1984–85 Los Angeles Kings season

1984–85 Los Angeles Kings
Division	4th Smythe
Conference	6th Campbell
1984–85 record	34-32-14
Goals for	339
Goals against	326
Team information
General manager	Rogie Vachon
Coach	Pat Quinn
Captain	Terry Ruskowski
Alternate captains	None
Arena	The Forum
Average attendance	486,624
Team leaders
Goals	Marcel Dionne and Bernie Nicholls (46)
Assists	Marcel Dionne (80)
Points	Marcel Dionne (126)
Penalty minutes	Jay Wells (185)
Plus/minus	Dave Taylor (+13)
Wins	Bob Janecyk (22)
Goals against average	Bob Janecyk (3.66)
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The 1984–85 Los Angeles Kings season, was the Kings' 18th season in the National Hockey League. Following a fifth-place finish the previous season under three different coaches, Pat Quinn was hired as the new head coach of the Kings. In his first season, he returned them to the playoffs after a three-year absence with a 23-point improvement in the standings. But despite the goal scoring brilliance of Marcel Dionne and Bernie Nicholls, the Kings could not duplicate their Miracle on Manchester performance this time, losing to the Edmonton Oilers in three straight games in the Smythe Division semi-finals.

Offseason[]

Transactions[]

• June 9, 1984 – Acquired Bob Janecyk, a first-round choice in the 1984 NHL Entry Draft (Craig Redmond), a third-round choice in the 1984 NHL Entry Draft (John English) and a fourth-round choice in the 1984 NHL Entry Draft (Tom Glavine) from Chicago for a first-round choice in the 1984 NHL Entry Draft and a fourth-round choice in the 1984 NHL Entry Draft.

NHL Draft[]

• This draft would the first for Rogie Vachon as the team's general manager. It would be memorable in Kings history for hits as well as misses. On the down side, the team's first round selection, Craig Redmond, didn't amount to much, and they used their fourth round draft pick on Tom Glavine, who opted instead to play professional baseball with the Atlanta Braves.^[1] But on the plus side, Vachon struck gold in the 9th round with the 171st pick overall by choosing future Hockey Hall of Fame member Luc Robitaille.

Regular season[]

Season standings[]

Smythe Division

	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS
Edmonton Oilers	80	49	20	11	401	298	109
Winnipeg Jets	80	43	27	10	358	332	96
Calgary Flames	80	41	27	12	363	302	94
Los Angeles Kings	80	34	32	14	339	326	82
Vancouver Canucks	80	25	46	9	284	401	59

^[2]Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against

Note: Teams that qualified for the playoffs are highlighted in bold.

Schedule and results[]

