"In the first [period] I maybe had a tricycle, had to take off the training wheels, but I think I found my footing back down the middle," said Byfield, whose work in the faceoff circle and defensively elicited plaudits from Coach Todd McLellan.
Yet drive down the middle was what the Kings expected from Pierre-Luc Dubois when they forced tectonic shifts in chemistry, personnel and salary-cap space to add a player who has often shown the sort of uninterested play without the puck that doomed former scoring champion Ilya Kovalchuk's calamitous and truncated tenure with the Kings.
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