3 best wingers Anze Kopitar ever played with

As one of the all-time greats in Los Angeles Kings' franchise history, future Hall-of-Fame center Anze Kopitar is still putting up great numbers and leading the way for this team nearly two decades after he first entered the league as a rookie in the 2006-07 season.

While he's not producing at the same level he did a decade ago in his prime years with the Kings, Kopitar still scored 20 goals and 40 assists for the third consecutive season with LA this past campaign in 2024-25. He finished up this past season second on the team in points (67), only behind star left winger Adrian Kempe.

Veteran star center Anze Kopitar has scored over 1,200 points in his legendary Los Angeles Kings career that spans over 15 years since the mid-2000s

Kopitar's accolades with the Kings go back multiple decades, including winning multiple Stanley Cup rings, five All-Star selections, and three Lady Byng Trophy awards.

In his time with the Kings over the past nearly 20 years, Kopitar has played with some great wingers who have helped LA boost their scoring and spot in the standings and the postseason.

Honorable mentions

Kevin Fiala

One-time All-Star winger Kevin Fiala tied fellow Kings winger Adrian Kempe for the team lead in goals this past season for LA, with 35 each.

This past season, Kopitar notched his 800th career assist on a Fiala goal, making Anze just the fifth non-American-born player in the NHL to reach that mark in their pro career.

The two reasons Fiala isn't higher on this list of the best wingers Kopitar has played with is because he's only spent three years with the Kings and his line pairings haven't been together much. Fiala hasn't played over 20 percent of his line minutes with Kopitar at center in any of his three seasons with the Kings (since 2022).

Marian Gaborik

Three-time 40-goal scorer and former star right-winger for the Kings and Minnesota Wild, Marian Gaborik, helped Kopitar and the Kings win their second Stanley Cup in three years in the 2014 postseason. Kopitar and Gaborik were really fun and dynamic to watch together on the top line for the Kings in the mid-2010s decade.

Gaborik was limited by injury issues in his three seasons playing with the Kings. But his double-digit goals in 5-on-5 hockey in the 2014 postseason were a significant contributing factor in the Kings winning the Stanley Cup that year.

Alex Frolov

Frolov helped Kopitar along during his sensational rookie season in the 2006-07 campaign. He played a key role in helping to mentor Kopitar during the 2006-07 season for the then-rookie center for the Kings. Kopitar became the only Kings rookie to score 20 goals and 40 assists in that campaign in the past three decades.

Kopitar looked up to Frolov as a role model and a player to learn skills from, and he watched when he was younger and growing up playing hockey in Eastern Europe.

"When I was young, I watched a lot of Russian hockey and I know it takes a lot of skills. I think me and Fro are getting along really good."

Anze Kopitar on Alex Frolov

Dustin Brown, RW

Years as teammates with Kopitar (2006-2022)

Kopitar and longtime Kings captain Dustin Brown form arguably the most iconic pairing duo in recent LA franchise history. Kopitar and Brown not only brought the Kings two Stanley Cup championships in the early-to-mid 2010s, but they also led this team through every deep postseason run in the past decade in the 2010s.

Brown and Kopitar are the only captains the Kings had for the past decade and a half. And Brown nearly played in every single game Kopitar did (which was over 1,000 games played together as forwards for the Kings) in the regular season with the Kings in the late 2000s and all of the 2010s.

These two are up there with the Sedin twins in Vancouver and Brent Seabrook and Duncan Keith with Chicago among the players who played over 1,000 NHL career games together in the regular season.

Adrian Kempe, LW

Years as teammates with Kopitar (2016-Present)

Adrian Kempe has provided the Kings with more confidence and goal-scoring acumen as young players like Quinton Byfield and Alex Laferriere have developed on the offensive end in the last couple of years. Kempe is the only Kings player to score over 70 points in the past two seasons in the league.

Kempe and Kopitar have led this blossoming of the youth movement developing with the Kings franchise in the last half-decade.

I think Kopitar deserves a lot of credit for helping Kempe take his game to another level in terms of goal-scoring production in the past few years with the Kings. It wasn't until Kempe started playing on the same line with Kopitar that he started producing All-Star-caliber numbers in goals and assists for the Kings in the past few years.

Justin Williams, RW

Years as teammates with Kopitar (2008-2015)

Longtime Carolina Hurricanes, Philadelphia Flyers, and Kings veteran winger Justin Williams was a key part of LA's postseason success, winning two Stanley Cups in 2012 and 2014 for this team. Williams ranks sixth in all-time postseason scoring in Kings franchise history.

After the three-time Stanley Cup Champion Williams called it a career in 2020, Kopitar gave him a shoutout in a post on social media.

Williams won the Conn Smythe Trophy after leading the postseason in plus/minus and registering over a half dozen points in the Kings' convincing five-game series win over the Rangers.

The reason why Williams is on this list, instead of someone like Gaborik or Frolov, is how long he played with Kopitar with the Kings and the postseason accolades. Kopitar and Williams contributed over 300 regular season points as linemates with the Kings and over 50 in the postseason.