Stumpel on Pace for Best Season

With at least one point in 13 of the Kings’ 18 games, center Jozef Stumpel has been the team’s most consistent offensive player this season. Stumpel, who scored the Kings’ lone goal in a 4-1 loss to Montreal on Saturday, has seven points in his last six games. If he stays injury-free, he should pass the career-high 76 points he scored last season with the Boston Bruins.

Stumpel, who has seven goals and a team-high 20 points, is also on pace to score the highest point total for a King in four years. Wayne Gretzky led the NHL with 130 points in the 1993-94 season.

Yanic Perreault, who has a team-high nine goals, is on pace to give the Kings their highest goal scorer in four years. Perreault could reach the highest team total since Luc Robitaille scored 44 during the 1993-94 season.

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The Kings will play their next seven games against Western Conference opponents after starting off the season facing mostly Eastern Conference teams. They will continue their current six-game homestand Tuesday against the Vancouver Canucks and Mark Messier. . . . Robitaille will become the first NHL player to appear on the “Keenen Ivory Wayans” show Tuesday night at 11 on Channel 11. Robitaille will tape the show today at 5 p.m.