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The Slumping Los Angeles Kings

12/15/2014 at 10:15am EST

from Ken Campbell of The Hockey News,

If the Stanley Cup playoffs were to begin right now, the Los Angeles Kings would be in them by the skin of their teeth. They would have limped into the post-season with four losses in their past five. They would enter the tournament with their most productive players in terrible slumps – Anze Kopitar with one goal in his past 13 and Jeff Carter with one in his past 12. Nobody is talking about Drew Doughty as a candidate for the Norris Trophy and Marian Gaborik has alternated between being injured and ineffective.

They’d be preparing to play one of the league’s hottest teams, one that has nine wins in it’s past 10. That team would be the Chicago Blackhawks and we all know what happened when they faced each other last spring.

So how do you feel if you’re the Kings? Are you worried that, yet again, you’re spinning your wheels a third of the way through the season and your top players are not producing? Or do you take solace in the fact that your team defies all the conventional beliefs in hockey and actually does have a switch that it seems to be able to flip at its leisure?

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