We are two weeks into the Stanley Cup Playoffs and many fans of the Los Angeles Kings are still trying to figure out what went wrong. How did the Kings miss the playoffs? Clearly there were several factors that lead to LA being unable to defend their crown (if you do not remember, the Kings won the Stanley Cup in 2014, FYI).
Rink Royalty Editor Eric Fleischmann recently put it out there that the lack of scoring is what doomed the Kings. It is hard to disagree with that when LA was 18th in scoring this past season with only 2.