1984-85 Game Log
October Game Date Opponent Score Location/attendance Record 1 11 Edmonton Oilers 2-2 Los Angeles 0-0-1 2 13 Vancouver Canucks 5-6 (OT) Los Angeles 0-1-1 3 14 St. Louis Blues 2-5 Los Angeles 0-2-1 4 16 Washington Capitals 3-5 Washington 0-3-1 5 18 Montreal Canadiens 3-3 Montreal 0-3-2 6 20 New York Islanders 3-8 Uniondale 0-4-2 7 21 Chicago Black Hawks 2-5 Chicago 0-5-2 8 26 Edmonton Oilers 2-8 Edmonton 0-6-2 9 27 Winnipeg Jets 2-2 Winnipeg 0-6-3 10 29 Winnipeg Jets 5-3 Winnipeg 1-6-3 11 31 Vancouver Canucks 10-3 Vancouver 2-6-3
November Game Date Opponent Score Location/attendance Record 12 3 Toronto Maple Leafs 7-0 Los Angeles 3-6-3 13 5 Chicago Black Hawks 2-3 Los Angeles 3-7-3 14 9 Buffalo Sabres 3-2 Los Angeles 4-7-3 15 11 New York Rangers 4-2 New York 5-7-3 16 13 Quebec Nordiques 5-4 (OT) Quebec City 6-7-3 17 14 Toronto Maple Leafs 4-3 Toronto 7-7-3 18 17 Pittsburgh Penguins 5-3 Los Angeles 8-7-3 19 19 Calgary Flames 5-4 Los Angeles 9-7-3 20 21 New Jersey Devils 8-1 Los Angeles 10-7-3 21 24 Winnipeg Jets 5-9 Los Angeles 10-8-3 22 27 Winnipeg Jets 3-5 Los Angeles 10-9-3 23 29 Vancouver Canucks 12-1 Los Angeles 11-9-3
December Game Date Opponent Score Location/attendance Record 24 1 Vancouver Canucks 6-3 Los Angeles 12-9-3 25 4 Minnesota North Stars 2-2 Minnesota 12-9-4 26 5 Chicago Black Hawks 5-5 Chicago 12-9-5 27 8 Montreal Canadiens 7-9 Montreal 12-10-5 28 10 New York Rangers 2-4 New York 12-11-5 29 13 Edmonton Oilers 7-2 Los Angeles 13-11-5 30 15 Calgary Flames 6-5 Los Angeles 14-11-5 31 18 Calgary Flames 6-3 Calgary 15-11-5 32 19 Edmonton Oilers 3-7 Edmonton 15-12-5 33 22 Winnipeg Jets 2-6 Winnipeg 15-13-5 34 23 Winnipeg Jets 4-4 Winnipeg 15-13-6 35 26 Vancouver Canucks 3-3 Vancouver 15-13-7 36 27 Boston Bruins 6-6 Los Angeles 15-13-8 37 30 Philadelphia Flyers 2-3 Los Angeles 15-14-8
January Game Date Opponent Score Location/attendance Record 38 3 Minnesota North Stars 3-8 Los Angeles 15-15-8 39 5 Detroit Red Wings 5-3 Detroit 16-15-8 40 7 Boston Bruins 4-5 (OT) Boston 16-16-8 41 9 Calgary Flames 4-4 Calgary 16-16-9 42 12 Winnipeg Jets 6-4 Los Angeles 17-16-9 43 13 Winnipeg Jets 5-6 Los Angeles 17-17-9 44 16 Toronto Maple Leafs 3-4 Los Angeles 17-18-9 45 19 New York Islanders 6-5 (OT) Los Angeles 18-18-9 46 21 Edmonton Oilers 7-8 Edmonton 18-19-9 47 23 Philadelphia Flyers 6-3 Los Angeles 19-19-9 48 25 St. Louis Blues 3-6 St. Louis 19-20-9 49 26 St. Louis Blues 7-3 St. Louis 20-20-9 50 29 New Jersey Devils 6-3 Los Angeles 21-20-9 51 31 Hartford Whalers 5-3 Los Angeles 22-20-9
February Game Date Opponent Score Location/attendance Record 52 2 Montreal Canadiens 1-5 Los Angeles 22-21-9 53 5 New York Rangers 7-5 Los Angeles 23-21-9 54 7 Philadelphia Flyers 4-4 Philadelphia 23-21-10 55 8 Washington Capitals 1-6 Washington 23-22-10 56 10 Pittsburgh Penguins 4-3 Pittsburgh 24-22-10 57 14 Boston Bruins 3-3 Los Angeles 24-22-11 58 16 Washington Capitals 5-2 Los Angeles 25-22-11 59 19 Quebec Nordiques 6-7 Quebec City 25-23-11 60 21 New Jersey Devils 5-3 New Jersey 26-23-11 61 23 Hartford Whalers 2-1 (OT) Hartford 27-23-11 62 24 Buffalo Sabres 4-2 Buffalo 28-23-11 63 27 Quebec Nordiques 2-5 Los Angeles 28-24-11
March Game Date Opponent Score Location/attendance Record 64 1 Edmonton Oilers 5-4 Edmonton 29-24-11 65 3 Calgary Flames 0-7 Calgary 29-25-11 66 5 Pittsburgh Penguins 6-0 Los Angeles 30-25-11 67 8 Vancouver Canucks 3-4 Vancouver 30-26-11 68 10 Buffalo Sabres 4-4 Los Angeles 30-26-12 69 13 Hartford Whalers 3-3 Los Angeles 30-26-13 70 16 Detroit Red Wings 8-3 Los Angeles 31-26-13 71 17 Edmonton Oilers 5-4 Los Angeles 32-26-13 72 19 New York Islanders 2-3 Uniondale 32-27-13 73 20 Detroit Red Wings 6-8 Detroit 32-28-13 74 23 Calgary Flames 3-4 Los Angeles 32-29-13 75 27 Calgary Flames 2-4 Los Angeles 32-30-13 76 29 Calgary Flames 0-3 Calgary 32-31-13 77 30 Minnesota North Stars 3-2 Los Angeles 33-31-13
April Game Date Opponent Score Location/attendance Record 78 2 Edmonton Oilers 4-6 Los Angeles 33-32-13 79 5 Vancouver Canucks 4-3 Vancouver 34-32-13 80 6 Vancouver Canucks 4-4 Los Angeles 34-32-14

