A month ago, Jack Johnson was getting some good-natured grief from good buddy Drew Doughty. Something about barely having any goals over the past, oh, decade or so.
"What happened to you, man?" Doughty jabbed, per Johnson's recollection. "You used to score!"
He actually did. When both were kids with the Kings, both were seen as that sort of defenseman, though only Doughty, of course, would blossom with the offense.
And Johnson's response?
"Every since I got here, I just focus on the defense, " he'd say to Doughty. "And I'm good with that.