Q&A: Robitaille’s favorite moments

Question: If there was one moment you could re-live — not change the outcome, but just do it again — in your Kings career, what would it be?

ROBITAILLE: “A couple moments, I think. Obviously going to the Finals that year was very special. Every one of those playoff rounds was awesome. The first three rounds, we lost the first game and people were counting us out every round, and we kept battling back. That was an amazing group.

“Then I would say the year before I left to go to Detroit, that year I clearly remember that we were maybe eight points out in February, and we won maybe 21 of 24 games and tied a bunch. It was an amazing run, and then to beat Detroit after being down 2-0, believing in the locker room and battling and saying, `We have to get the first goal.’ Then obviously that 3-0 game, when we came back to beat them, and going all the way to Game 7 against Colorado.

“If you go back, it’s kind of funny because Colorado won the Cup that year, but there was a goal that was in, and Ray Bourque knocked it out of the air. When you see that one replay, that they didn’t have at the time, the puck was in. We would have been up 2-1. It was 1-1 at the time. Maybe that turns the whole series around. But that was a great memory. But that year — and I explain this to Tim Leiweke sometimes — that year there was as much buzz in our city about the Kings as ever. It was crazy. It just shows you that it doesn’t take much.”

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