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    Helene Elliott: A bad back nearly cost the Kings' Gabe Vilardi his career. Now he's playing like a star.

    by Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times Nov 02, 2022 4 minutes
    Ilya Samsonov #35 of the Toronto Maple Leafs gives up a goal against the Los Angeles Kings in the second period at Crypto.com Arena on Oct. 29, 2022, in Los Angeles, California.

    LOS ANGELES — It's easy to forget, now that Kings forward Gabriel Vilardi is dominating entire shifts and controlling the puck as if it were magnetized to his stick, that a bad back nearly ended his career before it could truly begin.

    The problems that scared some NHL teams and led him to drop from a projected top-five pick in the 2017 draft to No. 11 lingered ominously, costing him precious training time and experience. He played about 80 games — the equivalent of one NHL season — over the next three seasons, through 2019-20.

    "There were several months — I wouldn't say years, but several months —

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