The Kings are used to being in the red for October when it comes to injuries. The goal is stay in the hunt.
Dustin Brown will be sidelined indefinitely because of a broken finger, as Jeff Carter was sidelined for an extended period early last season. Again it involves a top-two scorer, Brown, who has sat out only 17 games since becoming a full-time player in the 2005-06 season.
“That’s pretty impressive in my books,” Anze Kopitar said. “To have him down, certainly it’s a bit of a handicap, of course, but we’ve dealt with that in the past.