Kings didn't rush Kempe's development, and it's paying off
by Curtis Zupke, Los Angeles Times
Nov 14, 2017
3 minutes
LOS ANGELES - The clock was ticking on Adrian Kempe from the moment the Los Angeles Kings took him in the first round of the 2014 draft.
First-round selections are saddled with high expectations in the right-now world of hockey, where teenagers are sometimes rushed into the NHL too soon. But the Kings weren't counting every second of that time, even as other teenage European members of that draft class such
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