If you’re rooting for the tank and for a greater shot at Jack Hughes or Kaapo Kakko or any of the other names climbing the top prospects list, this was not the game you wanted. You wanted a reprise of the hapless Kings that came out flat against New Jersey the other day.
I get it. It’s not often you get a shot at a grade-A, potentially franchise-defining prospect. I totally get it.
But for the rest of us: oh heck did this game feel good.
Five goals? They’ve only done that once before this season, in the November 25th game against the Oilers.