{"id":539132,"date":"2026-04-03T21:04:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T21:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/539132\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T21:04:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T21:04:54","slug":"kings-celebrate-kopitars-franchise-points-record-with-special-pregame-ceremony-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/539132\/","title":{"rendered":"Kings celebrate Kopitar\u2019s franchise points record with special pregame ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/anze-kopitar-8471685\" title=\"Anze Kopitar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anze Kopitar<\/a>\u00a0received the royal treatment in Los Angeles on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Kings celebrated their captain for becoming the franchise\u2019s all-time leading scorer with a special pregame ceremony before the team\u2019s game against the Nashville Predators at Crypto.com Arena.<\/p>\n<p>On March 14, Kopitar passed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/marcel-dionne-8446430\" title=\"Marcel Dionne\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marcel Dionne<\/a>\u00a0as the Kings all-time points leader when he notched two goals, for his 1,307th and 1,308th career point, against the New Jersey Devils at Prudential Center.<\/p>\n<p>Kopitar\u2019s wife, Ines, and kids, Neza and Jakob, parents, brother, sister-in-law and nieces joined him on the ice for the celebration.<\/p>\n<p>Kings president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/luc-robitaille-8450941\" title=\"Luc Robitaille\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luc Robitaille<\/a>, former Kings star and general manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/dave-taylor-8451866\" title=\"Dave Taylor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dave Taylor<\/a>, and former teammates\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/alec-martinez-8474166\" title=\"Alec Martinez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alec Martinez<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/jarret-stoll-8468526\" title=\"Jarret Stoll\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jarret Stoll<\/a> also attended the ceremony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anze Kopitar\u00a0received the royal treatment in Los Angeles on Thursday. The Los Angeles Kings celebrated their captain for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5126],"tags":[5,186,1760,240,5303,793,145,5304,5302,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-539132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-kings","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-kings","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-la-kings","12":"tag-lakings","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-los-angeles-kings","15":"tag-losangeles","16":"tag-losangeleskings","17":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116342811853944220","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}