25 Facts About Luc Robitaille

Luc Robitaille currently serves as president of the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League .

In 2017, Luc Robitaille was named one of the "100 Greatest NHL Players" in history.

Luc Robitaille was drafted by the Los Angeles Kings in the ninth round, 171st overall, of the 1984 NHL Entry Draft.

Many hockey experts expected Luc Robitaille to be drafted late in the draft due to his poor skating ability.

Luc Robitaille himself has stated he had only had contact with one NHL team during his junior career, the Kings.

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Luc Robitaille happened to be attending the 1984 draft and later introduced himself to first-year Kings general manager Rogie Vachon.

Luc Robitaille played junior hockey for the Hull Olympiques of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League .

That year, Luc Robitaille set NHL records for most goals and points in a season by a left winger.

However, Luc Robitaille returned to his All-Star form, scoring no fewer than 36 goals and had the best stats of his career after his first stint with the Kings during those three seasons.

Luc Robitaille was named a second team all-star, his first post-season team honour since 1993.

Luc Robitaille turned down a one-year deal with a substantial pay cut by Kings GM Dave Taylor.

The Red Wings defeated the Avalanche in the Western Conference Finals in seven games, meaning that Luc Robitaille was going to the Stanley Cup Finals for the second time in his career.

At the direction of Red Wings captain Steve Yzerman, all of the teammates who had never previously won the Cup would hoist it after Yzerman, with Luc Robitaille being the third Red Wing to skate the Cup around Joe Louis Arena, after Yzerman and Hasek.

Luc Robitaille officially confirmed this the next day in a press conference held at the Toyota Sports Center in El Segundo, California.

Luc Robitaille wore the captain's "C" that normally belonged to defenceman Mattias Norstrom.

Luc Robitaille was the second shooter in the shootout, but his shot towards the upper-right corner of the net was stopped by the glove of goaltender Miikka Kiprusoff, despite being given an open five hole.

Luc Robitaille has won three Stanley Cup championships, in 2002 as the member of the Detroit Red Wings, and in 2012 and 2014 as president of operations with the Los Angeles Kings.

Luc Robitaille was up first for Canada and, despite losing the puck on his approach, was able to beat Jarmo Myllys to put the pressure on the Finns.

Luc Robitaille made an appearance on the FOX TV series Bones in the season 4 episode "Fire in the Ice".

Luc Robitaille appears as himself in an hallucination had by lead character Seeley Booth, when Booth is knocked out while playing in a recreational hockey game.

In Canada, Luc Robitaille appeared alongside New Jersey Devils goaltender Martin Brodeur in a Delissio frozen pizza commercial, where the two watch footage of Luc Robitaille's many goals against Brodeur while sharing a pizza.

Luc Robitaille made a cameo appearance as himself in the 1994 movie, D2: The Mighty Ducks, and voiced himself in the Phineas and Ferb episode "For Your Ice Only".

Luc Robitaille made a cameo appearance as himself in the 15th episode of the eighth season of the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother.

Luc Robitaille is featured, among other Canadian celebrities, in Underneath the Tunes, a parody of VH1's Behind the Music.

Luc Robitaille's stepson, Steven, is grandson of actor Steve McQueen and is an actor in the TV series The Vampire Diaries.

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