In Anze Kopitar's sixth and Drew Doughty's fourth NHL season with the Los Angeles Kings, they won the Stanley Cup. 

By the time Doughty was 24 and Kopitar was 26 they had both won two championships. Both players were at the top of the league in their respective positions. Kopitar was in the discussion under generational talent Sidney Crosby and three-time Stanley Cup Champion Jonathan Toews. Doughty had become a perennial Norris candidate.

These two, who helped deliver a culture of success, have yet to repeat that postseason success. In five postseason berths since their Stanley Cup final victory in 2014, they have been dispatched in the first round each time. 

That culture of success has all but dissipated. 

This season, Kopitar will be turning 37, and Doughty, 35. The franchise's two first-ballot Hall of Famers are still the most relied upon player and will be accompanied by Trevor Lewis as the oldest players on the roster. 

These two still have game—that's without question. Whether or not Kopitar can reproduce the Hart finalist performance of his 2017-18 92-point campaign is clear-cut. That's not going to happen. Kopitar can still produce 50+ points in a top center role, though his ability to play that role should be utilized more efficiently.

It remains to be seen whether he will see fewer minutes next season, though that is a need for the franchise moving forward.

Doughty has hummed along. After his Norris campaign in 2016, Doughty has remained highly reliable in all situations, though his offensive flair looked to be receding. All signs of recession were expunged the last two seasons, particularly last season, when he racked up 15 goals, one short of his career high. 

Doughty has produced back-to-back 50+ point seasons, breaking a drought of four seasons that failed to break the same mark. 

Unlike Kopitar, all signs point to Doughty possibly playing more minutes next season. Here's why.

Matt Roy is a tough loss. The Kings, options to replace Doughty's minutes rely on significant roles being given to two players 23-and-under in Jordan Spence and Brandt Clarke and LA has been reluctant to give those kinds of roles to young players in the past.

Add in Joel Edmundson, and a changing of the guard seems unlikely this season.

The Kings squad assembled looks to be a miserable team to play against, but maybe lacks firepower up front. They have a long ways to go if they hope to finally breakthrough that first-round barrier.

Kopitar will be 39 in two seasons and at the end of his contract. Doughty will be 37 and hopefully not playing the role of number one defenseman. 

That would mean Quinton Byfield and Brandt Clarke have emerged as the go-to players of this franchise. 

It is completely possible, but it is apparent that the last decade the Kings have been chasing one last run with their two Hall of Fame locks to no avail.

Only a few players get to lift the Stanley Cup. If both Kopitar and Doughty finish their careers with the Kings without another on, or at least another deep run, they will still have better careers than most and will have their numbers hanging at Crypto.com Arena.

However, with Father Time ever-present, I question if there's another run with the final holdovers from the Championship era,