Where to start? How about here:
The Los Angeles Kings were fortunate to have a bunch of wiggle room after the first two months of the season. It’s gone, and in most respects, they deserve to be almost exactly where they are now. They’re 13th in the league in points, but 16th in the league in 5v5 Goals For % and 18th in the league in 5v5 Scoring Chance For %, more befitting of where they are than their 5th-best goal differential would indicate. And we’ve seen enough of the Kings’ third periods to know that the goal differential might be the slightest bit misleading, given the times they’ve had to claw back from deficits.