Before the arrival of Wayne Gretzky in 1988, a lot was made of the color of the Kings uniforms, especially as it relates to the yellow aspect of them. I didn’t mind them because I just wanted to play in the NHL.
I do remember Bruce McNall showing me a dark blue-and-silver-jersey that was going to be for the next year when he took over the team. This was the year before Gretzky arrived, and I said to him, ‘When I played juniors my last year we used to wear black-and-silver and Gretzky owned that team. You should look at those.’
At the All-Star Game that year, they did a story on me that Bruce saw. He noticed the jersey from my junior team and said, ‘Those are pretty nice.’ At the time I didn’t know he was trying to acquire Gretzky.
When he was talking to Wayne the following summer, he told Wayne he was going to change the team colors to those of the junior team Wayne owned. Wayne had changed the colors of that junior team too the prior year. It is kind of funny because that is how our color change took place. I was excited about getting new colors but I never minded the old colors because I was just happy to be in the NHL.
Los Angeles Kings - News: LUC ON WAYNE - 08/07/2008
LUC ON WAYNE (LAkINGS) 
