Luc Robitaille

NORBERTVILLE, Canada - Madeleine Robitaille could have requested anything from her Hockey Hall of Fame son Luc and he would have moved mountains to give it to her, but that isn't her way. She and her husband, Claude, worked hard for all they had as they raised three kids in Montreal, Madeleine unfailingly elegant from her well-coiffed head to her stylish feet. "We always joke that everything she wears matches," said Luc, the Kings' president of business operations and dutiful son who calls his parents at least three times a week.

Kings great Luc Robitaille donated a 2012 Stanley Cup championship ring to the Hockey Hall of Fame on Wednesday, which added it to the Stanley Cup Championship display at the Hall in Toronto. "We are very grateful to the Los Angeles Kings organization, especially Luc Robitaille,” said Bill Hay, the chairman of the Hockey Hall of Fame.  “As chairman and CEO of the Hockey Hall of Fame, it's an honor to accept this Stanley Cup ring.  It will make a wonderful addition to our special Stanley Cup Ring exhibit.” The ring is featured in a display celebrating the current and past Stanley Cup champions, including the first-ever Stanley Cup ring (1893)

* High-scoring left wing for the Kings Get Your Motor Runnin': In the off season, on Friday, my wife, Stacia, and I ride our Harleys into Westwood--it's only a five-minute ride from home. First up is dinner at Mustache Cafe. You can't go wrong with the smoked chicken fettuccine. It's outstanding. Stacia loves the Cajun chicken salad, and we usually split the chocolate souffle for dessert. After dinner, it's back on the Harleys and over to catch a movie.

Tim Leiweke spent his last evening as president and chief executive of AEG watching the Galaxy defeat Costa Rica's Herediano at the Home Depot Center. Had the Kings been home Leiweke might have been at Staples Center, cheering from the corner season seats he bought so he could vent his passion more freely than he could in a remote suite. Leiweke, whose departure "by mutual agreement" was announced Thursday when the Anschutz Co. took AEG off the market, gladly became the face of the Kings and Galaxy and not only because owner Phil Anschutz stayed out of daily operations.

  Now that the Kings have won the Stanley Cup, Luc Robitaille has accomplished pretty much all there is to accomplish in the NHL. Now, how about an Emmy for voice work? The legendary Kings star and current president of business operations has a prominent role on the season premiere of the Disney Channel's animated children's show "Phineas and Ferb" on Friday night. "It was a lot of fun. The guys over there are big hockey fans. It was fun to be there," Robitaille told NHL.com.

Today, the White House. Tomorrow, the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto. It's an interesting itinerary that Luc Robitaille is following this week, and here's the rundown. On Tuesday, Robitaille, the Kings' president of business operations, accompanied the team to Washington, D.C., to join MLS champion the Galaxy in being honored by President Obama for winning their league titles. On Wednesday, Robitaille is scheduled to be in Toronto to present a 2012 Stanley Cup ring to the Hall of Fame to be included in a special Stanley Cup display.

Kings Hall of Fame member Luc Robitaille will make a cameo tonight on the hit television show "How I Met Your Mother. " Now president of business operations with the club, Robitaille is featured in a portion of the show where the cast is delighted to learn about a singer from the 1990s during a program called "Underneath the Tunes," a spoof of VH1's "Behind the Music. " The cast is enthralled, as many of us are, with the behind-the-scenes story of Robin Sparkles, a Canadian sensation.

Continuing our countdown of the 10 greatest  L.A. Kings  of all time, as chosen by Times readers. No. 3: Luc Robitialle (186 first-place votes, 10,054 points) Luc Robitaille joined the Kings in 1986 and won the Calder Trophy as the NHL's best first-year player after scoring 45 goals to go with 39 assists. Robitaille scored more than 40 goals in each of his first eight seasons, including three 50-plus seasons, and a career high of 63 in 1992-93, a season he was named team captain in place of injured superstar Wayne Gretzky.

