EL SEGUNDO – Kings president Luc Robitaille is back from life on the trail, the vaunted Camino de Santiago, and more recently, another journey of discovery, the NHL Draft combine in Buffalo. (The Kings will have three selections in the top 33.)



This past week, Robitaille sat down with The Athletic to review the offseason thus far and what may lie ahead for the franchise.



Often, when a team or a business finishes a quarter or a fiscal year, they review the results, good and bad. Have you gone through a thorough deconstruction of what happened and did you emerge with any new conclusions?



We studied the way our team played from November on and there were no surprises about where we finished and what we needed to look at. We knew a long time ago the direction that we’re going and we’ve been preparing for that for a while.



We knew probably by the end of next season, we’d have to make some drastic changes. The way our team...