Playoffs[]

1985 Smythe Division Semi-finals[]

Edmonton Oilers vs. Los Angeles Kings

Date	Away	Score	Home	Score	Notes
April 10	Los Angeles	2	Edmonton	3	(OT)
April 11	Los Angeles	2	Edmonton	4
April 13	Edmonton	4	Los Angeles	3	(OT)

Edmonton wins best-of-five series 3-0.

Player statistics[]

Regular season
Scoring
Player Pos GP G A Pts PIM +/- PPG SHG GWG Marcel Dionne C 80 46 80 126 46 11 16 1 2 Bernie Nicholls C 80 46 54 100 76 -4 15 0 6 Dave Taylor RW 79 41 51 92 132 13 11 2 6 Brian MacLellan LW 80 31 54 85 53 2 14 0 3 Jim Fox RW 79 30 53 83 10 4 6 0 2 Mark Hardy D 78 14 39 53 97 -20 8 1 2 Terry Ruskowski C 78 16 33 49 144 2 2 0 2 Doug Smith C 62 21 20 41 58 -15 3 1 1 Steve Shutt LW 59 16 25 41 10 -16 5 0 1 Craig Redmond D 79 6 33 39 57 -8 1 0 0 Garry Galley D 78 8 30 38 82 3 1 1 2 Phil Sykes LW 79 17 15 32 38 -18 1 2 2 Anders Hakansson LW 73 12 12 24 28 -4 1 1 1 Brian Engblom D 79 4 19 23 70 -2 3 0 0 Bob Miller C 63 4 16 20 35 -17 0 0 0 John Paul Kelly LW 73 8 10 18 55 -9 0 0 2 Rick Lapointe D 73 4 13 17 46 -10 0 0 1 Carl Mokosak LW 30 4 8 12 43 -8 0 0 0 Jay Wells D 77 2 9 11 185 4 0 0 0 Tiger Williams LW 12 4 3 7 43 0 0 0 0 Russ Anderson D 14 1 1 2 20 -2 0 0 0 Bob Janecyk G 51 0 2 2 27 0 0 0 0 Daryl Evans LW 7 1 0 1 2 2 0 0 0 Ken Hammond D 3 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 Bill O'Dwyer C 13 1 0 1 15 0 0 0 0 Charlie Simmer LW 5 1 0 1 4 -4 0 0 0 Darren Eliot G 33 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Steve Seguin W 5 0 0 0 9 -5 0 0 0 Brian Wilks C 2 0 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0
Goaltending
Player MIN GP W L T GA GAA SO Bob Janecyk 3002 51 22 21 8 183 3.66 2 Darren Eliot 1882 33 12 11 6 137 4.37 0 Team: 4884 80 34 32 14 320 3.93 2

Playoffs
Scoring
Player Pos GP G A Pts PIM +/- PPG SHG GWG Dave Taylor RW 3 2 2 4 8 0 0 0 0 Marcel Dionne C 3 1 2 3 2 -1 1 0 0 Bernie Nicholls C 3 1 1 2 9 -2 0 0 0 Terry Ruskowski C 3 0 2 2 0 -1 0 0 0 Garry Galley D 3 1 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 Craig Redmond D 3 1 0 1 2 -4 0 0 0 Doug Smith C 3 1 0 1 4 -2 0 0 0 Jim Fox RW 3 0 1 1 0 3 0 0 0 Mark Hardy D 3 0 1 1 2 -2 0 0 0 Brian MacLellan LW 3 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 Bob Miller C 2 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 Phil Sykes LW 3 0 1 1 4 -2 0 0 0 Jay Wells D 3 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 Brian Engblom D 3 0 0 0 2 -4 0 0 0 Anders Hakansson LW 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Ken Hammond D 3 0 0 0 4 1 0 0 0 Bob Janecyk G 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 John Paul Kelly LW 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Steve Shutt LW 3 0 0 0 4 -4 0 0 0 Tiger Williams LW 3 0 0 0 4 1 0 0 0
Goaltending
Player MIN GP W L GA GAA SO Bob Janecyk 184 3 0 3 10 3.26 0 Team: 184 3 0 3 10 3.26 0

