The Los Angeles Kings do a lot of things extraordinarily well on the ice and have established themselves as a playoff team.

They are one of the league's best possession driving teams and consistently outchance their opponents. They finished the 2023-24 season in the top five in both shot attempt shares per 60 minutes and expected goals share per 60 minutes, and they also are a relentless defensive team.

However, they still have a ways to go before they truly become a Stanley Cup contender and are capable of making more noise in the playoffs.

One of their biggest flaws is a need for more goal-scorers who can turn some of that territorial dominance into goals. Buchnevich could help solve that.

While the Kings do have some really good high-end players offensively (Anze Kopitar, Kevin Fiala, Quinton Byfield) they need more help when it comes to their secondary scoring.

They finished the regular season just 17th in the league in goals per game and were especially bad in the second half of the season. From January 1 until the end of the regular season, they dropped all the way down to 24th in the league in goals per game.

None of that is good enough to get them where they want to be, or should be by this point in their rebuild.