A women's group recently named him one of the 10 most watchable men in the English-speaking world. He is represented by the William Morris Agency and dates an actress. And, though he plays for a team that ranks near the bottom of the National Hockey League in the standings and in attendance, he is the people's choice to start at left wing for the Campbell Conference tonight in the NHL All-Star game.

Nina McCormick snapped a picture, then walked up to the athletic-looking guy holding the big silver cup in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater, and asked, "What's your name?" "Luc Robitaille," the man replied, with a grin. And the cup's name is Stanley. Stanley Cup. The real one that they gave to the Detroit Red Wings this past season. McCormick, who hails from the Motor City, blushed redder than her hometown hockey team's insignia.

Jerry Buss was so strongly associated with the Lakers and their championships that it's easy to forget he was the Kings' second owner - and that they were more to him than a throw-in item when he bought the Lakers, the Forum, the Kings and a 13,000-acre ranch from Jack Kent Cooke in 1979. Buss was more of a basketball fan than a hockey fan, but he put a lot of time and money into stabilizing and promoting the Kings. Soon after he took over, he signed high-scoring forward Marcel Dionne to a six-year contract worth a then-astonishing $600,000 a year, a pattern he followed with his NBA team.

Kings Hall of Fame member Luc Robitaille will make a cameo tonight on the hit television show "How I Met Your Mother. " Now president of business operations with the club, Robitaille is featured in a portion of the show where the cast is delighted to learn about a singer from the 1990s during a program called "Underneath the Tunes," a spoof of VH1's "Behind the Music. " The cast is enthralled, as many of us are, with the behind-the-scenes story of Robin Sparkles, a Canadian sensation.

Before the Kings hoisted their 2012 Stanley Cup banner to the rafters of Staples Center, the biggest decision they had was choosing a company to make it. Luc Robitaille, the team's president of business operations, said the club decided to go with New England Banner & Flag in Watertown, Mass. "It was important to us that we did the right banner for our fans," Robitaille said. "So we took our time to choose the right company and it was important for us to choose a company who had some history and for us to choose a company that showed our brand the right way. " That led the Kings to Steve Viola in Watertown.

The Stanley Cup champion Kings took care of another bit of housekeeping -- an important one -- by finalizing the contract extensions of General Manager Dean Lombardi, Coach Darryl Sutter and executive Luc Robitaille on Friday morning. Lombardi also holds the title of team president and Robitaille is the team's president in charge of business operations. As reported earlier this week by The Times' Helene Elliott , Lombardi's four-year extension runs through the 2016-17 season.

  Now that the Kings have won the Stanley Cup, Luc Robitaille has accomplished pretty much all there is to accomplish in the NHL. Now, how about an Emmy for voice work? The legendary Kings star and current president of business operations has a prominent role on the season premiere of the Disney Channel's animated children's show "Phineas and Ferb" on Friday night. "It was a lot of fun. The guys over there are big hockey fans. It was fun to be there," Robitaille told NHL.com.

When David Courtney returned to the Kings for a second tour of duty in 1985 their staff was small enough to meet in a closet, which was no problem because that's where his office was located. Luc Robitaille, a scared rookie in 1986, vividly remembers his first encounter with the man whose warm, booming voice was a true reflection of the man himself. "He was our PR guy. He did video. He did a lot of things," said Robitaille, now Kings' president of business operations and one of many employees.

Champagne doesn't flow freely around the Kings' offices, what with the playoffs a distant memory and one Stanley Cup finals appearance since 1967, but two bottles sat in a bucket in their conference room Tuesday beside a cake decorated with ripe strawberries and the words "Congratulations Luc."

This was to be the night it would hit home that it wasn't a dream, that the Kings really did win the Stanley Cup. It was almost surreal while it unfolded. Their rampage through the playoffs was capped by a crazy celebration on the ice June 11, followed quickly by a parade and glimpses the next few months of the Cup sitting in someone's hayloft, shining at someone else's pool party or taking a boat ride against a distant and exotic backdrop. With fans and players reunited to watch the championship banner rise high above the ice at Staples Center there would have been a happy closure to a remarkable season.