Even more subjective than the last post, but a kind of obvious companion to it. I did not consider anyone pre-black-silver-Chevron era, because my memory is not good enough to recall people I disliked pre-…(um)…Mikko Makela. And it wouldn’t be fair.

Again, the rules are: to qualify, you have to be, according to me, the lamest person in Kings history ever to wear a given number.

I noticed as I was compiling the list that there are really only two catagories of shame. (1) Veterans who played great for someone else and sucked for us; (2) draft picks and prospects that didn’t pan out. Seven defensemen, four goalies, 27 forwards. So you’d have to cut about 14 forwards and a couple of goalies to get down to a properly shameful squad of 22. I would cut the future Hall-of-Famers or other sorta-stars who came to LA to suck: Roenick, Ronning, Fuhr, Carter, Tocchet, Stevens, Ferarro, Parrish, Straka, Heinze. Gotta cut two more. Okay, Klima, Tambellini. And two goalies have to go. Knickle and Fuhr. Okay, so here is the full expanded roster, with the opening night line-up following:

1	Rick Knickle
3	Denis Tsygurov
5	Aki Berg
6	Maxim Kuznetzov
7	Cliff Ronning
8	Rene Chapdelaine
9	Ilkka Sinisalo
10	Alyn McCauley
11	Anson Carter
12	Sylvain Couturier Marko Tuomainen
14	Kyosti Karjalainen
21	Kai Nurminen
22	Rick Tocchet
24	Mikko Makela
25	Kevin Stevens
26	Ray Ferraro
28	Guy Leveque
29	Roman Vopat
31	Grant Fuhr
32	Roman Cechmanek
33	Jan Vopat
37	Mark Parrish Patrice Tardif
39	Dan Cloutier
41	Brandy Semchuk
42	Tom Preissing
44	Lauri Tukonen
47	Ladislav Nagy
50	Donald MacLean
51	Jeff Tambellini
55	Pavel Rosa
57	Steve Heinze
62	Scott Barney
77	Rob Cowie
82	Martin Straka
85	Petr Klima
97	Jeremy Roenick

And now, your opening night roster:

MacLean/Makela/Sinisalo

Karjalainen/Nurminen/Tuomainen

Couturier/Nagy/Leveque

Tardif/R. Vopat/Tukonen

(Semchuk:  healthy scratch)

(McCauley, IR)

Berg/Tsugurov

Kuznetzov/Cowie

J. Vopat/Preissing

(Chapdelaine)

Cloutier

Cechmanek

Now, you can’t tell me that’s not a bad team.