Things got worse before they got better for the Los Angeles Kings in their showdown with the New York Islanders. On the bright side, things did get better, albeit in an incredibly tense fashion. The Kings not only had to tie things up late, on the road, in the second half of a back-to-back, they had to survive the most dangerous of situations: a video review.
It was a heroic late effort, if only because the previous 17 minutes had put the Kings in a position to need that late heroism. Let’s not skip over LA’s great start, though.