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Anderson-Dolan is determined to stick around with the Kings this season

LOS ANGELES_The conversation was short. The news was not good.

Five games into his first NHL foray last fall, Los Angeles Kings forward Jaret Anderson-Dolan sat down with general manager Rob Blake. Weeks earlier, the 19-year-old, who was selected in the second round of the 2017 draft, had surprisingly made the team out of training camp.

But after having only one assist in the opening weeks of the season, he was told he'd be sent back to juniors for the rest of the 2018-19 season. A more permanent place in the NHL would have to wait.

Anderson-Dolan didn't flinch.

The competitor in him, of course, was disappointed. But the sharp, seasoned, serious side of his psyche - the part that has earned him plaudits and pushed

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