Were you fooled by the Dallas game? It’s okay to admit you were. I’ll own up to it, I completely bought into the idea that maybe, as the season hurtles down the end stretch, the Kings had committed themselves as an entity to actually playing with pace and responsibility in their own zone.
Sorry. My bad.
In complete opposition to the controlled, nearly-perfect game the Kings played against the Stars, the Kings came out and gave up three (okay, four) goals in the first period. And Nashville’s such a defensively sound team that a three-goal lead is basically death.