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Awards and records[]

Records[]

Individual[]

• Most goals in a game, 4 (tied with many others): Bernie Nicholls, November 13, 1984, at Quebec

Team[]

• Most 30+ goal scorers in one season, 5: Marcel Dionne, Bernie Nicholls, Dave Taylor, Brian MacLellan, and Jim Fox
• Most 40+ goal scorers in one season, 3 (tied with 1980-81 Kings): Marcel Dionne (46), Bernie Nicholls (46), and Dave Taylor (41)
• Greatest margin of victory at home: 11: November 29, 1984, vs. Vancouver, 12-1
• Greatest margin of victory on the road: 7: October 21, 1984, at Vancouver, 10-3

Transactions[]

The Kings were involved in the following transactions during the 1984–85 season. ^[4]

Trades[]

June 9, 1984	To Los Angeles Kings Bob Janecyk 1st round pick in 1984 - Craig Redmond 3rd round pick in 1984 - John English 4th round pick in 1984 - Tom Glavine	To Chicago Black Hawks 1st round pick in 1984 - Ed Olczyk 4th round pick in 1984 - Tommy Eriksson
October 20, 1984	To Los Angeles Kings 1st round pick in 1985 - Dan Gratton	To Boston Bruins Charlie Simmer
November 18, 1984	To Los Angeles Kings Steve Shutt	To Montreal Canadiens 10th round pick in 1985 -
November 27, 1984	To Los Angeles Kings Cash	To Edmonton Oilers Dean Hopkins
March 12, 1985	To Los Angeles Kings Tiger Williams	To Detroit Red Wings Future considerations

Free agent signings[]

October 1, 1984	From Drummondville Voltigeurs (QMJHL) Steve Duchesne
October 9, 1984	From Kärpät (SM-liiga) Bob Miller
October 10, 1984	From Quebec Nordiques Rick Lapointe
November 8, 1984	From Hartford Whalers Stuart Smith
April 1, 1985	From RPI (NCAA) Ken Hammond

Free agents lost[]

July 11, 1984	To Washington Capitals Marc Chorney
August 24, 1984	To St. Louis Blues Kevin LaVallee
October 4, 1984	To Philadelphia Flyers Don Nachbaur
October 10, 1984	To Boston Bruins Dean Jenkins
February 21, 1985	To Edmonton Oilers Marco Baron

Draft picks[]

Round #	Pick #	Player	Position	Nationality	College/junior/club team
1	6	Craig Redmond	Defence	Canada	University of Denver (WCHA)
2	24	Brian Wilks	Centre	Canada	Kitchener Rangers (OHL)
3	48	John English	Defence	Canada	Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds (OHL)
4	69	Tom Glavine	Centre	United States	Billerica High School (Massachusetts)
5	87	David Grannis	Left wing	United States	South St. Paul High School (Minnesota)
6	108	Greg Strome	Goaltender	Canada	University of North Dakota (WCHA)
7	129	Timothy Hanley	Centre	United States	Deerfield Academy (Massachusetts)
8	150	Shannon Deegan	Centre	Canada	University of Vermont (ECAC)
9	171	Luc Robitaille	Left wing	Canada	Hull Olympiques (QMJHL)
10	191	Jeff Crossman	Centre	Canada	Western Michigan University (CCHA)
11	212	Paul Kenny	Goaltender	Canada	Cornwall Royals (OHL)
12	232		Left Wing	Canada	Belleville Bulls (OHL)

References[]

• Kings on Hockey Database