He had four points in the Kings' win against the Vancouver Canucks in Game 3 of the first round. In the playoffs, Doughty tied for the NHL lead with 12 assists and was fifth with 16 points as the Kings won their first championship.
In , Doughty led all NHL defensemen in playoff scoring with 18 points five goals as the Kings won the Stanley Cup for the second time. The Kings named him alternate captain prior to the season, when he became the second player in franchise history to win the Norris Trophy Rob Blake, Among his accomplishments in international play, Doughty won gold with Canada at the World Junior Championship, where he was named the top defenseman in the tournament after getting four assists in seven games.
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Doughty, a London, Ontario native, grew up a displaced Kings fan who grew up wearing Wayne Gretzky and Kelly Hrudey sweaters as a child. I looked at my parents and kind of buried my face in my hands.
They were a little worried because they knew how bad I wanted to come here. Originally Kings general manager Dean Lombardi was hesitant to consider Doughty NHL-ready, even though he had tallied 50 points in 58 games with the Storm. I worked as hard as I could and got into those exhibition games and I thought I played well.
During his first nine games he averaged 19 minutes of ice time. Although the Kings considered sending him back to the OHL before his tenth game, they decided to keep their dynamic blueliner in LA, effectively terminating his relationship with the Storm. There are certain plays that took me a while that he gets automatically. In major bantam I was still a forward but I played defense in training camp because we were short "D-men", and the coach ended up thinking I could become a better defenseman than forward.
He decided to try me out and I would still play forward on some power-plays. I guess it worked out for the best. On getting his start in hockey: Ever since I was little I just always loved the game. I remember playing in the basement with my dad or my mom and I know that ever since I was little I loved the game.
Wayne Gretzky was one of my idols when I was younger. I know I would cry sometimes when I was younger when my parents would make me go to bed before his game was over. Really, that's who I modeled my game after, and I really could not have done it without my family without a doubt. My parents were always there for me and my grandparents, and they did everything they could to get me here.
On the biggest influences in his career: My parents have just been there for me. They took time off work, they took days out of their way and just drove me places to get to hockey and my grandparents were always there and helped us pay for everything and it was pretty expensive when were younger.
I've had many, many coaches along the way that were very key to my success: Brad Ostrom was the one who transferred me from forward to defense; and my skating coach, Carol Robinson — I still skate with her to this day and she's helped me a lot through the days.
It's such a great honor to put on that Canadian jersey every time, and fortunately I've been able to put it on a few times. That Super Series was a great stepping stone in my career — it taught me a lot about the game and playing for Canada and how big it is. This past Christmas, playing in the World Junior tournament — there's nothing else like it.
All the pressure that we had on us and all the stuff that we had to go through was just really hard to overcome, and we ended up doing that. Winning that gold medal was just the best. On winning the World Junior Championships in overtime: I was just getting off the ice. I had just made the change and so I didn't even see the goal go in or anything. I had my back to the play and I kind of just heard the fans yell and looked and saw us all getting off the bench so I just jumped over the bench, skated as hard as I ever have to that pile and it was just amazing.
On the importance of chemistry to a hockey team: It chemistry is the most important thing I think — bonding as a team was very key to our success with Team Canada. We had many streaks going and we knew we had all the pressure of all the fans back home and we even had tons and tons of fans there. So just gelling as a team and building after our one loss was just amazing. And it's very important and I think that's why we probably won is because we stayed positive as a team and we were just so good buddies and I know we all still talk to this day.
So learning from that experience, I really just tried to take it back to Guelph and be a leader there and I know in Guelph we are probably the tightest we've been in the last three years so it's been great to have that on our team.
When I was younger I was debating whether or not to quit and go back to house league to become a goalie; I wanted to become it that bad. But, I would say Wayne Gretzky was probably my main guy that I always tried to be when I was playing, I always pretended I was him and wear his jersey and do everything I could to become more like him. On the possibility of shooting against Martin Brodeur, his favorite goaltender one day: I don't even know what it would feel like to score on Martin Brodeur, it would just be awesome.
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