Rooted in the depths of the NHL standings — entirely on merit — is not where Kings President Luc Robitaille expected his team would be sitting at the start of the All-Star break and bye week.
“When we set out and we did our work at the end of last year and you take out that we missed Jeff Carter for over 50 games and we got 98 points, we kind of based this season off of that team,” Robitaille said. “And that was the reasoning for adding a player like Ilya Kovalchuk that would hopefully help us get a few more goals.