Perreault
24th) Nashville Predators (from Edmonton Oilers), Tanner Molendyk
25th) St. Louis Blues (from Toronto Maple Leafs), Otto Stenberg
26th) San Jose Sharks (from New Jersey Devils), Quentin Musty
27th) Colorado Avalanche, Calum Ritchie
28th) Toronto Maple Leafs (from Boston Bruins via Washington Capitals), Easton Cowan
29th) St. Louis Blues (from Dallas Stars via New York Rangers), Theo Lindstein
30th) Carolina Hurricanes, Bradley Nadeau
31st) Colorado Avalanche (from Florida Panthers via Montreal Canadiens), Mikhail Gulyayev
32nd) Vegas Golden Knights, David Edstrom
This video is also taking place after 2023 NHL Season, and after the 2023 Stanley Cup Playoffs, where the Vegas Golden Knights defeated the Florida Panthers in the Finals.
Quinton Byfield was one of the top NHL prospects at the 2020 NHL Entry Draft.
The 2020 NHL Entry Draft saw many top NHL prospects get selected by a variety of teams. The first round of the draft went as follows:
1st) New York Rangers, Alexis Lafrenière
2nd) Los Angeles Kings, Quinton Byfield
3rd) Ottawa Senators (from San Jose Sharks), Tim Stützle
4th) Detroit Red Wings, Lucas Raymond
5th) Ottawa Senators, Jake Sanderson
6th) Anaheim Ducks, Jamie Drysdale
7th) New Jersey Devils, Alexander Holtz
8th) Buffalo Sabres, Jack Quinn
9th) Minnesota Wild, Marco Rossi
10th) Winnipeg Jets, Cole Perfetti
11th) Nashville Predators, Yaroslav Askarov
12th) Florida Panthers, Anton Lundell
13th) Carolina Hurricanes (from Toronto Maple Leafs), Seth Jarvis
14th) Edmonton Oilers, Dylan Holloway
15th) Toronto Maple Leafs (from Pittsburgh Penguins), Rodion Amirov
16th) Montreal Canadiens, Kaiden Guhle
17th) Chicago Blackhawks, Lukas Reichel
18th) New Jersey Devils (from Arizona Coyotes), Dawson Mercer
19th) New York Rangers (from Calgary Flames), Braden Schneider
20th) New Jersey Devils (from Vancouver Canucks), Shakir Mukhamadullin
21st) Columbus Blue Jackets, Yegor Chinakov
22nd) Washington Capitals (from Carolina Hurricanes via New York Rangers and Calgary Flames), Hendrix Lapierre
23rd) Philadelphia Flyers, Tyson Foerster
24th) Calgary Flames (from Washington Capitals), Connor Zary
25th) Colorado Avalanche, Justin Barron
26th) St. Louis Blues, Jake Neighbours
27th) Anaheim Ducks (from Boston Bruins), Jacob Perreault
28th) Ottawa Senators (from New York Islanders), Ridly Greig
29th) Vegas Golden Knights, Brendan Brisson
30th) Dallas Stars, Mavrik Bourque
31st) San Jose Sharks (from Tampa Bay Lightning), Ozzy Wiesblatt
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10 Comments
By the lack of comments on the video, its easy to see why Byfield doesn't have the same pressure. He plays in LA where King's fans don't care about the team unless its playing well. The Rangers sell out MSG every night and play in a much more demanding sports market where as the Kings were 23rd in attendance last year.
People are so blind. BOTH Lafreniere and Byfield went to teams with vets on the team so they didn't get there top 6 minutes off the jump let alone that effected development compared to guys like Stutzle were he went to a young team in OTT and they let him play top 6 mins no matter how bad they were and let him play his natural position compared to Laf and QB being all over the lineup. LA needs to put Byfield at Center and move PLD or Danault to the wing to get the guy that was advertised. Putting QB at LW is just a set up for failure.
Just let these two grow on their own pace and if they don’t meet expectations so be it.
Kings have their young guys work on defense skill more than offense…
I’m not a big fan of Byfield, but I don’t dislike him either …
Kempe is a good example, they developed his defense first… now many years later his a top dog
Byfield has been a good player but the kings play a defense game. He needs to start shooting the puck more. He stated that he would rather pass the puck to Kempe because he scores a lot. His shooting percentage was only at 6 percent last year.
His overall game is solid. This has to be the year for him to step up. We need 50 points out of him this year. He should get that playing on the top line a full season.
I have no worries, the kid is going to be the BOMB. The good kind.
Playing in the NHL as a 20 year old while being 15-20 lbs underweight and having 2 sprained wrists is insane. Hopefully there's no more setbacks/excuses this year and he can start to settle in to this league. Think he can realistically hit 60 points this year.
Byfield has been a really solid player ever since they put him on the wing with Kopitar and Kempe and he's showed a lot of potential he makes some elite level passes, wins board/puck battles, and plays good defense the only thing he has issues with is scoring goals he's had a really hard time putting the puck in the net, but hopefully that was because of the wrist issues he had last year cause at the beginning of the year he was scoring some high skill goals in the AHL like between the legs goals, and goals where he deked through the defense
Im a the Biggest supporter of QB, he's going to shut the haters mouth up this year🤬 creep's
As a Kings fan, I feel Byfield has been disappointing. Fairly anonymous most nights, other than the Vegas game he was fairly poor all preseason too. It isn’t so much his lack of points, more so he seems terrified to make any plays with the puck. Hardly keeps possession of the puck, want to get rid of it almost immediately even when not under pressure.
The team needs to see it through and give him a long leash on LW1, but he needs to pick it up sooner than later