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EL SEGUNDO >> Teddy Purcell was here once before. It was six years ago, but it seems as if it was only yesterday. The Kings’ training facility is the same now, but different. Many of the faces are familiar, making his homecoming all the more comfortable, the transition to a new team far easier. “The weight room has a retractable roof now,” Purcell said Saturday after the first of two practice sessions at the Kings’ workout facility. “It’s almost fuy when you hear about it, especially when you come from Edmonton and your car doesn’t start when you leave the rink.” No sub-zero temperatures are in the forecast in Southe Califoia, where summer seems endless. “I bought a beach cruiser,” Pu...

There’s no evidence Drew Doughty lost sleep over the Norris Trophy. When you’re done playing 28 minutes, 1 second per game in the NHL, you sleep through everything. If the Kings didn’t feel Doughty was already the best defenseman in the league, they wouldn’t have paid him $7 million last season. Nor would they have won the 2012 or 2014 Stanley Cups, or won a franchise-best 48 games in 2015-16. Still, there’s nothing like trophy in hand, or name on plaque, and Doughty finally held the Norris on Tuesday in Las Vegas. The Professional Hockey Writers gave him a clear win over Ottawa’s Erik Karlsson, who outscored Doughty by 31 points (82-51). Eriksson had won two Norrises based on what he did i...